Managing HP Serviceguard A.11.20.20 for Linux, May 2013

NOTE: Keep the following in mind when reading the examples that follow, and when actually
configuring priorities:
1. auto_run (page 176) should be set to yes for all the packages involved; the examples assume
that it is.
2. Priorities express a ranking order, so a lower number means a higher priority (10 is a higher
priority than 30).
HP recommends assigning values in increments of 20 so as to leave gaps in the sequence;
otherwise you may have to shuffle all the existing priorities when assigning priority to a new
package.
no_priority, the default, is treated as a lower priority than any numerical value.
3. All packages with no_priority are by definition of equal priority, and there is no other
way to assign equal priorities; a numerical priority must be unique within the cluster. See
“priority” (page 179) for more information.
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