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Object states and consolidated states

Objects such as service groups and resources can be in more than one state at a time (one for each system on which they are configured). Other objects, such as clusters, systems, and management servers, can be in only one state at a time. Still other objects, such as resource types, schedules, and users, are stateless.

The Cluster Management Console maps the many possible object states onto a group of cumulative, effective states called consolidated states.

The following are the possible states of each object type and the consolidated state to which it maps. The Cluster Management Console reports the consolidated state.

Object type

State or state
distribution

Consolidated state

Cluster 

init 

offline 

local_vcs_build 

offline 

master_connect 

offline 

slave_build 

synchronizing 

running 

online 

exiting 

offline 

exited 

offline 

faulted 

offline 

dead 

UNKNOWN - UNKNOWN 

DISABLED - OFFLINE (DISABLED) 

Service group 

online > 1 and faulted > 1 

partial 

online > 1 and faulted = 0 

online 

faulted > 1 and online = 0 

faulted 

partial > 1 and faulted = 0 and online = 0 

partial 

offline > 1 and faulted = 0 and online = 0 and
partial = 0
 

offline 

default 

none 

System 

running 

online 

faulted 

faulted 

unknown 

none 

default 

offline 

Resource 

online > 1 

online 

faulted > 1 and online = 0 

faulted 

offline > 1 and faulted = 0 and online = 0 

offline 

default 

none 

Management server 

running 

online 

init 

offline 

local_master_build 

offline 

remote_master_build 

offline 

exiting 

offline 

exited 

offline 

inquiry 

none 

unknown 

none 

lost_hb 

partial 

lost_conn 

partial 

default 

faulted 

Resource type 

stateless 

stateless 

Schedule 

stateless 

stateless 

User 

stateless 

stateless