Managing Serviceguard 12th Edition, March 2006

Understanding Serviceguard Software Components
How the Package Manager Works
Chapter 3 81
# of running the package. Default is MANUAL which means no attempt
# will be made to move the package back to it primary node when it is
# running on an alternate node. The alternate policy is AUTOMATIC which
# means the package will be moved back to its primary node whenever the
# primary node is capable of running the package.
#FAILBACK_POLICY MANUAL
As an example, consider the following four-node configuration, in which
FAILOVER_POLICY is set to CONFIGURED_NODE and FAILBACK_POLICY is
AUTOMATIC:
Figure 3-10 Automatic Failback Configuration before Failover
Node1 panics, and after the cluster reforms, pkgA starts running on
node4:
Table 3-2 Node Lists in Sample Cluster
Package
Name
NODE_NAME
List
FAILOVER
POLICY
FAILBACK
POLICY
pkgA node1, node4 CONFIGURED_NODE AUTOMATIC
pkgB node2, node4 CONFIGURED_NODE AUTOMATIC
pkgC node3, node4 CONFIGURED_NODE AUTOMATIC