Standby services are configured in the application profile. The following steps describe configuration using the Platform Management Console (PMC). To configure standby services manually, set the enableStandbyServices attribute to true in the Consumer section of the application profile.
- In the PMC, click .
- Under the Reclaim optimization heading, select Optimized for standby service. Click Apply.
Important: In some cases, optimizing for standby services may not produce the expected results; refer to the Cluster and Application Management guide for more information about sharing resources with standby services.
- Click .
The Applications page displays.
- Select the application you want to modify.
The Application Profile page displays.
- In the General Settings section, if you want to include preloaded service instances in your application, enter the number of slots in the Number of slots for preloaded services textbox.
- In the Enable standby service dropdown list, select true. This ensures that resources allocated to the application will have standby services running when slots are released by the SSM.
- In the Slots threshold for standby services textbox, enter the maximum number of slots that standby services can run on for this application.
- Click Save to apply your changes.
Symphony reregisters the application for the changes to take effect. The standby services will be started and remain running once workload is submitted to the application.