Reference Guide

56 Maintaining Your Cluster

Configure the networks:

• For your Private network, select

Allow the cluster to use this network

only

• For your Public network, select both

Allow the cluster to use this

network

and

Allow clients to connect through this network

• For any other network such as iSCSI network that might be

configured, select

Do not allow the cluster to use this network

Maintaining a Clustered Service or Application

You can take any of your clustered service or applications offline to perform

maintenance or diagnostics. The cluster service ensures that all the

dependencies are met before making a clustered service or application Online

or Offline.

To bring a Clustered service or application Online or Offline:

To open the Failover Cluster Management console, click

Start

→

Administrative Tools

Under

Services and Applications

, navigate to the service or application

you want to take online or offline.

Right-click on the service or application and select from the following

option:

•

Bring this service or application online

• Take this service or application offline

NOTE: To monitor the events for the service or application, right-click on a service

or application, select the Show the critical events for this application. A list of

critical errors that have occurred on this service or application is displayed.

Starting or Stopping Cluster Service on Cluster

Nodes

Failover Clustering allows you to stop and restart the Cluster Service on a

node for troubleshooting or maintenance operations on the node. All

applications or services hosted on that node fails to the other node when you

stop the cluster service.