Managing HP Serviceguard for Linux, Seventh Edition, July 2007

Understanding Serviceguard Software Components
How the Package Manager Works
Chapter 352
If a failure occurs, any package would fail over to the node containing
fewest running packages, as in Figure 3-9, which shows a failure on node
2:
Figure 3-9 Rotating Standby Configuration after Failover
NOTE Using the min_package_node policy, when node 2 is repaired and
brought back into the cluster, it will then be running the fewest
packages, and thus will become the new standby node.
If these packages had been set up using the configured_node failover
policy, they would start initially as in Figure 3-8, but the failure of node 2
would cause the package to start on node 3, as in Figure 3-10: