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  13.4 Understanding the Autostart Feature
  Digital recommends you use autostart queues whenever
  possible. The autostart feature simplifies startup and en-
  sures high availability of execution queues. It lets you do the
  following:

  .
        Start all autostart queues on a node with a single com-
        mand
  .
        Specify a list of nodes (within a VMScluster environment)
        to which a queue can automatically attempt to fail over if
        necessary

        Autostart's failover feature is particularly useful on LAT
        queues. Because LAT printers are usually shared among
        users of multiple systems or VMScluster systems, many
        users will be affected if a LAT queue is unavailable. For
        highest availability, set up your LAT queues with a list of
        nodes to which the queue can fail over, so the queue will
        continue to run even if a node becomes unavailable.

  To use autostart queues, you must do the following:



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  Enable autostart on a node. You can do this before or after
  you create a queue.

                                                                                Section 13.9.1.3
  Create the queue as an autostart queue and, optionally,
  specify a failover list.

                                                                                Section 13.7.2.2
  Activate the queue for autostart. You can do this when you
  create the queue, or after.

                                                                                Section 13.9.1.4



  When you enable autostart on a node, all stopped, active
  autostart queues capable of running on the node are auto-
  matically started by the queue manager. Any autostart queue
  that fails over to the node is also automatically started.