Marking a resource as critical

Last published : Jul 06, 2026
In the Management Server console, you can mark a resource of a service group as critical. When a resource that is marked as critical or its dependent resource faults, the service group where these resources exist also moves to the faulted state. Cluster Server takes the failed resource offline and updates the service group status to ONLINE|PARTIAL. This operation also ensures that the service group does not come online, as part of its online process, when a critical resource fails to come online
To perform this task, your user group must be assigned the Admin role or the Operator role on the service group or the Availability perspective. The permission on the service group may be explicitly assigned or inherited from a parent Organization or cluster.
To mark a resource as critical
  1. In the Management Server console, go to the Availability perspective and selectManage in the left pane.
  2. Expand the Organization or Uncategorized Clusters to locate the cluster.
  3. Expand the cluster, the Service Groups node, the service group, and then the resource type to locate the resource.
  4. Right-click on the required resource and select Mark Critical.
  5. In the Mark Resource as Critical panel, click OK.
  6. In the Result panel, click OK.
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