Bringing service groups online

Last published : Jun 19, 2026
Use the Management Server console to manually put one or more service groups in a functioning state (referred to as online) on a specific system, any system of a selected site, or any available system in the cluster. The site awareness lets you fail over the service groups to another site in an event of failure at the local site. The online operation is applicable to failover, parallel, and hybrid service groups, or their combination (applicable to multiple service groups selection).
To perform this task, your user group must be assigned the Admin role or 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 bring service groups online
  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 and then the Service Groups node to locate the service group.
  4. Under the Service Groups tab, select the required service group. Press Ctrl or Shift for the selection of multiple service groups.
  5. Right-click and select Online.
See Online service groups panel options.
  1. In the Result panel, click OK.
More Information
About site aware service group operations