<div class="content"><p>The <b>ConfigClusterCert</b> method SHOULD<a id="Appendix_A_Target_34"></a><a aria-label="Product behavior note 34" href="6ea29e14-9c33-4927-90a8-258fd1d6d042#Appendix_A_34" data-linktype="relative-path">&lt;34&gt;</a> store the certificate and <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 ConfigClusterCert(
      [in] CLUSTER_CERT * ClusterCert
    );
</pre></div>
</dd></dl><p><b>ClusterCert:</b> The certificate and cluster
secret for the cluster in which this server is or will be a node. The <b>CLUSTER_CERT</b>
structure is defined in section <a href="bcec2abc-1a37-4b67-8574-71affa665d4c" data-linktype="relative-path">2.2.23</a>.</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 HRESULT values, see <a href="../ms-erref/1bc92ddf-b79e-413c-bbaa-99a5281a6c90" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-ERREF]</a>
section <a href="../ms-erref/0642cb2f-2075-4469-918c-4441e69c548a" data-linktype="relative-path">2.1</a>
and section <a href="../ms-erref/18d8fbe8-a967-4f1c-ae50-99ca8e491d2d" data-linktype="relative-path">2.2</a>.</p><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><dl>
<dd>
<p><br/>
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 9.</p><p>When processing this call, the server MUST store the
certificate and cluster secret such that it persists across reboots and does
not change, except as part of processing a subsequent <b>ConfigClusterCert</b>
method call. The server MUST overwrite any previous value of the certificate
and cluster secret. The server SHOULD store the private key of the certificate
and cluster secret in a secure way.</p></div>