Correct way to add MS clusters to SIM

[Mazda]

What is the correct way? My cluster nodes turn in to virtual nodes, nodes disappear and I am constantly having to add nodes back in. Cluster monitor is enabled on the nodes...

[Greg Bates]

I have found that the only good way to monitor clusters in SIM is to manually discover the Physical nodes and the cluster IP (no virtual IP's), then remove all the IP's associated with the cluster from auto-discovery.

It is autodiscovery that ususally discovers the virtual node IP's and names and eventually will drop a physical node from SIM when it starts seeing the same IP's on more than one node. SIM gets confused and these server disappear. Very frustrating and I still fight it even though I manually manage all clusters in my environment.