Oracle Clusterware manages an administrator-managed database service defined with the MANUAL management policy.

The service must be manually started withSRVCTLafter a planned restart of the instance hosting the service.

The service must be manually restarted withSRVCTLevery time the instance hosting the service fails.

The service must be manually restarted withSRVCTLafter restarting the Clusterware stack on the node hosting the service.

Clusterware will monitor the service while it is active.

When manually started, the service will always start on one or more available instances rather than on their preferred instances.