3.6.0 Matrix Server 3.6.0 Administration Guide (5697-7081, December 2007)

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Service Monitor Policy

The Policy tab lets you specify the failover behavior of the service monitor

and set its service priority.

Timeout and Failure Severity

This setting works with the virtual host policy (either

AUTOFAILBACK or

NOFAILBACK) to determine what happens when a probe of a monitored

service fails.

The default policies (

AUTOFAILBACK for the virtual host and

AUTORECOVERY for the monitor) cause ClusterPulse to fail over the

associated virtual host to a backup network interface on another server.

When the service is recovered on the original node, the virtual host fails

back to that node.

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

behavior. There are three settings:

NOFAILOVER, AUTORECOVER, and

NOAUTORECOVER.

NOFAILOVER. When the monitored service fails, ClusterPulse does not

fail over to a backup network interface. This option is useful when the