PMDF System Manager's Guide

40.6.3 Notifications for Multiple Mailboxes by a Remote Message Router or by a non-PMDF Cluster Member

If you have defined more than one PMDF-MR mailbox on a remote Message Router then a different logical name must be defined for each one. The same is the case if you have defined more than one PMDF-MR mailbox within a local cluster but where not all of the local cluster members can run PMDF Process Symbiont queues (as for instance if not all the cluster members are licensed for PMDF). Unfortunately, as these logical names require non-printable binary information in the user data portion of the task specification, DCL cannot be used to create their definitions. A stand-alone utility program is provided with PMDF-MR. The file

PMDF_EXE:pmdf_mr_notify.exe

should be copied to a convenient location on the remote Message Router node or nodes, or the non-PMDF cluster members; typically the SYS$COMMON:[sysmgr] directory is a convenient location.

Note

Permission is granted by Process Software allowing the execution of the pmdf_mr_notify.exe utility on remote or non-PMDF machines even if such machine are not licensed for PMDF or PMDF-MR.

The utility is then used to define the appropriate logical names as follows:

$ PMDF_MR_NOTIFY == "$SYS$MANAGER:pmdf_mr_notify" $ PMDF_MR_NOTIFY node mailbox-name-1 logical-1 $ PMDF_MR_NOTIFY node mailbox-name-2 logical-2

where node is the DECnet node name of the system running PMDF-MR and mailbox-name-1 and mailbox-name-2 are the names of two different Message Router mailboxes that have been created for PMDF-MR on the remote Message Router. logical-1 and logical-2 are the corresponding logical names used with /NOTIFY on those mailbox definitions.

For example, given the two PMDF-MR gateway mailboxes:

PMDF_X Notify=PMDF_MR_NOTIFY_X PMDF_Y Notify=PMDF_MR_NOTIFY_Y

and a remote PMDF-MR node called GATEWY, you need to issue the following commands on the Message Router system in order to enable remote notification:

$ PMDF_MR_NOTIFY == "$SYS$MANAGER:pmdf_mr_notify" $ PMDF_MR_NOTIFY GATEWY PMDF_X PMDF_MR_NOTIFY_X $ PMDF_MR_NOTIFY GATEWY PMDF_Y PMDF_MR_NOTIFY_Y

Once again, remember that use of the PMDF_MR_NOTIFY utility is not required if you are using but a single PMDF-MR mailbox on the remote Message Router. (Nor is it necessary even when using multiple PMDF-MR mailboxes if running on a local cluster with PMDF on all the systems.)

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