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date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:56:01 -0700,
group: microsoft.public.exchange2000.misc
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Re: Exchange services
I am not an expert at Exchange Clustering and never used Veritas's
Clustering Product so I would not rule out this totally. I did find this
link and paragraph interesting from Exchange Server Technet.
"In a cluster, the Cluster service is responsible for starting and stopping
Exchange services through EXRES.DLL. Because of this, an administrator
should not stop a service from the command-line, the Windows Services
snap-in, a Resource Kit tool, or a third-party application. When you stop a
service outside of the Cluster, the IsAlive call to that service fails,
causing the Cluster service to attempt a restart of the stopped service."
Now that being said, I would run NETDIAG from your Exchange Server to insure
good communication with your GC. I would also verify with Veritas how to
test the Cluster in case of failure.
Hope this helps. If not, please start another thread in the
microsoft.public.exchange2000.admin group as you will find more MVP's that
work with Clustering.
--
John Oliver, Jr.
MCSE, MCT, CCNA, Exchange MVP
Microsoft Certified Partner
"lonni3b" wrote in message
news:96E5E01B-3BAF-4271-88F0-871A73802C46@microsoft.com...
> Well exchange is clustered so I need to make sure that it will fail over
> and
> in a timely manner. Last night I left the System Attendant service in the
> stopping state and went home. This morning it was stopped with no errors
> in
> the event viewer. No idea how long it took but definetly too long.
>
> I have also isolated the server from the Veritas cluster, renamed it and
> disabled all the clustering software so I believe the problem is between
> the
> OS and exchange.
>
> "John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Why are you trying to stop these services in the first place?
>>
>> --
>> John Oliver, Jr.
>> MCSE, MCT, CCNA, Exchange MVP
>> Microsoft Certified Partner
>>
>> "lonni3b" wrote in message
>> news:2A668605-0750-424F-A7A6-0C5CD60DCD46@microsoft.com...
>> >I have a new installation of Exchange 2003 w sp1 that always freezes
>> >when
>> > stopping some exchange services. Problem services are:
>> > Microsoft Exchange MTA Stacks
>> > Microsoft Exchange Information Store (occasional)
>> > Microsoft Exchange System Attendant
>> > Microsoft Exchange Routing Engine
>> >
>> > No errors are produced, well unless I am not waiting long enough. But I
>> > did
>> > try waited 3 hours once. I can go into task manager and kill the
>> > process,
>> > doesn't seem to damage anything but any reason why this could be
>> > happening?
>> > The server is in a mixed 5.5 environment and is installed on a 2 node
>> > cluster
>> > using Veritas Storage foundation 4.2.
>> >
>> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> > Thanks
>> >
>>
>>
>>
date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:28:33 -0500
author: John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]
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