Delay the start of a resource after start his dependence

Hello all,

I have a cluster with two nodes in W2003 ent. ed. SP2 and have some groups
that contains some resources...
In order of dependences (of a resource group)..

1.- Disk
2.- IP (depend of disk)
3.- Name (depend of IP)
4.- Share (depend of Name)
5.- Service A (depend of Share)
6.- Service B (depends of A)
7.- Service C (depends of A)
8.- Service D (Depends of A)

Then, i have a problem.. When the Service A, starts, internally this
service/application open some process in the server, this proceses give up
to 5 seconds to start.. But for all effects.. the service is right started..
The clustered services B, C, D and D, starts more quickly than the process
of the started service A..

Its possible to delay the start of a cluster resource (Services B, C, and
D) for a few seconds after the Service A is started? you now how to do it?


Thanks a million and kind regards.

I haven't tried this specifically but I think you could just create a
'generic application' resource that points to a *.bat file where all that
batch file does is sleep for X seconds. Then put that new resource in
between Service A and Service B,C,D in the dependency tree.
--
Jeff Hughes, MCSE
Senior Support Escalation Engineer
Microsoft Enterprise Platforms Support (Server Core/Cluster)


"Dtitusman" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello all,
>
> I have a cluster with two nodes in W2003 ent. ed. SP2 and have some groups
> that contains some resources...
> In order of dependences (of a resource group)..
>
> 1.- Disk
> 2.- IP (depend of disk)
> 3.- Name (depend of IP)
> 4.- Share (depend of Name)
> 5.- Service A (depend of Share)
> 6.- Service B (depends of A)
> 7.- Service C (depends of A)
> 8.- Service D (Depends of A)
>
> Then, i have a problem.. When the Service A, starts, internally this
> service/application open some process in the server, this proceses give up
> to 5 seconds to start.. But for all effects.. the service is right
> started..
> The clustered services B, C, D and D, starts more quickly than the
> process of the started service A..
>
> Its possible to delay the start of a cluster resource (Services B, C, and
> D) for a few seconds after the Service A is started? you now how to do it?
>
>
> Thanks a million and kind regards.
>