<div class="content" name="Introduction" uuid="725c1cb3-18c6-43ca-95e6-27ab0ea53e73"><p>The Failover Cluster: Setup and Validation Protocol
(ClusPrep) consists of DCOM interfaces, as specified in <span><a href="../ms-dcom/4a893f3d-bd29-48cd-9f43-d9777a4415b0" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-DCOM]</a></span>,
that are used for remotely configuring cluster nodes cleaning up cluster nodes
and validating that hardware and software settings are compatible with use in a
failover cluster.</p><p>Sections 1.5, 1.8, 1.9, 2, and 3 of this specification are
normative. All other sections and examples in this specification are
informative.</p></div>