Event ID 1181 — DHCP or WINS Resource Availability

Applies To: Windows Server 2008 R2

For a clustered Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server to function, the clustered DHCP resource must be online. Similarly, for a clustered Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) server to function, the clustered WINS resource must be online.

Event Details

Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 1181
Source: Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering
Version: 6.1
Symbolic Name: NETRES_RESOURCE_START_ERROR
Message: Cluster resource '%1' cannot be brought online because the associated service failed to start. The service return code is '%2'. Please check for additional events associated with the service and ensure the service starts correctly.

Resolve

Confirm associated service started

Review event logs, including logs for the associated service, either Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) or Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), to determine whether an underlying problem exists. Use Services in Server Manager to view the appropriate service. When any underlying problems have been corrected, start or restart the associated service. For more information, see "Opening Services and viewing, stopping, or restarting a service."

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 each clustered server, and the account you use must be a domain account, or you must have been delegated the equivalent authority.

Opening Services and viewing, stopping, or restarting a service

To open Services and view, stop, or restart a service:

  1. 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.
  2. In the console tree, expand Configuration, and then click Services.
  3. In the center pane, scroll to the service you want to view, right-click the service, and then click Properties.
  4. View the status of the service. If needed, start or restart the service by clicking Start or by clicking Stop and then Start.

To open Event Viewer and view events related to failover clustering:

  1. 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.
  2. In the console tree, expand Diagnostics, expand Event Viewer, expand Windows Logs, and then click System.
  3. 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.
  4. 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:

  1. View the event, and note the error code.
  2. Look up more information about the error code in one of two ways:

Verify

To perform the following procedures, you must be a member of the local Administrators group on each clustered server, and the account you use must be a domain account, or you must have been delegated the equivalent authority.

Verifying that Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) resource or a Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) resource can come online

To verify that Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) resource or a Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) resource can come online:

  1. To open the failover cluster snap-in, click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Failover Cluster Management. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.
  2. In the Failover Cluster Management snap-in, if the cluster you want to manage is not displayed, in the console tree, right-click Failover Cluster Management, click Manage a Cluster, and then select or specify the cluster that you want.
  3. If the console tree is collapsed, expand the tree under the cluster you want to manage, and then expand Services and Applications.
  4. In the console tree, click a clustered service or application.
  5. In the center pane, view the status of the relevant resource.
  6. If a resource is offline, to bring it online, right-click the resource and then click Bring this resource online.

To perform a quick check on the status of a resource, you can run the following command.

Using a command to check the status of a resource in a failover cluster

To use a command to check the status of a resource in a failover cluster:

  1. On a node in the cluster, click Start, point to All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.

  2. Type:

    CLUSTER RESOURCE ResourceName /STATUS

    If you run the preceding command without specifying a resource name, status is displayed for all resources in the cluster.

DHCP or WINS Resource Availability

Failover Clustering