SelectFromPolicy

System Automation for Multiplatforms uses the SelectFromPolicy persistent attribute to determine the policy to be used in making a selection from the equivalency. You can modify this attribute when the resources referencing the equivalency are offline. Possible policies:

Any (the default)
In this case, if a resource contained within an equivalency fails, System Automation for Multiplatforms chooses any resource without referring to a pre-specified order of selection.
Ordered
In this case, if a resource contained within an equivalency fails, System Automation for Multiplatforms always starts from the beginning of the selection list.
Note: An Ordered policy may not be used when a dynamic SelectString is used.
There are additional settings for the SelectFromPolicy persistent attribute, which can be combined with the Any or Ordered setting to effect a particular automation behavior:
Failback
The Failback option can only be specified for an Ordered policy. If the option is specified, System Automation for Multiplatforms will fail back the resources to the node hosting the first member of the equivalency when the first member becomes available again.

Note that this feature has an impact on move requests against resource groups (see also Moving resource groups): If an equivalency with a Failback policy is involved in a move request, the move of the resource group is performed, but immediately after the resources are Online on the target node, the Failback option of the equivalency causes the resource group to be moved back to the original node.

NoFailure
If the NoFailure option is specified, resources that have a DependsOn relationship to the equivalency will not be set to Failed Offline if an Online request against these resources does not succeed within the Online timeout interval. This implies that these resources will be failed over to another node only if the MonitorCommand for these resources returns Failed Offline.
NoControl
The NoControl option identifies the members of the equivalency as shadow resources. In this case, System Automation for Multiplatforms will not start or stop the members of the equivalency but will only react to changes of the OpState of the equivalency resource members. By default, System Automation for Multiplatforms will start and stop controllable resources within an equivalency, for example, of class IBM.Application.