Dependency Limitations

• Each parent group can link with only one child group; however, a child group can have multiple parents.
• A service group dependency tree can have three levels, maximum.



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• You cannot link two service groups whose current states violate the relationship.
• All link requests are accepted if all instances of parent group are offline.
• All online local link requests are rejected if for an instance of parent group, an instance of child group is not online on the same system.
• All online remote link requests are rejected when an instance of parent group and an instance of child group are running on the same system.
• All offline local link requests are rejected when an instance of parent group and an instance of child group are running on the same system.
• All link requests are rejected, if parent group is online and child group is offline.
• All online global/online remote link requests to link two parallel groups are rejected.
• All online local link requests to link a parallel parent group to a failover child group are rejected.