virtual-machines-ag-listener-bring-online.md

1. Navigate back to Failover Cluster Manager. Expand Roles and then highlight your Availability Group. On the Resources tab, right-click the listener name and click Properties.

2. Click the Dependencies tab. If there are multiple resources listed, verify that the IP addresses have OR, not AND, dependencies. Click OK.

3. Right-click the listener name and click Bring Online.

4. Once the listener is online, from the Resources tab, right-click the availability group and click Properties.

   

5. Create a dependency on the listener name resource (not the IP address resources name). Click OK.

   

6. Launch SQL Server Management Studio and connect to the primary replica.

7. Navigate to AlwaysOn High Availability | Availability Groups | | Availability Group Listeners.

8. You should now see the listener name that you created in Failover Cluster Manager. Right-click the listener name and click Properties.

9. In the Port box, specify the port number for the availability group listener by using the $EndpointPort you used earlier (in this tutorial, 1433 was the default), then click OK.