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Metric

Provides the Metric of the network in the cluster. The following table summarizes the attributes of the Metric property.

Attribute Value
Data type
DWORD
Access
Read/write
Structure
CLUSPROP_DWORD
Minimum
1
Maximum
0x0FFFFFFF
Default
100

Remarks

The Metric property is used by the cluster service to select the network path; the network path with the lowest sum of metrics will be used. If the Metric property is set to a value then the AutoMetric property is set to 0.

Examples

The property value portion of a property list entry for Metric can be set with the following example code:

DWORD          MetricData = 50;
CLUSPROP_DWORD MetricValue;

MetricValue.Syntax.dw = CLUSPROP_SYNTAX_LIST_VALUE_DWORD;
MetricValue.cbLength  = sizeof(DWORD);
MetricValue.dw        = MetricData;

Requirements

Minimum supported client
None supported
Minimum supported server
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter

See also

Network Common Properties

CLUSPROP_DWORD

AutoMetric