cluster diagnostic tool

Cluster Diagnostic Tool

Hello Guys,

I have been googling for long time to get hold of good guide for

cluster diagnostic tool published by MS. I ended up with one link

which gives only way how it works but it never tells you what it is

does and what are things which you use to make best of it. And what

you should never do. That fact that there aren't clear guidelines on

this tool I decided to explore the tool. You certainly can't explore

this tool on production enviornment so created a virtual server and

set cluster in i t.

CLUSDIAG: can be downloaded from Microsoft site or else if you have

resource tool kit installed for windows 2003 then you just need to go

to E:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools and double click

clusdiag.msi. Shortcut is automatically created for this tool on the

desktop.

Doubleclick the shortcut and start working on it. There are two things

in this tool, you can read logs of cluster online (live) or offline.

Live is pretty clear to understand and offline is nothing but copy

cluster log and paste it any directory and then point this tool to

pick log file from that location.

Online will be very useful in doing pre-production activities. It

gives you disk view and network view. In order to get disk view and

network view you will have to run the diagnostic test available under

Tools menu or simply press Ctrl+R.

Other useful feature of this tool is that you can bookmark and toggle

very easily between bookmarks which gives very clear view of what has

happened and will helps you in keeping tab of things. By default

filter is applied to these logs. You can remove the filter which is of

less use because cluster log file becomes more verbose and it is bit

of less use right now. To remove default filter navigate to View ->

Filer and clear (Shift+F4)

In the end you can also find error code, for example error code is 0

it means it was success, if the error code was 2 the source file

couldn't be located. In order to carry out this activity, open cluster

log file, search for word status and check what is the number infront

of it. Select only number (try not to select 0 it doesn't like it) and

go Tools and find win32 error it will give you what will decode the

error for you. Here you can try zero. J

Things which are mentioned above are steps which you would certainly

like to carry out only on test machine. I hope this log might be of

some help to all.

I'm finding ways how can I put images which makes this whole blog more

helpful.

When you open Clusdiag 1

When you open Online Log 1

Cluster Log file location 1

Cluster Log file view 1

Log file without filter 1#

Decode Win32 Error 1

If you try to click on Network View or Disk view without running the

test you are more likely to get this error.