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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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.
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.