<div class="content"><p>The <b>RetrieveSvcSecret</b> method returns the <a href="b30bcd1c-8ff6-46d2-a27e-61bd85ace9f4#gt_12ee6a09-989b-4841-a48b-9d89e06a63cd" data-linktype="relative-path">cluster secret</a> stored on
this server.</p><dl>
<dd>
<div><pre> HRESULT RetrieveSvcSecret(
   [out] BSTR* SecretBLOB
 );
</pre></div>
</dd></dl><p><b>SecretBLOB: </b>The value of the cluster secret as
stored on this server.</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><tr>
  <td>
  <p>0x80070002</p>
  <p>ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND</p>
  </td>
  <td>
  <p>The cluster secret has not yet been configured by a
  previous call to <a href="02a84fb8-82b1-4bb6-98bd-8078e6df8522" data-linktype="relative-path">ConfigSvcSecret</a>.</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 4.</p><p>When processing this call the server MUST do the following:</p><ul><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Retrieve the cluster secret from its storage in an
implementation-specific manner.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>If the cluster secret was not previously set by a call to
ConfigSvcSecret, the server MUST return 0x80070002 (ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) error
code.</p>
</li></ul><p>The server returns the following information to the client:</p><ul><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>The cluster secret.</p>
</li></ul></div>