Modifying an application service group

Last published : Aug 05, 2026
You can modify an application service group using the Application Configuration Wizard.
Consider the following before you modify service groups using the wizard:
  • If the service group to be modified is online, you must run the wizard from a system on which the service group is online. You can then use the wizard to add or remove resources from the configuration. You cannot modify resources that are online.
  • To change the resource attributes, you must take the service group offline. However, the MountV and VMDg (in case of SFW HA), Mount and DiskRes (in case of Windows LDM), and NetAppSnapDrive and NetAppFiler (in case of VCS for Windows) resources for the service group should be online on the node where you run the wizard and offline on all other nodes.
  • If you are running the wizard to remove a node from the service group's system list, do not run the wizard on the node being removed.
  • If the service group contains resources that were not part of the default service group configuration, then modifying the service group may change those resources. You may then have to manually restore the settings of those resources later.
    Note: Arctera recommends that you do not use the wizard to modify service groups that were not created using the wizard.
To modify an application service group
  1. Start the Application Configuration Wizard.
or
Launch the Solutions Configuration Center, open the** Solutions tab, expand High Availability Configuration Wizards**, and click the** Launch** button for the Application Configuration Wizard.
  1. Review the information on the Welcome panel and click Next.
  2. On the Wizard Options panel, click Modify service group. From the Service Groups list, select the service group containing the resource that you want to modify and click** Next**.
  3. On the Service Group Configuration panel, if required, make changes as appropriate to update the SystemList and AutoStartList attributes, and then click Next.
If you want the service group to automatically come online on one of the systems, make sure to select the Include selected systems in the service group's AutoStartList attribute checkbox.
  1. Click Modify, select the resource you want to modify and then click** Next**.
The Modify option is enabled only if the following conditions are met:
  • Service and Process resources are already configured using the wizard.
  • You selected the Modify Service Groups option in the Wizard Options panel.
  1. Depending on the resource you chose to modify from the Application Options page, you would either get the Generic Service Options, Process Details, or the Service Monitor Options dialog box.
Make required changes in the appropriate dialog box and click Next.
  1. On the User Details dialog box, specify the user information and click Next.
  2. On the Application Resource Summary dialog box, review the summary of the resource.
When modifying a volume in the service group, the Enable FastFailOver attribute for all the VMDg resources in the service group checkbox appears. Select this checkbox to enable all the VMDg resources in the service group for fast failover.
Click Back to make changes. Otherwise, clickNext.
  1. Repeat step 5 through step 8 for each resource that you want to modify.
  2. After modifying the required resources, you can:
    • Add additional resources to the service group.
    • Delete resources from the service group.
    • Add VCS components to the service group.
    • Create the service group.
More Information
Configuring a GenericService resource
Configuring processes
Configuring a ServiceMonitor resource
Adding resources to a service group
Configuring VCS components
Configuring service groups using the Application Configuration Wizard