Network Deployment (Distributed operating systems), v8.0 > Reference > Custom properties
TCP transport channel custom properties
If you are using a TCP transport channel, you can use TCP transport channel custom properties to configure internal TCP transport channel properties.
To add a TCP transport channel custom property, perform the following actions.
- In the admin console, click...
Servers > Server Types, and then follow one of the following paths:
- Application servers > server_name
and then select one of the following options, depending on the type of chain you are creating:
- Expand SIP container settings, and click SIP container transport chains.
- Expand Web container settings, and click Web container transport chains.
- Expand Server messaging, and click either Messaging engine inbound transports or WebSphere MQ link inbound transports.
- Proxy servers, and then expand HTTP proxy server settings, and click Proxy server transports and select either HTTPS_PROXY_CHAIN or HTTP_PROXY_CHAIN. Then click HTTP proxy inbound channel
- Select the transport chain that includes the TCP channel for which to specify the custom property.
- Select the TCP inbound channel.
- Click Custom properties > New, expand General properties, and specify the name of the custom property in the Name field and a value for this property in the Value field. We can also specify a description of this property in the Description field.
- Click Apply or OK.
- Click Save to save the configuration changes.
- Restart the server.
The following TCP transport channel custom property or properties is provided with the product. They are not shown on the settings page for a TCP transport channel.
listenBacklog
Use the listenBacklog property to specify the maximum number of outstanding connection requests that the operating system can buffer while it waits for the application server to accept the connections. If a client attempts to connect when this operating system buffer is full, the connect request is rejected. The value of this property is specific to each transport.
If control the number of concurrent connections, use the Maximum open connections field on the admin console TCP transport channel settings page.
Data type Integer Default 511
soReuseAddr
Use the soReuseAddr custom property to control bind behavior. When the WAS is restarted, if the inbound TCP channels have problems trying to bind the listening socket, errors are printed into the SystemOut file until either the bind is successful or the number of allowed bind attempts has been passed. This custom property helps to avoid repeated error messages during the bind process.
For inbound TCP channel binding environments, you can avoid the repeated error messages by using the SoReuseAddr custom property to affect TCP inbound channel processing. When SoReuseAddr is set to 1 , the TCP channel is forced to try each bind attempt with the re-use option set to true on the socket. The restart of the WAS processes first binding attempt, despite those sockets in TIME_WAIT state.
The first restart after applying the soReuseAddr property processes the previous instance of binding (which was bound with false). Two restarts might be required before re-use success is achieved with re-use set to true all the time. Also, you can wait until all the TIME_WAIT sockets have disappeared before restarting.
Data type Integer Default 0
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