Using the Failover Cluster APIs
This section contains tasks that describe how to use the Failover Cluster APIs.
In this section
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Set up a development environment to perform development tasks with the Failover Cluster APIs.
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Create cluster resource types that allow clusters to manage new applications and devices.
This section contains information about:
- Deciding when to create resource DLLs
- How to implement resource DLLs for custom resource types
- How to deploy cluster resource types
- How to debug cluster resource types
- Using existing cluster resource types
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Create applications that interact with clusters to either manage clusters or increase the scalability and availability of the application.
This section contains information about:
- Managing cluster events
- Retrieving information from clusters
- Updating clusters
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Create scripts to manage and administer cluster remotely with the Cluster Automation Server.
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Use control codes to perform cluster operations, and how to create new control codes to support new component types.
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Open and close a handle to a cluster object.
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Create and parse value lists, property lists, and property tables.
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Information about code examples in the Failover Cluster API documentation, including an index to all of the code examples.
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Guidelines for using the Failover Cluster APIs.
This section contains information about:
- Choosing an API to perform a cluster operation
- Data conventions for programming elements
- Updating properties
- Obtaining object handles
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