Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator Service on a Cluster Health Monitor (Start the Cluster service and then start MSDTC)

Microsoft.MSDTC.6.3.MicrosoftDistributedTransactionCoordinatorServiceonaCluster.Application.StarttheClusterserviceandthenstartMSDTC (UnitMonitor)

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator Service on a Cluster

You can run the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator service (MSDTC) as a clustered resource on a failover cluster server for increased reliability, based on the failover capabilities of the clustered servers.

Causes

The cluster service needs to be started and MSDTC needs to be started.

Resolutions

Start the Cluster service, and then start MSDTC

The Cluster service must be running before you can start a clustered instance of the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator service (MSDTC).

Administrators

To restart the Cluster service on a node:

To open the Failover Cluster Management snap-in, click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Failover Cluster Management. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.
If the cluster that you want to manage does not appear in the Failover Cluster Management snap-in, in the console tree right-click Failover Cluster Management, click Manage a Cluster, and then select or specify the cluster that you want.
If the console tree is collapsed, expand the tree under the cluster that you want to manage.
Expand the console tree under Nodes.
Right-click the node that you want to start, and then click More Actions. If Stop Cluster Service is available, click it. Otherwise, go to the next step.
Right-click the node that you want to start, click More Actions, and then click Start Cluster Service.
If other nodes are not started, repeat the previous two steps for those nodes.

To start the clustered MSDTC:

Open the failover cluster snap-in as described in the previous procedure. Instead of expanding the console tree under Nodes, expand the console tree under Services and Applications.
In the console tree, click the clustered MSDTC. In the details pane, the status of the resources in the clustered MSDTC appears.
Under Actions, click Bring this service or application online. In the details pane, confirm that the status of the clustered resources changes to Online.

Element properties:

Target

Microsoft.MSDTC.6.3.Servers

Parent Monitor

System.Health.ConfigurationState

Category

StateCollection

Enabled

True

Alert Generate

True

Alert Severity

MatchMonitorHealth

Alert Priority

Normal

Alert Auto Resolve

True

Monitor Type

Microsoft.Windows.2SingleEventLog2StateMonitorType

Remotable

True

Accessibility

Public

Alert Message

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator Service on a Cluster Alert (Start the Cluster service and then start MSDTC)

RunAs

Default

Source Code:

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