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TIBCO Rendezvous® is the leading low latency messaging product for real-time high throughput data distribution applications. A message can be sent from the TIBCO daemon running on the local machine to a single TIBCO daemon running on a separate host machine or it can be broadcast to several daemons running on multiple machines. Each message has a subject associated with it, which acts as the destination of the message.
A listener, which is itself a TIBCO daemon, can declare an interest in a subject on a specific daemon. Whenever a message is delivered to this subject on the daemon the message is delivered to the listening daemon.
The API Gateway can act as a listener on a specific subject at a TIBCO daemon, in which case it said to be acting as a consumer of TIBCO messages. Similarly, it can also send messages to a TIBCO daemon, effectively acting as a producer of messages. In both cases, the local TIBCO daemon must be configured to talk to the TIBCO daemons running on the remote machines.
For more information on consuming and producing messages to and from TIBCO Rendezvous, see the following topics:
The remainder of this topic describes how to configure a TIBCO Rendezvous daemon. For a more detailed description of how to configure the fields on this dialog please refer to your TIBCO Rendezvous documentation.
You can configure TIBCO Rendezvous daemons under the External Connections tree node in the Policy Studio. Right-click the TIBCO Rendezvous Daemons node, and select Add a TIBCO Rendezvous Daemon. Configure the following fields on the TIBCO Daemon Settings dialog:
Name:
Enter a friendly name for this TIBCO Rendezvous daemon. When configured, this name is available for selection when configuring a TIBCO Rendezvous Listener and a TIBCO Rendezvous filter.
Service:
Communication between TIBCO Rendezvous daemons takes place using Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) or Universal Datagram Protocol (UDP) services. The specified service parameter configures the local TIBCO Rendezvous daemon to use this type of service when sending or broadcasting messages to other TIBCO Rendezvous daemons who are also using this service.
You can specify the service in the following ways:
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By Service Name:
If your network administrator has added an entry for TIBCO Rendezvous in a network database such as NIS (for example,
rendezvous 7500/udp), you can enter the name of the service (for example,rendezvous) in this field. -
By Port Number:
Alternatively, you can enter the port number on which the TIBCO Rendezvous daemon is listening (for example,
7500). -
Default Option:
If you leave this field blank, a default service name of
rendezvousis assumed. For this reason, administrators should add an entry in the network database with this name (for example,rendezvous 7500/udp. This enables you to leave this field blank so that this default service is used.
Network:
If the machine on which the TIBCO Rendezvous daemon is running has more than one network interface, you can specify what interface to use for all communications with other daemons. Each TIBCO Rendezvous daemon can only communicate on a single network, meaning that separate daemons must be configured for each network you want the daemon to communicate on.
For simplicity, you can leave this field blank, in which case the primary network interface is used for communication with other daemons. For more information on how to configure different networks and multicast groups, please see the TIBCO Rendezvous documentation.
Daemon:
The value entered here tells the API Gateway where it can find the TIBCO Rendezvous daemon, which is responsible for communicating with all other daemons on the network. This daemon can be local or remote.
For local daemons you need only specify the port number that the daemon
is running on (for example 6500). Alternatively, you can
leave this field blank to connect to the daemon on the default port.
To connect to a remote daemon, you must specify both the host and port
number of the daemon in this field (for example daemon_host:6500).
