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
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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 To 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 XOX; XOX; or XOX, Cluster Administrator is installed when you install the operating system. For more information on Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools, see Windows Server 2003 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 XOX or XOX. Because XOX and XOX provide resource types that were not supported in Windows NT 4.0, you might see error messages if you administer a cluster running XOX or XOX from a computer running Windows NT 4.0.
Caution
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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 To change number, currency, time, and date settings.
