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Active Node

                                                        Active Node in a Cluster

Def: This script when run sends a mail whenever there is a change in the active node on which the SQL instance is currently running.

Please find the below link for code.

https://gist.github.com/tejaswidatla/164e528d8a5b83687a5f892c9b41d9d6

NOTE: Passive node is one that does not have any active service running on it (just like with SQL server services may not be running on passive node but that doesn't mean passive node can be offline). There is a quoram disk which has data on how the drive mapping must happen when the services failover.













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