Autoenabling service groups

Last published : Jul 06, 2026
In the Management Server console, a service group is autodisabled until Cluster Server (VCS) probes all resources and checks that they are ready to come online. You can autoenable a service group in situations where the VCS engine is not running on one of the systems in the cluster. In this case, you must change the disabled state of the service group to enable the group on another system in the cluster.
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 autoenable a service group
  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. Right-click on the service group and select Edit>Autoenable.
  5. In the Autoenable Service Group panel, select the system to autoenable the service group on. Click OK.
  6. In the Result panel, click OK.
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