Stop SQL Server service without failing it over. -- sql server clustering

sql server clustering : Stop SQL Server service without failing it over.

mostro
3/20/2006 3:03:29 PM

I'm setting up SQL Mail with Outlook and need to restart the SQL
services (mssqlserver and sql agent) on the server to complete the
configuration. I would like to do this without causing a failover. Has
anyone sucessfully used the commands below to make this work?

System: Windows 2003, SQL Server 2000 SP3..

cluster [cluster name] RESOURCE [resource name] /option

EX.
cluster mycluster RESOURCE "SQL Server" /offline
cluster mycluster RESOURCE "SQL Server Agent" /offline

then

cluster mycluster RESOURCE "SQL Server" /online
cluster mycluster RESOURCE "SQL Server Agent" /online

Thanks in advance

mostro
3/20/2006 4:57:13 PM

Really? Huh... How does one send smtp based alerts/notifications?

Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]
3/20/2006 5:34:33 PM

SQL Mail is not supported on a Cluster.

Cheers,

Rodney R. Fournier

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
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Geoff N. Hiten
3/21/2006 12:13:20 PM

First, SQL Mail is not SMTP based, it is MAPI based. Outlook is the only
existing MAPI client and it works very poorly as a service. Outlook is also
not cluster-aware, but some people have managed to get it to work by setting
up parallel installations on each node.

I prefer XPSMPT, a free third-party smtp connector for SQL Server 7.0 and
SQL 2000. SQL 2005 has its own smtp-based native connector..
http://www.sqldev.net/xp/xpsmtp.htm. This is not cluster-aware, but it can
be installed on each node very easily.

--
Geoff N. Hiten
Senior Database Administrator
Microsoft SQL Server MVP

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Lukas
3/22/2006 3:07:27 AM

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You can also use SQLOLE to send SMTP mail, here is a link to a article that
describes how to do this:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/viewscript.asp?scriptid=510

Hope this will help.

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