Preferred servers

Use this page to define the ordered list of preferred servers for the selected policy. The policy gives preference to the servers in this list when activating group members. If there are no preferred servers in the list or none of the servers in the list are active (able to accept work), any available application server will be designated by the coordinator for the high availability group associated with this policy. The coordinator activates and deactivates high availability group members based on the policy that is in effect for that group.

To view this administrative console page, be working with a policy that has a policy type of M of N or One of N. If your policy has one of these policy types, click Servers > Core groups > Core group settings > New > or select an existing core group > Policies > New > or select an existing policy. Under Additional Properties, select Preferred Servers.

Use Add and Remove to move servers into and out of the list of preferred servers. Use Move up and Move down to adjust the order within the list of preferred servers. Verify the most preferred server is at the top of the list and the least preferred server is at the bottom.

Click OK to make your changes effective. Click Save to save and synchronize your changes with all managed nodes.

Changes to the preferred servers list take affect as soon as they are saved and synchronized. You do not have to stop and restart the affected application servers.