Conference decalp::rtrnotes

695.0. "Question on RTR V3 - frontend, qualifier, facility" by DEKVC::JONGHOLEE () Thu Jun 05 1997 19:15

    Hi,

    Please see my customer, Boram Securities, environments and inform
    me about some questions which were from testing their programs.

    (Environments)

		 AlphaServer 8200		AlphaServer 8200
		 ----------------		----------------
		|RTR V3.1C (128) |	       |RTR V3.1C (128) |
	BackEnd	|UCX V4.1        | VMS Cluster |UCX v4.1        |
		|OpenVMS V6.2-1H3|	       |OpenVMS V6.2-1H3|
		 ----------------	        ----------------
			|	    TCP/IP		|
	[]-----------------------------------------------------------[]
			|				|
		 AlphaServer 1000		AlphaServer 1000
		 ----------------		----------------
	Trans.	|RTR V3.1C (128) |	       |RTR V3.1C (128) |
	Router	|UCX V4.1        |             |UCX v4.1        |
		|OpenVMS V6.2-1H3|	       |OpenVMS V6.2-1H3|
		 ----------------	        ----------------
			|	     TCP/IP		|
	[]-----------------------------------------------------------[]
			|			|	|
		    ---------
	FrontEnd   |RTR V3.1D|	
		   |Win95    |		
		    ---------
		(*) number of FrontEnd nodes are 500.

    (Questions)

    Please inform me

    1.  whether RTR of each frontend will try to re-connect to router,
        while 2 transaction routers have failure.
	if frontends does that, what re-try frequency is.  Also,
	whether user can define the interval or not.

    2.  parameters which I should tune to get the best performance.
	Their network transport is TCP/IP by UCX.

    3.  about default value of each qualifiers to start RTR,
	for instance, /WSDEFAULT, etc.  Actually, since I could not 
	find the values in V3 manuals, I made reference to V2 manual.

    4.  One of parameter, /LINK, for starting RTR was described as
	number of nodes	to link in V2 manual.  I understood this number
	as number of nodes that is physically connected and this is 
	not related to total number of declared facilities by all the
	frontend nodes.  I thought that 1024 is enough for my customer,
	since he has 500 frontends, even if a frontend declares 5
	facilities.

	Please correct my understanding.	

    5.  My customer has 500 frontend nodes and 5 facilities is defined
	for each frontends.  It takes about 40 minutes to complete
	creating 5 facilities at a router node.

	Please inform me why it takes too long and how it can be
	reduced.

    I am sorry for too many questions and hope to hear from you soon.

    Best Regards,
    Jong-Ho Lee.