Specifications

When this setting is no, or if the operating system did not set a policy, the service
processor refers to enable supplemental restart policy for its action.
Enable supplemental restart policy - The default setting is no. If set to yes, the
service processor restarts the server when the operating system loses control and
either:
The Use OS-Defined restart policy is set to no.
OR
The Use OS-Defined restart policy is set to yes and the operating system has no
automatic restart policy.
The following table describes the relationship among the operating system and service
processor restart controls:
OS Automatic
reboot/restart
after crash setting
Service processor to
use OS-Defined
restart policy?
Service Processor
Enable supplemental
restart policy?
System response
None No No
1
None No Yes Restarts
None Yes
1
No
1
None Yes
1
Yes Restarts
False
2
No No
1
False
2
No Yes Restarts
False
2
Yes
1
No
1
False
2
Yes
1
Yes
True No No
1
True No Yes Restarts
True Yes
1
No
1
Restarts
True Yes
1
Yes Restarts
1
Service processor default
2
AIX default
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