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Figure 2 - Intelligent Cluster Administrator History Screen The Intelligent Cluster Administrator is an easy-to-use cluster administration tool that provides the administrator a single point of control for all MSCS clusters in the enterprise. It significantly reduces the time consuming and complex task of administrating clusters by allowing users to monitor and manage a Compaq Proliant Cluster from either an Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator browser. Its strength lies in its ability to check for cluster destabilizing conditions and then allowing the administrator to dynamically reallocate the resources of the cluster to alleviate a destabilizing situation. It also offers the added flexibility of performing these actions remotely without causing a cluster failover. The Intelligent Cluster Administrator performs all of the administration tasks found in the console based "Cluadmin" product shipped with Microsoft Cluster Server. By selecting a configuration entry from the tree structure, the administrator can:  add/change/delete a group or resource  start/stop a service, a node, a cluster  transfer a service from one node to another  evict node from a cluster The remote web based access frees administrators from being tied to a particular console or area, helps reduce administration time and reduces the number of active console program resources. From the main Intelligent Cluster Administrator screen, any administrator can efficiently create new cluster configurations, model them against existing configurations, and deploy the configurations to the same cluster or to another HARVARD RESEARCH GROUP  Box 297  HARVARD, MA 01451 USA  http:/www.hrgresearch.com 8