Configuration Overview

The ComAgent establishes the following connections:

Automatic connections between all MPs having the same parent OAM server pair.
Automatic connections between MPs that have different parent OAM servers, according to application-specific connection configuration rules. The application-specific connection configuration rules are provided with the system and augment the configuration rules built into ComAgent.
Automatic connections between MPs with IP preference.
Automatic connections between MPs and NOAM. The ComAgent application provides the configuration rules for these connections with the system.
Manually configured connections between MPs and remote servers.

The automatic and configured connections can be grouped together as Connection Groups. Inserting remote server entries establishes connections to the servers.

Remote servers are configured using the Communication Agent > Configuration > Remote Servers GUI pages. The most important attribute of a Communication Agent Remote Server is an IP Address that can be reached via a server’s Internal Management Interface (IMI). The IP address uniquely identifies the remote server and provides the means by which the Communication Agent can establish transport connections to/from the remote server. The remote server attributes include:

Name
IPv4 Address
IPv6 Address
Connection Mode: {client, server}
Local Server Group: group of servers that should connect to the remote server
IP Address Preference

Note:

Use Communication Agent > Configuration > Remote Servers and Communication Agent > Configuration > Connection Group to perform this configuration.

The Communication Agent > Configuration pages provide a way for you to create and configure Remote Servers and Connection Groups, and to assign a Connection Group to the services. This process can only be done from NOAM.

By default, Communication Agent has the Remote Servers and Connection Status screens enabled.

The configuration is performed in the following order:

Note:

Default configuration of Routed Services has a pre-defined Connection Group associated with it. This screen can be used to manage user-defined Connection Groups associated with the service.