TRANSFER Installation and Management Guide

Configuring TMANAGER
TMANAGER
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Configuring
TMANAGER
Besides the TRANSFER interactive server, TISERV, and the TRANSFER text server,
TEXTSRV, two additional TRANSFER servers must be configured for TMANAGER:
SMSERV and TSAMPLE. You alter the ASSIGNs and PARAMs through PATHCOM
in the same way that you handle all TRANSFER servers.
SMSERV SMSERV is the interactive system-management server for TRANSFER. All standard
TRANSFER server ASSIGNs and PARAMs are supported by SMSERV. In addition,
SMSERV requires an ASSIGN called CONFIG, which is the location of the GTRSTOP
file. The GTRSTOP file is used by SMSERV to determine the names of the TRANSFER
processes. Without the names of the TRANSFER processes, SMSERV is unable to
notify the processes in the TRECV, TWORK, and TSCHED server classes when the
server log configuration is updated.
The ASSIGN CONFIG is set up by the installation program; you do not need to change
it.
TSAMPLE TSAMPLE is the asynchronous system-management server for TRANSFER. This
server can monitor both the database size and the records in the asynchronous queues
(READY, TIME, NET, and HELD) if configured to do so. When it is not generating a
sample, TSAMPLE checks its configuration every 60 seconds to determine what work
it is to monitor. While generating a sample, TSAMPLE also determines if any alarm
thresholds have been met and if so, TSAMPLE sends an alarm message.
When either the database sample file or the queue sample file is filled, TSAMPLE
continues to monitor the database and TSCHED queues, but it does not attempt to
write any more samples to the full file.
All standard TRANSFER server ASSIGNs and PARAMs are supported by TSAMPLE.
In addition, TSAMPLE requires an ASSIGN called NAMEFILE, which is the fully
qualified name of the TRANSFER NAME file. TSAMPLE uses this file’s location to
determine the location of the files that constitute the TRANSFER Directory Service
database.
The ASSIGN NAMEFILE is set up by the installation program; you do not need to
change it. If you remove the PARAM from the configuration, the TRANSFER
Directory Service database files are not monitored.
TSAMPLE supports three optional parameters: SAMPLETIME, WRITEENABLE, and
ROPENCTLTIME.
The PARAM SAMPLETIME, if found and TRUE, causes the TIME queue to be
monitored with the other asynchronous queues. If the PARAM SAMPLETIME is
either not TRUE or not found, the TIME queue is not sampled.
When you configure this option, consider that, because the TIME queue is large,
monitoring affects performance.
The installation programs do not include this PARAM, so by default the TIME
queue is not sampled.