Cluster Resources Can Be Configured to Restart Automatically (228923)

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With the Windows 2000 Plug and Play capabilities, for some resources, the problem occurs because of transient conditions in the environment (such as the unplugging of a network cable).

To correct this problem, the Cluster service attempts to restart a resource when there is a problem with the resource. The restart attempt occurs after a period of time specified by the resource's RetryPeriodOnFailure property.

This property can be configured only by using the Cluster.exe command-line tool.

On one of the nodes of the server cluster, start a command prompt and run the following command to view this property (and others associated with a cluster resource) where resource is the name of the resource.

To modify the RetryPeriodOnFailure value, run the following command where xxx is the time in milliseconds.

To maintain compatibility with with mixed-mode clusters of earlier versions, the default value of this property is disabled (0xFFFFFFFF). With the property set to this default value, the Cluster service never attempts to restart a resource once it is in a FAILED state. The RetryPeriodOnFailure value must be greater then the resource's "RestartPeriod" value. By default this value is 900000 ms or 15 minutes (this value can be modified). Intervals measured in minutes (multiples of 0x0000EA60) are recommended. This ensures that the Cluster service still honors the policy of not restarting a resource more than the number of times specified in the "RestartThreshold" value during the RestartPeriod.