Managing Serviceguard 12th Edition, March 2006

Understanding Serviceguard Software Components
How the Package Manager Works
Chapter 3 79
When the cluster starts, each package starts as shown in Figure 3-7.
Figure 3-7 Rotating Standby Configuration before Failover
If a failure occurs, any package would fail over to the node containing
fewest running packages, as in Figure 3-8, which shows a failure on node
2:
Figure 3-8 Rotating Standby Configuration after Failover
pkgC node3, node4,
node1, node2
MIN_PACKAGE_NODE
Table 3-1 Package Configuration Data (Continued)
Package Name NODE_NAME List FAILOVER_POLICY