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match. This means that the order of the rules in the rules list is extremely
important, and caution must be applied when modifying it in any way.
10.5.3 Manual assignment
Manual assignment is a feature introduced in AIX 5L WLM. It allows system
administrators and applications to override, at any time, the traditional WLM
automatic assignment (processes’ automatic classification based on class
assignment rules) and force a process to be classified in a specific class.
The manual assignment can be made or canceled separately at the superclass
level, the subclass level, or both. In order to manually assign processes to a
class or cancel an existing manual assignment, a user must have the right level
of privilege (that is, must be the root user, adminuser, or admingroup for the
superclass or authuser and authgroup for the superclass or subclass). A process
can be manually assigned to a superclass only, a subclass only, or to a
superclass and a subclass of the superclass. In the latter case, the dual
assignment can be done simultaneously (with a single command or API call) or at
different times, possibly by different users.
A manual assignment will remain in effect (and a process will remain in its
manually assigned class) until:
► The process terminates.
► WLM is stopped. When WLM is restarted, the manual assignments in effect
when WLM was stopped are lost.
► The class the process has been assigned to is deleted.
► A new manual assignment overrides a prior one.
► The manual assignment for the process is canceled.
In order to assign a process to a class or cancel a prior manual assignment, the
user must have authority both on the process and on the target class. These
constraints translate into the following:
► The root user can assign any process to any class.
► A user with administration privileges on the subclasses of a given superclass
(that is, the user or group name matches the attributes adminuser or
admingroup of the superclass) can manually reassign any process from one
of the subclasses of this superclass to another subclass of the superclass.
► A user can manually assign her own processes (same real or effective user
ID) to a superclass or a subclass for which they have manual assignment
privileges (that is, the user or group name matches the attributes authuser or
authgroup of the superclass or subclass).
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