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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
KDE_TRANSPORT Transmission Control Protocol
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a connection oriented protocol. Connection is made through a port number such as 0-65535.
The connection continues until the application takes it down. Here are the protocol names:
IP.PIPE - tcp IP.SPIPE - secure tcp IP6.PIPE - ipv6 tcp IP6.SPIPE - ipv6 secure tcpThe secure protocols are implemented with the Global Secure Toolkit (GSKIT) component.
The TCP protocol modifiers are listed in the sections that follow.
- PORT
PORT defaults to 1918 for TCP and 3660 for secure TCP.
- SKIP and COUNT
SKIP and COUNT modifiers are used to control the port search algorithm. Default search is for baseport+N*4096 where N is a number from 1 to 15. The SKIP modifier forces it to start with N equal to the SKIP value in the above calculation. The COUNT modifier controls the number of attempts that are made.
- EPHEMERAL
This section explains the three EPHEMERAL modifier values.
- POOL
IBM Tivoli Monitoring processes use opaque ports (also sometimes referred to as ephemeral ports) for communication with the server.
- KDE_TRANSPORT User Datagram protocol
Typically this is not the best choice of protocol for IBM Tivoli Monitoring. Its advantage is a somewhat lower storage requirement.
- KDE_TRANSPORT Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Each IBM Tivoli Monitoring process has an internal web server. The KDE_TRANSPORT Hypertext Transfer Protocols define what protocols are used to access the internal web server. The web server provides access to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Service Console, the Tivoli Enterprise Portal client, the SOAP server tryout page, and the Agent Service Index pages (with Tivoli Monitoring V6.2.2 or higher).
- How to change KDE_TRANSPORT settings
If you decide to change KDE_TRANSPORT you must change the settings on all IBM Tivoli Monitoring tasks, when appropriate.
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