EntireX Default Broker View

The EntireX Default Broker View is part of the Designer. It displays the status of the EntireX Default Broker and the active RPC Services registered to it. This document covers the following topics:


Opening the Default Broker View

Start of instruction setTo open the EntireX Default Broker View from the EntireX perspective

  • Choose Window > Show View > EntireX Default Broker.

Start of instruction setTo open the EntireX Default Broker View from a non-EntireX perspective

  • Choose Window > Show View > Other > Software AG EntireX > EntireX Default Broker.

A screen similar to the one below appears:

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The screen consists of two panels: Broker and Services. These are described below.

Broker Panel

The following information is provided:

Field Description
Name Name of the EntireX Default Broker.
Status Whether the broker is running or stopped.
TCP Port Number of TCP/IP port.
SSL Port Number of SSL port.
Trace Level Trace level currently used to trace the operations of the broker.
Auto Start Whether the broker should start up automatically.

The following functionality is provided:

Start of instruction setTo stop/start the EntireX Default Broker

  • Choose Stop to stop a running broker or Start to start a broker.

Start of instruction setTo set the trace level for the Default Broker

  • Enter a value under Trace Level. See TRACE-LEVEL under Broker-specific Broker Attributes for details.

Start of instruction setTo enable/disable Default Broker Autostart

  • Set the value of Autostart to "Enabled" or "Disabled" accordingly.

Start of instruction setTo refresh the view

  • Click Refresh in the top-right corner of the EntireX Default Broker to synchronize the view with the current state of the Default Broker.

Service Panel

The following information is provided:

Field Description
Per service Number of Servers Number of servers registered to the service
Requests Total number of requests to the service
Wait for Server Number of times all servers offering this service are occupied and percentage of waits per total number of requests.
Per server Server Name Name of the server.
Host Server host.
Version Server version.

See also Broker CIS Data Structures in the ACI Programming documentation.

The following functionality is provided:

Start of instruction setTo shut down a service

  • Click the Shutdown button assigned to the service to stop all servers that implement this service.

Start of instruction setTo shut down a server

  • Click the Shutdown button assigned to the server to stop the selected server immediately. This terminates the process without waiting for current tasks to finish.

See also ETBCMD: Executable Command Requests in the EntireX Broker documentation.