Veritas Cluster Server service in Solaris 10 reports "maintenance"

Problem

Attempting to enable the svc:/system/vcs:default service using svcadm enable vcs, the service transitions to maintenance.

Error Message

svc:/system/vcs:default (Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) Init service)
 State: maintenance since Thu Oct 14 12:15:57 2010
Reason: Start method failed repeatedly, last exited with status 2.
   See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS
   See: man -M /opt/VRTS/man/man1m/ -s 1M vcsconfig
   See: /var/svc/log/system-vcs:default.log
Impact: This service is not running.

Cause

This situation can occur if the '/etc/default/vcs' file is present, but the VCS_START variable has been set to '0' (i.e., do not start or stop VCS via svc:/system/vcs:default) explicitly in /etc/default/vcs.

Solution

Set VCS_START variable to '1' in /etc/default/vcs