An action attempted as part of a task for the Volume Shadow Copy Service did not succeed. In Windows Server Backup, confirm that your scheduled backup tasks are properly configured. You might need to stop and restart a task.
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."
To perform the following procedures, you must be a member of the local Administrators group on the server where you want to open Windows Server Backup.
Opening Windows Server Backup
To open Windows Server Backup:
Click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Windows Server Backup.
Optionally, to view Help for Windows Server Backup, in the Action pane, click Help.
Opening Event Viewer and viewing events related to failover clustering
To open Event Viewer and view events related to failover clustering:
If Server Manager is not already open, click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.
In the console tree, expand Diagnostics, expand Event Viewer, expand Windows Logs, and then click System.
To filter the events so that only events with a Source of FailoverClustering are shown, in the Actions pane, click Filter Current Log. On the Filter tab, in the Event sources box, select FailoverClustering. Select other options as appropriate, and then click OK.
To sort the displayed events by date and time, in the center pane, click the Date and Time column heading.
Finding more information about the error codes that some event messages contain
To find more information about the error codes that some event messages contain:
View the event, and note the error code.
Look up more information about the error code in one of two ways:
Search System Error Codes ( http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83027).
Click Start, point to All Programs, click Accessories, click Command Prompt, and then type:
NET HELPMSG errorcode
Target | Microsoft.Windows.2008.Cluster.Monitoring.Service | ||
Category | Alert | ||
Enabled | True | ||
Alert Generate | True | ||
Alert Severity | Warning | ||
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 |
<Rule ID="Microsoft.Windows.2008.Cluster.Management.Monitoring.Volume.shadow.copy.service.task.resource.failed" Enabled="onEssentialMonitoring" Target="Clus2008Library!Microsoft.Windows.2008.Cluster.Monitoring.Service" ConfirmDelivery="true" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" DiscardLevel="100">
<Category>Alert</Category>
<DataSources>
<DataSource ID="DS" TypeID="Microsoft.Windows.2008.Cluster.EventProvider">
<Criteria>
<RegExExpression>
<ValueExpression>
<XPathQuery>EventDisplayNumber</XPathQuery>
</ValueExpression>
<Operator>MatchesRegularExpression</Operator>
<Pattern>^(4867|4866|4865|4864)$</Pattern>
</RegExExpression>
</Criteria>
<LogName>System</LogName>
<PublisherName>Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering</PublisherName>
</DataSource>
</DataSources>
<WriteActions>
<WriteAction ID="WA" TypeID="ClusLibrary!Microsoft.Windows.Cluster.GenerateAlertAction.SuppressedByDescription">
<Priority>1</Priority>
<Severity>1</Severity>
<AlertMessageId>$MPElement[Name="Microsoft.Windows.2008.Cluster.Management.Monitoring.Volume.shadow.copy.service.task.resource.failed.AlertMessage"]$</AlertMessageId>
</WriteAction>
</WriteActions>
</Rule>