Cluster failover issue 1

[kenwalters]

I have a three node Exchange 2003 back end cluster. All three nodes are running Windows 2003 Enterprise SP 2, and Exchange 2003 SP2.
I cannot move either of the two Exchange Virtual Servers to one of the physical servers. The SMTP resource keeps failing. This all started last week.
The Event logs only show a failure and the service starting and stopping on the physical server nothing more. It appears to take about 45 seconds, or so , for the service to completely stop.
Has anyone run into this same kind of situation?

 

[xmsre]

AV settings on the host can block the smtp service.

 

[kenwalters]

xmsre, thank you. That appears to be the issue. It looks like once a newer version of the AV, McAfee with EPO, was released to the servers the issue went away.