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Transport Management: Active-Hot Standby Server Heartbeat Mechanism
The Transport Manager (referred to as the reliability managed object)
is responsible for the heartbeat communication and state maintenance
between the Application Modules. This software is responsible for
monitoring the health and communicating the status of a Network
Service Descriptor (NSD) across servers. Status communication and
heartbeating occurs across all provisioned interfaces.
The heartbeat data in the Transport Manager defines a server group.
Each server in a group includes provisioning for the static public and
private address of every other server in that group. Each server in a
Table 25 Transport Management tab subfield descriptions, continued
Field Value Description
D Type=checkbox
Default=unchecked
Use this checkbox when you
want to delete a checkbox’s
relevant section, indicated by
the bracket in the figure
above.
Interface Configuration:
Transport Enabled
Type=checkbox
Default=checked
Check the box if this
Transport is enabled.
Interface Configuration:
Protocol
Type=string
Default=SIP
This is the protocol this
interface supports.
Interface Configuration:
Transport
Type=string
Range=TCP or UDP
Default=UDP
This is the transport for this
interface.
Interface Configuration:
Address
Type=string
Range=1-50 characters
Default=Private_Service
_Address, Public_
Service_Address
This is the service IP
address label.
Interface Configuration:
Port
Type=string
Range=1024-65535
numbers
Default=5060
This is the port for this
interface. The range is 1024
to 65535.
Interface Configuration:
Params
Type=string
Default=name=sipLscCo
nduit:interface=qfe0
These are the optional
parameters for this interface.
Note: Scroll down to repeat entries in these subfields as needed.