Creating a service

You can create a service for Windows 2008 systems.

1. Click Start > Administrative Tools > Failover Cluster Management.
2. Expand Failover Cluster Management.
3. Expand Services and Applications and right-click the SQL instance that you want to configure.
4. Click Add a resource > Generic Service. The New Resource Wizard opens.
5. On the Select Service page, select Monitoring Agent for Microsoft SQL Server, and click Next.
   Note: To add the Microsoft SQL Server- Collector service, select Monitoring Agent for Microsoft SQL Server- Collector instance_name on the Select Service page, and click Next.
6. On the Confirmation page, check the details, and click Next.
7. On the Summary page, click Finish.
8. Right-click the service that you added, and click Properties.
9. In the Dependencies tab, select SQL Server or Monitoring Agent for Microsoft SQL Sever from the Resources list.
10. Click Apply > OK.
11. Right-click the service that you created, and click Bring this resource online.