Bring Cluster Services Online

Use the Bring Cluster Services Online task to select nodes and manage how cluster services run on them.

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Start cluster services on the following nodes
To start clusters services, select one or more nodes.
When to Start
Select when and how cluster services start.
Start now
Immediately starts cluster services.
Start on system restart
Starts cluster services when the system is restarted.
Start now and on system restart
Immediately starts cluster services and starts cluster services when the system is restarted.
Manage resource groups
Select whether to manually manage the resource groups or have them automatically managed by the system.
Automatically
The PowerHA™ system brings resource groups online according to the configuration settings and the cluster state of the resource group. The system also monitors the availability of those resource groups and applications.
Manually
Select this option to manually start cluster services.
Note: Manually starting cluster services does not affect how the PowerHA system manages resource groups.
Startup cluster information daemon
Select Yes or No.
Yes
The cluster information daemon starts and provides status information about the cluster.
No
The cluster information daemon does not start.
Yes with consistency group support
The cluster information daemon starts, provides status information about the cluster, and ensures that a consistent state of the application data on the disk is maintained if a failure occurs in the host machine, software, or the storage subsystem.
Broadcast message at startup
Select Yes or No
Yes
Uses the wall command to broadcast startup messages.
No
Startup messages are not broadcast.
Ignore verification errors
Select Yes or No
Yes
Verification errors are ignored and cluster services start on all of the specified nodes.
No
Nodes that have verification errors cannot start cluster services.
Note: If a verification error occurs on a node that is not used to start cluster services, that verification error is ignored.
Automatically correct errors
Select how verification errors are corrected.
Yes
Automatically corrects the verification errors that affect starting the cluster services.
Note: Not all verification errors are automatically corrected; some must be corrected manually.
No
Verification errors are not automatically corrected: they must be manually corrected.
Interactively
Prompts users to correct verification errors.