Orphaned virtual servers

[Pat Wilson_1]

I have a few virtual servers on clustered Windows 2003 servers. They all 'discovered' normally, but after a few days two of them showed up as orphans (top portion of attached image). If I hovered over the 'Orphan_XX', the true name of the server was displayed. If I clicked the link I was taken to the information page of the server (bottom half of the attached image), which showed all the correct information.

I could ping the 'v001002' server, attach to it, I verified all the DNS info, but the CMS still showed a red "system unreachable" icon. If I went to "Edit System Properties" under the links tab, I could change the 'preferred system name', but it still came back as unreachable.

I tried to delete and re-discover these two servers (v001002 & v001003), but they almost seem to be mutually exclusive. If I discover v001002, then v001003 disappears from the All Systems list (and vice-versa). Which ever 'V' server displays, the hyperlink to the system information does not work (no response to click).

I'm thinking of deleting all the virtual server names and only monitoring the underlying cluster server hosts. Any other suggestions before I do that? Is it possible that this has happened because the cluster has changed active servers? (The reason I ask this is when it was working originally, the links on the 'Links' page would show the 'V' server name, but direct me to the active cluster server.)