Steven,

We have already written a script for customers:

TechNote: Automating Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) backups for
Exchange 2007
        http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21329825

Thanks,

Del

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 03/12/2009
06:46:50 PM:

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> Determining Active exchange node in Windows 2008 exchange CCR cluster
>
> Steven Harris
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> to:
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> ADSM-L
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> 03/12/2009 06:54 PM
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> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
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> Hi all
>
> This is only peripherally a TSM question,  but I'm hoping someone may
have
> come across it.
>
> I'm setting up TDP for Exchange backups on a Windows 2008 Exchange 2007
CCR
> cluster. This is a different way of doing things than the old MSCS
cluster.
> I intend to run VSS+TSM backups on the passive side of the cluster and
am
> writing some jscript code to run the underlying commands.  The only way
I
> can see to schedule this is to run the schedule on both of the cluster
> machines and perform a null op on the active side.
>
> So, how can I determine if the node I'm running on is active or passive?
 I
> can access WMI information from jscript but need to know precisely what
to
> interrogate.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Steve
>
> Steven Harris
> TSM Admin
> Sydney Australia