The additional steps in this section make the application group functional in the failover cluster. The application resource needs to be added, as well as any other resources that are associated with the application. Also, dependencies need to be established for the resources.
The following list presents a high-level summary of the process for completing the application group setup.
Before creating the application resource, make sure that all the other application resources, including the Volume Manager Disk Group resource and any additional application resources, are online.
Refer to the application documentation for information on creating its resource and additional resources that may be required, such as the IP address resource.
When creating the application resource, add the Volume Manager Disk Group resource as a resource dependency.
The following dependency chart indicates the dependencies that are established.