Microsoft Cluster Server - Change History

TKU February 2010

Added an extra (and primary) method to obtain a cluster name (WMI query).

TKU March 2010

The cluster now has an id attribute instead of cluster_id.

TKU September 2011

The following improvements were made:

• Added versioning support for Cluster Server SI.
• Added a cluster_name attribute to the Cluster node and made it consistent with other patterns that model Cluster nodes and SIs.

TKU February 2017

The following improvements were made:

• Added a type attribute to the ClusterService for "SQL Server Availability Group".
• Enhanced the execution of WMI queries by making sure that __RELPATH has always been one of the returned attributes and that it has never been the only attribute.

TKU April 2017

Simplified the cluster node's name attribute.

TKU May 2017

Resolved an issue related to handling WMI queries in BMC Discovery version 11.x.

TKU August 2017

Updated the pattern to report the cluster name in lowercase.

TKU January 2018

Added support for MS Cluster 2003.

TKU May 2018

Added the Cluster FQDN attribute to the Cluster.

TKU November 2019

Deprecated the use of ClusterResources in "Available Storage" ClusterService nodes.

TKU November 2020

Updated versioning.

TKU March 2021

Added a type attribute to ClusterMember nodes.

TKU April 2021

Optimized the code to model ClusterMembers and ClusterServices.

TKU May 2021

The following improvements were made:

• Added a link to the related Resource Hosting Subsystem (rhs.exe) process.
• Added extraction of information about possible owners for cluster resources.
• Added modeling of 'Microsoft Failover Group' Cluster. It is needed when resources (such as SQL Server) are configured to run and failover only on a subset of cluster nodes.

TKU October 2024

In TKU October 2024 we improved the ageing for ClusterService nodes