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Chapter 3: Configure CIFS with Virtual CIFS Servers 28

Policy

The Policy tab lets you specify the failover policy and service priority that

will apply to the Virtual File Share monitor.

Timeout and Failure Severity: This setting works with the Virtual CIFS

Server policy (either

AUTOFAILBACK or NOFAILBACK) to determine what

happens when the monitor’s probe fails.

The default policies (

NOFAILBACK for the virtual host and

AUTORECOVER for the monitor) cause the ClusterPulse process to fail

over the Virtual CIFS Server to a backup node. The Virtual CIFS Server

remains on the backup node until a “healthier” node becomes available,

at which point the Virtual CIFS Server will fail over to that node.

You can use the Timeout and Failure Severity attribute to change the

failover/failback behavior. There are three settings:

NOFAILOVER,

AUTORECOVER

, and NOAUTORECOVER.

NOFAILOVER. When the monitor probe fails, the Virtual CIFS Server does

not fail over to a backup node. This option is useful when the monitored

resource is not critical, but is important enough that you want to keep a