HP Reliable Transaction Router Version 5.2 for HP Linux x86_64 bit servers (March 2010)

HP Reliable Transaction Router Version 5.2 for 82.43.00
HP Linux x86_64 bit servers
— Select the failover precedence option to choose
between local and cross-site shadow failover.
— Suspend and resume operations to synchronize
database backups with transaction flows.
— Override RTR’s automatic recovery decisions to
allow manual special recovery procedures.
— Specify retry limits for problem transactions.
• Enables the operator to selectively inspect, modify
the state of, or remove transactions from the journal
or the running RTR system.
• Supports anonymous clients, that is, allows clients to
be configured with wildcarded node names.
• Supports compression and decompression of broad-
cast event and transaction reply data to improve net-
work throughput.
• Supports failover between multiple IP addresses for
any host machine with multiple network adapters.
Frontend Features
• Provides the ability for the client to start transaction
branches, where the global transaction may be con-
trolled by RTR.
• Provides the necessary environment to run Reli-
able Transaction Router client applications under HP
Linux x86_64 bit as part of a Reliable Transaction
Router application network (facility).
• Provides client functionality in a production environ-
ment.
• Uses TCP/IP IPv4 as the underlying network trans-
port.
• Supports transactional and broadcast (nontransac-
tional) messages.
• Supports router load balancing in a facility.
• Supports automatic router failover in the event of a
communication link failure.
• Supports Reliable Transaction Router system man-
agement operations.
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
Any hardware that supports the Redhat Linux Version
5.2 operating system on HP x86_64 servers.
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
Reliable Transaction Router runs with Redhat Enterprise
Linux AS/ES Version 5.2
The following table lists version of Redhat Cluster suite
and GFS supported for Redhat Enterprise Linux AS/ES
version 5.2 of the operating system:
Redhat Enterprise
Linux AS/ES Redhat Cluster suite GFS
5.2 GFS is bundled with Redhat
Linux 5.2
One of the following:
• TCP/IP as provided by the operating system.
OPTIONAL SOFTWARE
• Remote execution software to support system man-
agement from remote nodes.
• Microsoft-supported Windows-based browser for
system management running on a Windows PC: In-
ternet Explorer Version 6.0 or higher.
• Use of the RTR XA interface requires ORACLE9 Ver-
sion 9.2.0.2.
Reliable Transaction Router applications can be written
using the RTR C or C++ APIs and compiled using the
C or C++ compiler that comes with the Linux systems
on which RTR is supported.
GROWTH CONSIDERATIONS
The minimum hardware/software requirements for any
future version of this product may be different from the
requirements for the current version.
DISTRIBUTION MEDIA
The RTR software and documentation for Reliable
Transaction Router is available on CD-ROM.
SOFTWARE LICENSING
This software is furnished only under a license.
HP RTR is Per Socket Licensed (PSL) with one license
required for each socket which is active in the system or
hard partition. If additional processors are later added
to the system or hard partition, each socket requires an
additional PSL.
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