Cluster Server Is Not Configured Properly After Performing an Unattended Setup

• Microsoft Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition version 4.0, used with:
  • Microsoft Cluster Server

SYMPTOMS

When you perform an unattended setup of Cluster Server with multiple network connections declared for client access, Setup may not automatically choose the optimum network connection for the "Cluster IP address" resource. Instead, Setup may use the first network connection that is declared available for client access.

CAUSE

This problem can occur if you have declared more than one network connection as available for client access.

RESOLUTION

To work around this problem:

1. Declare only one network connection as available for client access.



2. Declare all other network connections as "For internal communications only".



3. After Setup has finished, use the command-line tool Cluster.exe to declare any additional network connections.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about declaring network connections, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q174794 How to Change Network Priority in a Cluster

Q174945 How to Prevent MSCS from Using Specific Networks

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbnetwork kbsetup
Version : winnt:4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbprb