Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Overview and System Design Guide

Appendix F. Support for Changing Communication Settings

In JP1/Base, which is the prerequisite program for JP1/IM - Manager, the communication settings can be changed to support a variety of network configurations. This allows you to use JP1/IM - Manager even in network configurations that have special requirements, such as the following:

• Specific communication network
  The JP1/IM - Manager and JP1/Base hosts are connected to multiple LANs, but you require them to communicate over a specific LAN only (using IP addresses other than those associated with the host names).
  
• Separate network
  The JP1/IM - Manager and JP1/Base hosts are connected to multiple LANs, but you do not want them to communicate across LANs (they cannot communicate using the IP address associated with the destination host name).
  

To change the communication settings, use the JP1/Base jp1hosts definition file and communication protocol settings file. For details on communication settings, see the description of JP1/Base communication settings for various network configurations in the Job Management Partner 1/Base User's Guide.

The following table describes the communication settings that can be entered in these two files for the functionality provided by JP1/IM - Manager and JP1/Base.

Table F-1 JP1/IM functions and support for communication settings (for viewer-manager communication)

Function	Communication setting
	jp1hosts definition file	Communication protocol settings file
Command execution (JP1/IM - View -> JP1/Base)	Y	Y
Event monitoring (JP1/IM - View -> JP1/IM - Manager (JP1/IM - Central Console))	Y	Y
Object status monitoring (JP1/IM - View -> JP1/IM - Manager (JP1/IM - Central Scope))	Y	Y
IM Configuration Management (JP1/IM - View -> JP1/IM - Manager (IM Configuration Management))	Y	Y
Rule management (JP1/IM - View -> JP1/IM - Rule Operation)	Y	Y

Legend:

Y: The communication setting can be changed, allowing JP1/IM - Manager to be used in a network configuration with special requirements.

(product -> product): Required product-to-product connection.

Table F-2 JP1/IM functions and support for communication settings (for manager-agent communication)

Function	Communication setting
	jp1hosts definition file	Communication protocol settings file
Configuration management (JP1/Base -> JP1/Base)	Y	Y
Command execution (JP1/Base -> JP1/Base)	Y	Y
Event search (JP1/IM - Manager -> JP1/Base)	N	N
Definition collection and distribution (JP1/Base -> JP1/Base)	Y	Y
IM Configuration Management (JP1/IM - Manager -> JP1/Base)	Y	Y

Legend:

Y: The communication setting can be changed, allowing JP1/IM - Manager to be used in a network configuration with special requirements.

N: It may not be possible to use JP1/IM - Manager in a network configuration with special requirements even if the communication settings are changed.

(product -> product): Required product-to-product connection.

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