Cluster Management Applications
A cluster management application is a type of cluster-aware application designed to provide a user interface for monitoring or controlling at least one aspect of a failover cluster. This covers a wide range of functionality, from single-purpose monitoring tools that simply display status information about one or more cluster objects, to full-featured administration interfaces such as failover cluster cmdlets.
Windows Server 2008: The Cluster.exe command is available as a full-featured administration interface.
To create a cluster management application:
Choose the Failover Cluster API as the basis for your application.
Windows Server 2008: The Cluster Automation Server can alternatively be used as the basis for your application. The Cluster Automation Server does not provide access to cluster events (see Receiving Cluster Events).
Decide what aspects of the cluster you want to expose to users. For example, you might want to create a "read-only" interface that only allows users to monitor information about the cluster.
Review the following tasks and determine what kinds of interactions your application needs to implement: