[Info-vax] reboot due to network failure

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <jc7s1f$nov$1 at pcls6.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com
(Michael Moroney) writes: 

> When connection is restored, these sub-clusters see each other and resolve
> their differences via hara-kiri.  The rules are as follows: The subcluster
> with the most votes "wins". Members of other subclusters reboot.  If a
> tie: (3 way tie in your case), the subcluster with the most nodes win (two
> servers with 1 vote each beats a 2 vote server).  In your case, again a 3
> way tie.  At this point, I was told by a cluster engineer that it was
> essentially random who won.  (over the years I've also heard it was the
> subcluster with the lowest SCSNODE in it, and the subcluster with the
> highest SCSNODE in it, obviously at least one of these must be wrong)

Both are wrong.  In my case, it was the one with SCSSYSTEMID in the 
middle.