You can edit Quorum Membership and Timeout properties using iManager, ConsoleOne, or Novell Remote Manager.
In Roles and Tasks, select , then click the link.
Type the cluster name or browse and select it, then click the button under the cluster name.
Click the tab.
In iManager, the same page used to edit quorum membership and timeout is also used for the cluster IP address and port properties and for cluster e-mail notification.
Right-click the Cluster object.
Click .
Select the tab on the Cluster Object Property page.
In the left column, select , then select .
Select the Cluster object name.
Click .
The Quorum Membership is the number of nodes that must be running in the cluster before resources will start to load. When you first bring up servers in your cluster, Novell Cluster Services reads the number specified in the Membership field and waits until that number of servers is up and running in the cluster before it starts loading resources.
Set the Membership value to a number greater than 1 so that all resources don't automatically load on the first server that is brought up in the cluster. For example, if you set the Membership value to 4, there must be four servers up in the cluster before any resource will load and start.
Timeout specifies the amount of time to wait for the number of servers defined in the Membership field to be up and running. If the timeout period elapses before the quorum membership reaches its specified number, resources will automatically start loading on the servers that are currently up and running in the cluster. For example, if you specify a Membership value of 4 and a timeout value equal to 30 seconds, and after 30 seconds only two servers are up and running in the cluster, resources will begin to load on the two servers that are up and running in the cluster.