playing with Resource

I need to play with a resource inside a Service Group, but I don't want to cause the Group to fault. What do I need to do?

You should first make the resource non-critical.

hares -modify {resource name} Critical 0

By making the resource non-critical, VCS will not offline the Group if it
thinks this resource faulted.

You must also make any Parents of this resource non-critical. Run this to
check if there are any parents for this resource:

hares -dep

If you don't want VCS to monitor your resource, you can disable monitoring by
doing this:

hares -modify {resource name} Enabled 0

This prevents VCS from monitoring the state of this resource, so it won't
fault the Group no matter what you do to the resource, even if it has
Critical=1.

If the Group is in production, you might want to freeze the Group just to
be safe.