Installing Cluster Administrator on a remote computer

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Installing Cluster Administrator on a remote computer

You can use Cluster Administrator to remotely administer a server cluster. Cluster Administrator runs on any computer that is running Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 or later, Windows 2000, or a Windows Server 2003 family operating system. You can use Cluster Administrator on any computer running Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 family operating system to remotely create, join nodes, or manage a server cluster. On computers running Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 or later, you can use Cluster Administrator just to remotely manage a server cluster.

Important

  • Computers used to remotely administer a server cluster must be secure and restricted to trusted personnel. For more information, see Best practices for securing server clusters.

  • When you remotely manage a cluster using Cluster Administrator or cluster.exe, you must verify that NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) is enabled on the client. For more information on enabling NetBIOS over TCP/IP, see Configure TCP/IP settings.

You use Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools to install Cluster Administrator on computers that are running Windows Server 2003 family operating systems that are not cluster nodes. On Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition; Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition; or Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition, Cluster Administrator is installed when you install the operating system. For more information on Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools, see Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools Pack Overview.

You cannot use Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools to install Cluster Administrator on a computer running Windows NT 4.0. However, if you have the version of Cluster Administrator that was provided with Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition 4.0, you can use that version from any Windows NT 4.0, Service Pack 3 or later computer to administer a cluster running Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition or Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition. Because Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition and Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition provide resource types that were not supported in Windows NT 4.0, you might see error messages if you administer a cluster running Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition or Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition from a computer running Windows NT 4.0.

If you are adding or removing users from the list of those who can administer a cluster, or otherwise changing the cluster security descriptor, the server from which you run Cluster Administrator must run one of the following versions of the operating system and service pack:

  • Windows Server 2003

  • Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1

  • A product in the Windows 2000 Server family with Service Pack 2 or later

Caution

  • When remotely managing a server cluster from another computer, the system default locale on that remote computer can be different from the system default locale on all the nodes in the cluster only if the names of the cluster and all the cluster nodes use English language characters. For more information on changing the system default locale, see Change number, currency, time, and date settings.