Description
This course is the second part of a two part series that will provide participants the knowledge to install, configure, integrate, optimize and troubleshoot clustering technologies for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0.
Audience
This course is intended for IT support professionals who will be responsible for installing, configuring, customizing and/or troubleshooting Cluster Server. Participants should have taken Networking Essentials 2nd Edition (Course Series 71441-71444), Supporting Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Core Technologies (Course Series 71410-71413), Internetworking TCP/IP on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (Course Series 71435-71438) and the first course in the series.
Prerequisites
(Currently no course prerequisite information)
Objective
- Create groups and resources in a cluster.
- Configure the general, failover and failback configuration properties of a group.
- Configure a printer, an application and a service for Microsoft Cluster Server.
- Troubleshoot Microsoft Cluster Server.
Topics Include
Unit 1: Configure Group, Disk and Network Resource - Connect to a cluster by using Cluster Administration.
- Create a group in a cluster by using the New Group wizard.
- Create an IP address resource in a group by using the New Resource wizard.
- Create a network name resource in a group by using the New Resource wizard.
- Create a file share resource in a group by using the New Resource wizard.
- Change the state of resources and groups by using the menubar in the Cluster Administrator window.
- Initiate the failure of a resource by using the toolbar in the Cluster Administrator window.
- Transfer ownership in a cluster by using the toolbar in the Cluster Administrator window.
- Configure the general properties of a group by using the Cluster Server group configuration property page.
- Configure the failover properties of a group by using the Cluster Server group configuration property page.
- Configure the failback properties of a group by using the Cluster Server group configuration property page.
- Configure the general properties of a resource by using the Cluster Server resource configuration property page.
- Configure the dependency properties of a resource by using the Cluster Server resource configuration property page.
- Configure the advanced properties of a resource by using the Cluster Server resource configuration property page.
- Configure the settings for the file share resource type by using the Cluster Server resource configuration property page.
- Configure the IIS virtual root resource type by using the Cluster Server resource configuration property page.
- Configure the network name resource type by using the menubar in the Cluster Administrator window.
- Set the physical disk resource by using the Cluster Server resource configuration property page.
- Configure the IP address resource type by using the Cluster Server resource configuration property page.
- Configure the quorum log of a cluster for a new drive by using the Quorum property page.
- Configure the network connection of the Cluster Server service by using the Network property page.
Unit 2: Configure Printer, Application and Service - Sequence the steps for creating a cluster print server.
- Create a print spooler resource for a cluster.
- Create a printer share for the cluster.
- Configure a generic application resource.
- Identify the property pages you will use to configure a generic service resource for specific options.
- Identify the Microsoft BackOffice applications that can be configured to failover.
- Create a Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) resource by using Cluster Administrator.
- Identify the property pages you will use to configure a Microsoft Message Queue Server for specific options.
Unit 3: Troubleshooting Microsoft Cluster Server - Identify the Cluster Server node maintenance rules.
- Set cluster permissions by using Cluster Administrator.
- Match the cluster administration commands given from the command line with the functions they enable the administrator to perform.
- Match the troubleshooting tools available in Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition with their uses.
- Identify the rules for using the CLUSTERLOG environment variable.
- Match the cluster problems caused by SCSI controllers with their solutions.
- Identify the solutions for common SCSI termination problems.
- Identify the SCSI-cabling solution for a specified cluster requirement.
- Sequence the steps to recover from a corrupt quorum log in a quorum resource after Cluster service has been stopped on both the nodes.
- Match the problems caused by the incorrect installation of Cluster Server with their solutions.
- Match the group and resource failure problems with their solutions.
- Identify the Windows NT capabilities that allow Cluster Server to fail over an IP address without causing communication problems.
- Identify the requirements for effective name resolution and registration after a failover.
- Identify the activities performed to verify node-to-node communication.
Duration
8
Minimum Requirements
The CDROM version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
- At least a double speed CDROM drive.
- An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently, only the CDROM version supports audio).
The network version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
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