Linking the application and replication service groups
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Linking the application and replication service groups

Set an online local hard group dependency from appgroup to appgroup_rep to ensure that the service groups fail over and switch together.

To link the service groups

1. In the Cluster Explorer configuration tree, click the cluster name.
2. In the view panel, click the Service Groups tab. This opens the service group dependency graph.
3. Click Link.
4. Click the parent group, appgroup, and move the mouse toward the child group, appgroup_rep.
5. Click the child group appgroup_rep.
6. In the Link Service Groups dialog box, click the online local relationship and the hard dependency type and click OK.