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A default compute pool is where a job runs when it doesn’t name a pool itself. You can set two levels of default from the data plane page: your company’s default for the data plane, and — if you own the data plane — the data plane default that applies to everyone collaborating on it. See Compute Pools › Default compute pool resolution for how the levels rank and how to set them through the API.

Prerequisites

  • A Narrative account with access to the data plane
  • At least one active compute pool on that data plane
  • To set the data plane default: ownership of the data plane

Set a default

1

Open the data plane's Compute Pools tab

The tab lists the active pools on the data plane, including pools your company reaches as a collaborator.
2

Choose the action on the pool's row

  • Set as My Company’s Default appears on any active pool the tab lists, whether your company owns it or reaches it as a collaborator.
  • Set as Data Plane Default appears on the data plane owner’s own active pools.
3

Confirm the change

The Default column marks the pool each level has named. When your company’s default supersedes the data plane’s, the data plane’s mark is greyed out.
Setting or clearing either default also moves the compute pool selected in the context selector onto whichever pool now resolves. The selector’s pool is sent as the job’s compute_pool_id — level 1 of the chain — so a session left pinned to the previous pool would outrank the default you just set.

Check the defaults in force

The data plane’s Overview tab reports both levels side by side: Because level 3 outranks level 4, the data plane’s default stays on the page even when your company’s own default is the one in force. It renders read-only for a collaborator, so you can still see what you would fall back to if you cleared yours.

Compute Pools

How the default resolution chain decides where a job runs

Using the Context Selector

Choose the data plane and compute pool for your session

Archive a Compute Pool

Clear a pool’s default references before retiring it