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Solomon
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:55 am Post subject:
cluster with IIS |
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I am running a two-node win2000 cluster with IIS configured as a cluster
service. On both nodes, the IIS admin/web services are set to automatic
startup. This was working fine for the longest time except a few days ago,
the IIS service on the inactive node started to complain in EV about not
being able to write log fies. This is expected because the active node has
the shared storage. However, we were not getting this error before. The
only thing that has changed is I moved the shared storage from one device to
another on our SAN. We also started to see a weird behavior where the
cluster is failing over to the inactive node for no apparent reason. We have
run IISSync several times.
Any idea what could be going on? Any resource that you could point me to
for further analysis would be great. |
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Russ Kaufmann
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:17 am Post subject:
Re: cluster with IIS |
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"Solomon" <Solomon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:50C97DFC-85B9-47AD-A81F-BD43E6AC79EE@microsoft.com...
| Quote: | I am running a two-node win2000 cluster with IIS configured as a cluster
service. On both nodes, the IIS admin/web services are set to automatic
startup.
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Aren't all clustered services supposed to be set to manual and the cluster
is supposed to start them on the active node only and start them on the
other node during fail overs?
| Quote: | This was working fine for the longest time except a few days ago,
the IIS service on the inactive node started to complain in EV about not
being able to write log fies. This is expected because the active node
has
the shared storage.
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Yep, it sure sounds like that explains it well.
| Quote: | However, we were not getting this error before.
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Perhaps the passive node had the web services stopped.
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only thing that has changed is I moved the shared storage from one device
to
another on our SAN. We also started to see a weird behavior where the
cluster is failing over to the inactive node for no apparent reason. We
have
run IISSync several times.
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IISSync isn't going to help with services being set incorrectly.
| Quote: | Any idea what could be going on? Any resource that you could point me to
for further analysis would be great.
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I would recommend going through the checklist
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/enterprise/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/enterprise/proddocs/en-us/sag_MSCScheck_19.asp
On a side note, is there any reason you are using server clustering instead
of NLB? |
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Solomon
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:01 am Post subject:
Re: cluster with IIS |
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"Russ Kaufmann" wrote:
| Quote: | "Solomon" <Solomon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:50C97DFC-85B9-47AD-A81F-BD43E6AC79EE@microsoft.com...
I am running a two-node win2000 cluster with IIS configured as a cluster
service. On both nodes, the IIS admin/web services are set to automatic
startup.
Aren't all clustered services supposed to be set to manual and the cluster
is supposed to start them on the active node only and start them on the
other node during fail overs?
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Yes, manual startup is recommended for cluster services with IIS being an
exception. From what I understand, leaving IIS as automatic makes the
cluster failover a lot quicker because IIS is already running on the other
node.
Besides, IIS was configured as automatic on both nodes and I didn't see
these errors before.
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This was working fine for the longest time except a few days ago,
the IIS service on the inactive node started to complain in EV about not
being able to write log fies. This is expected because the active node
has
the shared storage.
Yep, it sure sounds like that explains it well.
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No, it doesn't. Why was it working without complaining before?
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However, we were not getting this error before.
Perhaps the passive node had the web services stopped.
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Both nodes have IIS running. As a matter of fact, I have another cluster
similarly configured and no complaints there by IIS. IIS running on both
nodes.
This is for 2003, my posting says Win2000. The vbs scripts mentioned on
this article don't exist in 2000.
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On a side note, is there any reason you are using server clustering instead
of NLB?
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Clustering was pushed on us by the admin of the box at that time, but we did
try to fight it.
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Russ Kaufmann
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:09 pm Post subject:
Re: cluster with IIS |
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"Solomon" <Solomon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FABD47A7-E981-4EF1-9072-FFE190CB8433@microsoft.com...
| Quote: | This was working fine for the longest time except a few days ago,
the IIS service on the inactive node started to complain in EV about
not
being able to write log fies. This is expected because the active node
has
the shared storage.
Yep, it sure sounds like that explains it well.
No, it doesn't. Why was it working without complaining before?
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I can think of many scenarios where one of the automatic services wasn't
started. After all, you said that you changed over the storage which
probably means that you moved resources around. I will do some digging to
see if I can replicate it as I am also doing a media (shared storage)
migration to a new frame tonight.
Good luck. |
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