If you do not currently have Event Viewer open, see "Opening Event Viewer and viewing events related to failover clustering." If the event contains an error code that you have not yet looked up, see "Finding more information about error codes that some event messages contain." After reviewing events, confirm that the following are true for the service used by the clustered Generic Service instance:
If all of the preceding items appear to be configured correctly, check Event Viewer for other errors related to the service to see what might be interfering with service startup.
To perform these procedures, you must be a member of the local Administrators group on the server, or you must have been delegated the equivalent authority.
To open Services and view installed services:
You can view the properties of the service by right-clicking it and then clicking Properties.
To view or change the service name and other settings for a clustered Generic Service instance:
To open Event Viewer and view events related to failover clustering:
To find more information about the error codes that some event messages contain:
NET HELPMSG errorcode
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Target | Microsoft.Windows.2008.Cluster.Monitoring.Service | ||
Category | Alert | ||
Enabled | True | ||
Alert Generate | True | ||
Alert Severity | Error | ||
Alert Priority | Normal | ||
Remotable | True | ||
Alert Message |
|
ID | Module Type | TypeId | RunAs |
---|---|---|---|
DS | DataSource | Microsoft.Windows.2008.Cluster.EventProvider | Default |
WA | WriteAction | Microsoft.Windows.Cluster.GenerateAlertAction.SuppressedByDescription | Default |
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<Category>Alert</Category>
<DataSources>
<DataSource ID="DS" TypeID="Microsoft.Windows.2008.Cluster.EventProvider">
<Criteria>
<SimpleExpression>
<ValueExpression>
<XPathQuery>EventDisplayNumber</XPathQuery>
</ValueExpression>
<Operator>Equal</Operator>
<ValueExpression>
<Value>1041</Value>
</ValueExpression>
</SimpleExpression>
</Criteria>
<LogName>System</LogName>
<PublisherName>Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering</PublisherName>
</DataSource>
</DataSources>
<WriteActions>
<WriteAction ID="WA" TypeID="ClusLibrary!Microsoft.Windows.Cluster.GenerateAlertAction.SuppressedByDescription">
<Priority>1</Priority>
<Severity>2</Severity>
<AlertMessageId>$MPElement[Name="Microsoft.Windows.2008.Cluster.Management.Monitoring.Generic.application.could.not.be.brought.online.due.to.a.service.startup.error.AlertMessage"]$</AlertMessageId>
</WriteAction>
</WriteActions>
</Rule>