<div class="content"><p>The <b>ConfigSvcSecret</b> method stores the <a href="b30bcd1c-8ff6-46d2-a27e-61bd85ace9f4#gt_12ee6a09-989b-4841-a48b-9d89e06a63cd" data-linktype="relative-path">cluster secret</a> in an
implementation-specific manner on the server.</p><dl>
<dd>
<div><pre> HRESULT ConfigSvcSecret(
   [in] BSTR SecretBLOB
 );
</pre></div>
</dd></dl><p><b>SecretBLOB: </b>The cluster secret for the cluster
in which this server is or will be a node.</p><p><b>Return Values: </b>A signed 32-bit value that
indicates return status. If the method returns a negative value, it has failed.
Zero or positive values indicate success, with the lower 16 bits in positive
nonzero values containing warnings or flags defined in the method
implementation. For more information about Win32 error codes and <a href="../ms-dtyp/a9046ed2-bfb2-4d56-a719-2824afce59ac" data-linktype="relative-path">HRESULT</a>
values, see <a href="../ms-erref/1bc92ddf-b79e-413c-bbaa-99a5281a6c90" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-ERREF]</a>
sections <a href="../ms-erref/18d8fbe8-a967-4f1c-ae50-99ca8e491d2d" data-linktype="relative-path">2.2</a>
and <a href="../ms-erref/0642cb2f-2075-4469-918c-4441e69c548a" data-linktype="relative-path">2.1</a>.</p><dl>
<dd>
<table><thead>
  <tr>
   <th>
   <p>Return value/code</p>
   </th>
   <th>
   <p>Description</p>
   </th>
  </tr>
 </thead><tbody><tr>
  <td>
  <p>0x00000000</p>
  <p>S_OK</p>
  </td>
  <td>
  <p>The call was successful.</p>
  </td>
 </tr></tbody></table>
</dd>
<dd>
<p>For any other condition, this method MUST return a
value that is not one of the values listed in the preceding table. The client
MUST behave in one consistent, identical manner for all values that are not
listed in the preceding table.</p>
</dd></dl><p>Exceptions Thrown: No exceptions are thrown beyond those
thrown by the underlying RPC protocol <a href="../ms-rpce/290c38b1-92fe-4229-91e6-4fc376610c15" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-RPCE]</a>.</p><p>The opnum field value for this method is 3.</p><p>When processing this call the server MUST store the cluster
secret such that it persists across reboots and does not change except as part
of processing a subsequent ConfigSvcSecret method call. The server MUST
overwrite any previous value of the cluster secret. The server SHOULD store the
cluster secret in a secure way.</p></div>