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How to alert when a MS Cluster resources fails over to another node?

I am confused about something. I need to set up an alert for when my MS Cluster Resources failover from one to another. In NPM, I have each physical node defined, and also the cluster resource (the virtual client). Now, I am alerted if the resource itself goes down. But what I need to know is when it fails from one node to another. We have software that gets really unhappy when that happens, and we have to go soothe it's ruffled feathers. But since the resource did not actually go down, we have no way of knowing that the failover happened, until these other scheduled tasks fail miserably.

I've found forum posts that reference " HP Managements Agents (CPQCLUSTER-MIB table) 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.15.2.4.1", but I am totally confused as to what this means. I think this is a special SNMP MIB table, but I don't know where to get it, or if I already have it. And once I do get it, I don't know how to set an alert that uses it.

SO: does anyone have a (step-by-step) example of a failover alert that they could share?

(these would be mostly Win2008 and SQL 2008 clusters - my issues are mostly with the SQL cluster moving from one node to another)

My versions: Orion Core 2011.2.2, SAM 5.0.0, NPM 10.2.2, IVIM 1.2.0

Thanks

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aLTeReGo

Have you looked at our Windows Cluster templates?

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster

PHA

Since I did not have these templates, nor did I know about them ... no, I

haven't looked at them yet.

Thanks! I will start from here. One last question ... how do you set the

monitoring to generate an email, when the condition is triggered? Isn't

that a function of the alerts, and not these application monitor

templates? Or am horribly confused?

aLTeReGo

Correct, this is a function of the Advanced Alert Manager. You can define in the application template thresholds but all alerting criteria is handled within the Advanced Alert Manager.

PHA

That's what I thought. And that's what I don't understand - how in the

Alerting Manager do I define these triggers. Perhaps I am posting in the

wrong forum, but when I go to create a new alert, what I am seeing (when I

choose "APM: Application" or "APM:Component" as the property to monitor, I

am not seeing anything that seems to be what I need).

So should I go look for an Alert forum, or is there something I am not

understanding about what property to use, and what trigger of that

property, to get an email fired off to my DBAs?

Thanks for your help, and sorry if I am sounding completely clueless (I'm

only about 95% clueless, at this point ...). LOL