Max value for Heartbeat_Interval

[Faizer Jameel]

Hi Gurus
Question1: What is the maximum value that can be set for the HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL

Question2: Is there any possibility for the cluster NOT halt the running node down but to move the package to the other node. If yes then what is the configuration that should be done.
Thanks

[A. Clay Stephenson]

1)In almost all cases the default of 1 sec is fine. I would not exceed about 5 seconds. In general, whenever someone wants to alter this value there is a network problem and that is what should be addressed instead.

2) A package switch should not halt any node.
All you need to do is:
cmhaltpkg -v mypackage
cmrunpkg -n newnode -v mypackage

[Faizer Jameel]

Thanks a lot.
It helped in my case. I have set the heartbeat interval at 2 secs as this is a test cluster I'm configuring
Thanks again
Faizer