monitoring MSCS cluster on hyperV VM's

[Lee Duvall]

I'm just starting with HP SIM. I'm looking at monitoring my Hyper VM machines which so far it's doing a great job. HP Sim can see that two of the VM's are setup as a MSCS cluster and the cluster name, but when I try to use the cluster monitor I receive "Unable to retrieve the Microsoft Cluster Service data". I found old SIM 5.2 articles http://setspn.blogspot.com/2009/01/discovering-mscs-in-hp-sim.html. Though the file they reference does not exist. What might I be missing?

[Newton S]

MSCS on Physical servers can only be monitored in SIM. it monitors with the help of Insight management Agents (cluster extensions).

[fmash]

When you run an identify on your cluster name, do you see this:

Manager rule for sysObjID was found.
* Running SNMP base cluster identification using common cluster
MIB...
Normal: This system does not have the common cluster MIBs support.
* Running IPMI protocol identification...

Although later down in the identify, it may identify it as a MSCS using WBEM

[Lee Duvall]

FMash: I do see that exact info under the Identification tasks. Is this something that can be configured on the cluster or not available since I'm running it in the VM configuration?

[fmash]

I have the same issue with a 2008 R2 cluster. I followed some tips I found in other posts with manually adding cluster location reg keys etc but I have not got it working yet. I have 2003 clusters that work fine in the SIM and they are correctly identified as clusters via SNMP.

[Lee Duvall]

I'm seeing the issue with two 2003 VM's. I saw the registry fixes as well, but they references a file that didn't exist so no luck there either.

Time to keep digging! There's got to be a way to get this to work. :)