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Conference decwet::winnt-clusters

Title:WinNT-Clusters
Notice:Info directories moved to DECWET::SHARE1$:[NT_CLSTR]
Moderator:DECWET::CAPPELLOF
Created:Thu Oct 19 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:863
Total number of notes:3478

724.0. "Manual failover command line" by TAMIR::LANDSBERG (Internets success will also be its downfall) Wed Apr 02 1997 12:34

    Hello
    
    Does anyone have a clue how to initiate a  manual failover ,
    from the command line.
    
    I need this in order to locally backup a disk that is on the second
    Cluster node.
    The backup using the network is very slow, and I want to access the
    disk locally via failover.
    I would like to do it with a script that will run as part of the backup
    procedure.
    
    By the way I'm using NT Cluster 1.0 sp1.
    
    Regards,
    Tsvika Lavie 
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724.1cluxfer does manual failoverDECWET::CAPPELLOFMy other brain is a polymerWed Apr 02 1997 15:479
    In one of the releases of Digital Clusters, we added the "cluxfer"
    command to initiate manual failover.  Look in the release notes for
    documentation.  Syntax is:
    
    cluxfer GroupName NodeName
    
    where "GroupName" is the name of the group you want to failover, and
    "NodeName" is the name of the node where you want the group to come
    online.
724.2cluxfer.exeMSE1::MASTRANGELOWed Apr 02 1997 15:5217
    
    
    I'm pretty sure that the cluxfer.exe utility comes with SP1 for V1 but 
    I'm not certain.  Look in the \Digital\Clusters directory on one of 
    the machines and you should see cluxfer.exe in there.  If its not there
    you can get it if you install SP2 (or upgrade to V1.1).
    
    
    This is from the release notes.  
    
    2.12.1 Cluxfer Utility for Manual Failover from Batch File
    ---------------------------------------------------------
    The new cluxfer command line utility lets you start a manual 
    failover of a cluster failover group from within a batch file 
    or from an application. With this utility, you can transfer a 
    cluster failover group to a specific cluster node. See 
    Appendix A of the Administrator's Guide for details.
724.3IF EXISTS THEN FAILOVERNETRIX::"svi@tavosf.iso.dec.com"Tsvika LavieSun Apr 06 1997 07:2914
Hello,

Thanks for your help I'm going to use it.

Regarding to the Scripting questions, is there a way to check within the
script if the drive is "mounted" by one of the cluster members, before it
tries to failover it to the second member of the Cluster.

Thanks again,

Tsvika Lavie

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724.4test disk accessDECWET::LEESWill, NTSG DECwest, SeattleMon Apr 07 1997 18:284
If a disk device is not online on a system, uncached reads or writes will
return ERROR_NOT_READY.