TS/MP System Management Manual (G06.24+, H06.03+)

Managing the Pathsend Environment
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Pathsend Management Tasks
Pathsend Management Tasks
To enable communication between Pathsend processes and server processes, you
must configure your PATHMON environment to specify:
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The number of LINKMON processes that your PATHMON environment can
support at one time
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The appropriate security to control access to server classes
You cannot configure or control LINKMON processes with PATHCOM commands in
the same way that you control and configure PATHMON-controlled objects. You can,
however, monitor the LINKMON processes, as described later in this section.
Specifying the Maximum Number of LINKMON Processes
Before starting a PATHMON environment, you specify the maximum number of
LINKMON processes that the PATHMON environment can support at one time by
setting the MAXLINKMONS parameter with the SET PATHWAY command.
This example specifies that a maximum of 16 LINKMON processes can access your
PATHMON environment:
= SET PATHWAY MAXLINKMONS 16
If you have Pathsend processes in other systems that need to access server classes in
your PATHMON environment, setting the MAXLINKMONS attribute to the number of
CPUs in your system might not be correct.
Specifying Security
For PATHMON environments that use Pathsend, there are two levels of security to
consider:
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Network-level security
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Server-class-level security
Network Level Security
For Pathsend processes to access server processes, this network conditions must be
met:
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The LINKMON process must be able to open the PATHMON process (to make link
requests).
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The LINKMON process must be able to open the server processes (to send user
requests).
Note. If the MAXLINKMONS attribute is set to 0, any attempt by a Pathsend process to
perform a server-class send operation to a server class in the PATHMON environment fails.
The default value of the MAXLINKMONS attribute is 0.