Issues related to the VCS engine

Last published : Sep 09, 2026
This section describes the knonw issues about the VCS engine.
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Extremely high CPU utilization may cause HAD to fail to heartbeat to GABThe hacf -cmdtocf command generates a broken main.cf fileVCS fails to validate processor ID while performing CPU BindingTrigger does not get executed when there is more than one leading or trailing slash in the triggerpathService group is not auto started on the node having incorrect value of EngineRestartedGroup is not brought online if top level resource is disabledNFS resource goes offline unexpectedly and reports errors when restartedParent group does not come online on a node where child group is onlineCannot modify temp attribute when VCS is in LEAVING stateService group may fail to come online after a flush and a force flush operationElevated TargetCount prevents the online of a service group with hagrp -online -sys commandSystem sometimes displays error message with vcsencrypt or vcsdecryptAuto failover does not happen in case of two successive primary and secondary cluster failuresGCO clusters remain in INIT stateThe ha commands may fail for non-root user if cluster is secureEvery ha command takes longer time to execute on secure FIPS mode clustersRunning -delete -keys for any scalar attribute causes core dumpVeritas InfoScale enters into admin_wait state when Cluster Statistics is enabled with load and capacity definedAgent reports incorrect state if VCS is not set to start automatically and utmp file is empty before VCS is startedVCS crashes if feature tracking file is corruptRemoteGroup agent and non-root users may fail to authenticate after a secure upgradeIf you disable security before upgrading VCS to version 7.0.1 or later on secured clusters, the security certificates will not be upgraded to 2048 bit SHA2Java console and CLI do not allow adding VCS user names starting with '_' character (3870470)