Selecting the policy for a high availability group

Every high availability group has an associated policy. The high availability manager uses this policy to determine which members of a high availability group to put in the active state. Before you select a policy for a high availability group, you should review the following topics:

• High availability group policy modification guidelines

• High availability group policies

You should also know:

• The name of the core group that you want to associate with the new policy.

• The name of the high availability group that you want this policy to control.

• The function, such as transaction log recovery or messaging engine, that is associated with this high availability group.

• The policy types, such as One of N or Static, that this function supports.

• The type of policy you want to create.

• The policy settings, such as failback, and preferred servers only, that you want to configure for this policy.

Overview

To select a policy for a high availability group:

Procedure

1. In the administrative console, click Servers > Core groups > Core group settings core_group_name .

2. Click the Runtime tab to determine both the name of the high availability group, and the name of the policy that is currently controlling the group. See Viewing high availability group information for more information on how to perform this step. You must have at least one of the group members running.

3. Click the Configuration tab to determine the match criteria defined in the current high availability group policy.

4. Use the information you obtained in the previous steps and update the match criteria for the policy you are selecting. The match criterion must contain all of the match criteria from the original policy, and at least one additional attribute from the name of the high availability group.

5. Click OK and then click Review.

6. Select Synchronize changes with nodes, and then click Save.

Results

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