4.1.0 HP PolyServe Matrix Server administration guide (T5392-96073, October 2010)

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, the virtual host does not fail over
to a backup network interface. This option is useful when the monitored resource is
not critical, but is important enough that you want to keep a record of its health.
Configure service monitors210