OfflineClusterGroupEx function (clusapi.h)

Extends the OfflineClusterGroup method. The client can use the flags to control failover policies of the group and the input buffer to send specific instructions for the offline operation to the resources in the target group. For instance, the input buffer can be used to instruct a virtual machine to go offline by saving its state as opposed to shutting down.

Syntax

DWORD OfflineClusterGroupEx(
  [in] HGROUP hGroup,
  [in] DWORD  dwOfflineFlags,
       PBYTE  lpInBuffer,
  [in] DWORD  cbInBufferSize
);

Parameters

[in] hGroup

The handle to a cluster group.

[in] dwOfflineFlags

Flags that influence the offline policy. Along with 0x0, the following is an acceptable value: CLUSAPI_GROUP_OFFLINE_IGNORE_RESOURCE_LOCKED_STATUS (0x00000001): disregard if a resource has indicated that it should be “locked” in its current state.

lpInBuffer

Contains instructions for the offline operation that are targeted at specific resources within the group. lpInBuffer is formatted as a property list, which means that the instructions are contained in property values. Resources in the group search the property list for property names that they support for offline operations and then interpret the instructions in the associated property value. Note that the properties supported by a resource in an OfflineClusterGroupEx operation are not related to the private properties associated with a resource.

[in] cbInBufferSize

The size of lpInBuffer, in bytes.

Return value

OfflineClusterGroupEx returns ERROR_IO_PENDING if the offline command has been accepted and is in progress. OfflineClusterGroupEx returns a nonzero error code if the offline command was rejected immediately with no changes to group state.

Remarks

OfflineClusterGroupEx fails immediately with error ERROR_CLUSTER_RESOURCE_LOCKED_STATUS if the CLUSAPI_OFFLINE_GROUP_IGNORE_RESOURCE_LOCKED_STATUS flag is not set and any resource in the group has indicated that it is “locked” in its current state.

Similar to MoveClusterGroupEx, if OfflineClusterGroupEx returns ERROR_IO_PENDING, then the cluster service will attempt to bring the group to the offline state.

OfflineClusterGroupEx requires that the client be granted Full access in the cluster security descriptor.

Examples

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ClusAPI.h>


#define DemoResDllTypeName L"dummy"
#define DemoGroupName L"DemoGroup"


BOOL WaitForGroupToGoOffline(__in HGROUP hGroup)
{
    for(;;)
    {
        CLUSTER_GROUP_STATE state = GetClusterGroupState( hGroup, NULL, NULL );
        if( state == ClusterGroupFailed || state == ClusterGroupPartialOnline || state == ClusterGroupOnline)
        {
            return false;
        }
        else if ( state == ClusterGroupOffline )
        {
            return true;
        }

        Sleep(100);
    }
}

int __cdecl main( void )
{
    HCLUSTER hCluster= NULL;
    HGROUP hGroup = NULL;
    DWORD error = 0;
    
    hCluster = OpenCluster( NULL );
    if ( hCluster == NULL )
    {
        error = GetLastError();
        wprintf( L"Failed to open cluster: 0x%x\n", error );
        goto Cleanup;
    }

    hGroup = OpenClusterGroup( hCluster, DemoGroupName );
    if ( hGroup == NULL )
    {
        error = GetLastError();
        wprintf( L"Failed to open cluster group " DemoGroupName L": 0x%x\n", error );
        goto Cleanup;
    }

    // Offlining Group example
    error = OfflineClusterGroupEx(hGroup, CLUSAPI_GROUP_OFFLINE_IGNORE_RESOURCE_STATUS, NULL, 0);
    if ( error == ERROR_IO_PENDING  )
    {
        if (WaitForGroupToGoOffline(hGroup))
        {
            error = ERROR_SUCCESS;
        }
    }
    if ( error )
    {
        wprintf( L"Failed to offline the group" DemoGroupName L": 0x%x\n", error );
        goto Cleanup;
    }
    else
    {
        wprintf( L"Offlined the group" DemoGroupName);
    }


Cleanup:

    if ( hGroup != NULL )
    {
        CloseClusterGroup( hGroup );
        hGroup = NULL;
    }
    if ( hCluster != NULL )
    {
        CloseCluster( hCluster );
        hCluster = NULL;
    }

    return (int)error;
}

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	None supported
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2012
Target Platform	Windows
Header	clusapi.h
Library	ClusAPI.lib
DLL	ClusAPI.dll