Installing and upgrading HP Insight Management 7.3 on Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters

Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3
Bringing online the Insight Management clustered service
In the center pane of Failover Cluster Manager, right-click the HP SIM Group, in this white paper cms-c17-matrix, and select
Start Role. If configured properly, all resources should come online, as shown in Figure 9.
Figure 9: Failover Cluster Manager: Cluster resources in the HP SIM Group
Stopping or restarting Windows services that are cluster resources
Once a Windows service is configured as a Failover Cluster resource, it should always be stopped and restarted using
Failover Cluster Manager. When a Failover Cluster resource is online, its corresponding Windows service should never be
stopped or restarted using the Services console or a related API. Doing so is likely to cause the resource to be restarted, or
the group to which the resource belongs, to failover.
It is safe to manipulate a Windows service that is a Failover Cluster resource from the Services console when that resource,
and all other cluster resources having a dependency on it, are offline. This practice is best reserved for maintenance
procedures, and not used for day-to-day operations.
Always use Failover Cluster Manager to stop a service. Right-click the service’s resource in the center pane and then click
Stop Role. The resource and any other resources that have a dependency on it are taken offline. To start the same service,
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