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Displaying event logs for a failover cluster – Dell AX4-5 User Manual

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Maintaining Your Cluster

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To stop or restart the cluster service on a node:

1 Right-click the node that you want to stop or restart in the Failover

Cluster Management console.

2 Click More Actions and select from either of the following options that are

displayed:

Stop Cluster Service

Start Cluster Service

Running chkdsk on a Clustered Disk in
Maintenance Mode

Failover Clustering allows you to put a disk in Maintenance mode without
taking the disk offline. The health monitoring on the disk turns off for a
period of time while maintenance is carried out on the disk. You can then
run chkdsk utility on the disk.

To put a disk in Maintenance mode:

1 To open the Failover Cluster Management console, click Start→

Administrative Tools.

2 Right-click the disk that you want to put on maintenance mode.
3 Click More Actions and select Turn On Maintenance Mode for this disk

option.

4 Ensure that the status of the disk is listed as Online (Maintenance) in

the MMC.

5 Run chkdsk utility on the disk.

Displaying Event Logs for a Failover Cluster

All cluster events can be viewed using the Failover Cluster Management
console for any node in your Failover Cluster. To display the event logs:

1 To open the Failover Cluster Management console, click Start→

Administrative Tools.

2 In the console tree, right-click Cluster Events, and then click Query.