In this Blog entry I review some of the Monitoring, Health Status Reporting and Alerting capabilities of using the Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft Windows Cluster Management Packs to maintain a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster running SQL 2008 Failover Cluster Services. I offer details on how System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 provides a suitable Operational Management Platform for supporting Windows 2008 Failover Clustering and SQL 2008 Failover Clustering. ...