DAG Cluster Failed to Resume Primary Active Manager

Question

_{Tuesday, June 19, 2012 11:13 PM}

Hi there,

I ran the StartDagServerMaintenance.ps1 script on our SiteA Exchange server then updated it and rebooted. SiteB Exchange server now has active Mailbox Database and is doing Client Access etc. After reboot of SiteA Exchange we had network issues and in the process of troubleshooting I deleted the network adapters from Device Manager, and ran netsh int ip reset, then reconfigured them with their static IP's, and static routes for the Replication network.

Site A MAPI Network - 192.168.1.0/24
Site B MAPI Network - 192.168.2.0/24

Site A Replication Network - 10.10.1.0/24
Site B Replication Network - 10.10.2.0/24

Each site has one Exchange Server running all Roles and is in DAC Mode, on Exchange 2010 SP2.

Right now I cannot run the StopDagServerMaintenance.ps1 script because it says

Failed to resume the ability of the server SiteA-EX1 to host the Primary Active Manager, 'cluster.exe /cluster:SiteA-EX1 node SiteA-EX1 /resume' returned 5050.

In the EMC, Organization-Mailbox-DAG Networks, DagNetwork03 and DagNetwork04 say subnet 192.168.1.0/24 and 10.10.1.0/24 are Down and Unavailable.

In Failover Cluster Manager, Cluster Network 3 and Cluster Network 4 are in Status: Down.

I can ping all the subnets and Exchange IP addresses from both Exchange server.

SiteA Database copy is Healthy and no copy count. SiteB is Mounted.

EDIT: Networks are all up, question now is how do I move the PAM to the SiteA?

I tried this command:

Cluster.exe DAG1 group "Cluster Group" /moveto:SiteA-EX1

I get System error 5012 has occurred
The cluster group cannot be found.

The AlternateWitnessShareInUse is the alternate in SiteB.

When I run the command "cluster group" I get this:

Group Node Status
Cluster Group SiteB-EX1 Online
Available Storage SiteB-EX1 Offline

I dont see the Node for SiteB.

All replies (7)

_{Tuesday, May 13, 2014 7:38 PM ✅Answered}

Start the Exchange Management Shell as administrator.

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_{Tuesday, May 13, 2014 7:58 PM ✅Answered}

Start the Exchange Management Shell as administrator.

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_{Tuesday, May 13, 2014 8:11 PM ✅Answered}

Indeed.

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_{Wednesday, May 14, 2014 3:41 PM ✅Answered}

I agree.

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_{Wednesday, June 20, 2012 5:21 AM}

I tried this command:

Cluster.exe DAG1 group "Cluster Group" /moveto:SiteA-EX1

I get System error 5012 has occurred
The cluster group cannot be found.

The AlternateWitnessShareInUse is the alternate in SiteB.

When I run the command "cluster group" I get this:

Group Node Status
Cluster Group SiteB-EX1 Online
Available Storage SiteB-EX1 Offline

I dont see the Node for SiteB.

Hi,

Have you tried to run Cluster Group "Cluster Group" /move

Martina Miskovic

_{Sunday, October 29, 2017 8:11 AM}

I also got the same issue 

Log-Error : Start-DagServerMaintenance: Failed to resume the ability of the server to h ost the Primary Active Manager, ‘cluster.exe /cluster:server node server /resume’ returned 5. At C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Scripts\StopDagServerMaintenance.ps1:125 char:13 + Log-Error <<<< ($StopDagServerMaintenance_LocalizedStrings.res_0008 -f $serverName,$serverName,$shortSer verName,$LastExitCode,"Start-DagServerMaintenance") -stop + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,Log-Error

After starting the exchange management console in administrative mode , It got Rectified

Regards Ali@Technet

_{Monday, October 30, 2017 2:05 AM}

Thanks for the giant font.

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