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Core group policy settings

Use this page to define a policy for a high availability group. A policy is defined at the core group level. It only applies to matching high availability groups contained within this core group

From the admin console, click...


Name

Name of the policy. This name must be unique within the scope of a core group.


Policy type

Policy type selected when this policy was created. This is a read-only field. To change the policy type, we must delete this policy and then create it again specifying a different policy type. If this is an IBM provided policy, do not delete it. Instead create a new policy and specify more of the attributes contained in the name of the high availability group as the match criterion for this new policy. The policy with the greatest number of matches to attributes in a group's name is the policy associated with that group.


Description

Description of this policy. For example, the clustered TM policy provided with the product has "TM One-Of-N Policy" as its description.


Is alive timer

Specifies, in seconds, the interval of time at which the high availability manager will check the health of the active group members governed by this policy. If a group member has failed, the server on which the group member resides is restarted.

The high availability manager detects two fundamentally different kinds of failures.

Information Value
Data type Integer

  • Valid values are -1 to 600 seconds, inclusive.

  • If -1 (negative 1) is specified, this function is disabled.

  • If 0 (zero) is specified, the frequency at which the high availability manager checks the health of the active group members is determined by the time interval specified at the application server process level.

  • If a value larger than 0 (zero) is specified, the high availability manager uses the time interval specified here, instead of the one specified at the application server process level, when determining how frequently it should check the health of the high availability group members using this policy.

Default 0 (zero)


Fail back

Specifies whether work items assigned to the failing server are moved to the server that is designated as the most preferred server for the group if a failure occurs. This field only applies for M of N and One of N policies.


Preferred servers only

Specifies whether group members are only activated on servers that are on the list of preferred servers for this group. This field only applies for M of N and One of N policies.


Number of active members

Specify how many of the high availability group members are to be activated. This field only applies for the M of N policy.


Quorum

Specifies whether quorum checking is enabled for a group governed by this policy. Quorum is a mechanism used to protect resources that are shared across members of the group in the event of a failure.

Important: Quorum is an advanced hardware function and should not be enabled unless you thoroughly understand how to properly use this function. If not used properly, this function can cause data corruption.

The Quorum setting in the policy will only have an effect if the following items are true:

When enabled, any group using this policy will not achieve quorum until a majority of the members are running. For example, if there are n members in the group, (n/2) + 1 servers must be online in order to achieve quorum. No group members will be activated until quorum has been achieved.

The quorum mechanism is designed to work in conjunction with a hardware control facility that allows application servers to be shut down if a failure causes the group to be partitioned.


Additional Properties

One or more of the following options, depending on the type of policy we selected:

Option Description
Custom properties Click to specify custom properties for the policy.
Match criteria Click to set up a match criterion for the policy.
Preferred servers Click to set up a list of servers that are given preference when group members are activated.
Static group servers Click to set up a list of the specific servers that are activated.


  • Create a policy for a high availability group
  • Implications of high availability group policy settings