Generic Service Resource Availability

Applies To: Windows Server 2008 R2

The service used by a clustered Generic Service instance must start and run correctly before clients can use it. If any settings related to the service or the associated clustered resource are incorrect, the clustered Generic Service instance cannot function correctly.

Events

Event ID Source Message

1040

Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering

Generic service '%1' could not be brought online (with error '%2') during an attempt to open the service. Possible causes include: the service is either not installed or the specified service name is invalid.

1041

Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering

Generic service '%1' could not be brought online (with error '%2') during an attempt to start the service. Possible cause: the specified service parameters might be invalid.

1042

Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering

Generic service '%1' failed with error '%2'. Please examine the application event log.

Clustered Generic Service Instance

Failover Clustering