Which tool should you use?

You have a failover cluster named Cluster1. A virtual machine named VM1 is a highly available
virtual machine that runs on Cluster1. A custom application named App1 runs on VM1. You need
to configure monitoring of VM1. If App1 adds an error entry to the Application event log, VM1 should
be automatically rebooted and moved to another cluster node. Which tool should you use?

You have a failover cluster named Cluster1. A virtual machine named VM1 is a highly available
virtual machine that runs on Cluster1. A custom application named App1 runs on VM1. You need
to configure monitoring of VM1. If App1 adds an error entry to the Application event log, VM1 should
be automatically rebooted and moved to another cluster node. Which tool should you use?

A.
Hyper-V Manager

B.
Failover Cluster Manager

C.
Server Manager

D.
Resource Monitor

Explanation:
Do you have a large number of virtualized workloads in your cluster? Have you been looking for a
solution that allows you to detect if any of the virtualized workloads in your cluster are behaving
abnormally? Would you like the cluster service to take recovery actions when these workloads are

in an unhealthy state? In Windows Server 2012/2016, there is a great new feature, in Failover
Clustering called “VM Monitoring”, which does exactly that — it allows you monitor the health state
of applications that are running within a virtual machine and then reports that to the host level so
that it can take recovery actions. VM Monitoring can be easily configured using the Failover Cluster
Manager through the following steps:
* Right click on the Virtual Machine role on which you want to configure monitoring.
* Select “More Actions” and then the “Configure Monitoring” options.
* You will then see a list of services that can be configured for monitoring using the Failover Cluster
Manager.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/clustering/2012/04/18/how-to-configure-vm-monitoring-inwindows-server-2012/



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PauliusP

PauliusP

In this case you will firstly use Powershell cmdlet Add-ClusterVMMonitoredItem from within the VM. Only then you will use FCM to set response to resource failure from VM properties.

From Safari books:
Although it is not available using the graphical interface, Event Viewer logs can also be monitored on your VMs using PowerShell. The necessary commands used to enable Event Viewer monitoring are a part of the Failover Clustering module and needs to be installed within the VM.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/failoverclusters/add-clustervmmonitoreditem?view=win10-ps