Bringing a service group online
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Bringing a service group online

Manually put a service group into a responsive, functioning state. You must have the role of cluster operator or service group operator to bring a service group online.

You can bring a service group online on a specific system, or you can bring the service group online "anywhere." If you select the Anywhere option, the service group is brought online on the first available system in the cluster.

To bring a service group online with the opportunity to specify one system

1. In the Cluster:Groups view, in the Groups Listing table, click the linked name of the offline service group that you want to bring online.
2. In the Group:Summary view, in the Operations task panel, click Online.
3. This step is necessary only if the system list for the service group has more than one member system.

   In the Online Service Group dialog box, select the system on which to bring the service group online, or click Anywhere.

   The system choices in this step are populated using the system list for the service group. The Anywhere option causes this task to try each system in the list until the service group is successfully brought online.

4. Click OK to confirm that you want to bring the service group online.

To bring one or more service groups online anywhere

1. In the Cluster:Groups view, in the Groups Listing table, check the check box preceding the line item for the offline service group that you want to bring online. Select all service groups by checking the check box at the top.
2. In the Operations task panel, click Online Anywhere.
3. In the Online Service Group(s) dialog box, click OK to confirm that you want to bring the selected service groups online on any system in the cluster.

   The candidate systems are members of the system list for each service group. The Online Anywhere task tries each system in a system list until every service group is successfully brought online.