Why does my failover domain show as nonexistent in the log when I start a cluster service in a RHEL 5 or 6 High Availability cluster?

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Issue

  • When starting a cluster managed service, the following error appears in /var/log/messages:
rgmanager: #66: Domain 'failover' specified for resource group service:<service name> nonexistent!

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 or 6 with the High Availability Add On
  • rgmanager
  • A <service> in /etc/cluster/cluster.conf specifying a domain that does not match the name of one of the defined <failoverdomains/>

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