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Defining database fault behavior

Use the resource and service group attributes to control how VCS responds when resources or systems fault:

• If you want the listener to restart and never affect other resources if it faults:
  • Set the listener resource to non-critical.
  • Do not make the listener a child of a critical resource.
  • Set RestartLimit=x.
• If you do not want VCS to forcibly clean up if the database faults:
  • Set ManageFaults=None for the service group.
  • Set notification on fault, no clean, no failover.

Even if a database resource is non-critical, the clean entry point runs if the resource faults. This action shuts down the database and leaves it offline. See the Veritas Cluster Server documentation for details on configuring critical resources, VCS response to faults, and the impact of service group attributes on failover.