HOST_SELECTION - UCMD Manager configuration option

Description

The HOST_SELECTION option specifies how the UCMD Manager will select a host, from the list of hosts specified via the REMOTE_HOST option, with which the UCMD Manager will begin its attempts to connect to a remote Universal Broker.

Regardless of how the first host is selected, UCMD Manager processes the list sequentially until either a connection to a remote Universal Broker succeeds or all hosts in the list have been tried.

HOST_SELECTION is ignored if only one host is specified in the REMOTE_HOST list of hosts.

Usage

Method	Syntax	IBM i	UNIX	Windows	z/OS
Command Line, Short Form	n/a
Command Line, Long Form	-host_selection option
Environment Variable	UCMDHOSTSELECTION=option
Configuration File Keyword	host_selection option
STRUCM Parameter	HOSTSELECT(*option)

Values

option specifies how UCMD Manager will select the first entry within a list of hosts specified by the REMOTE_HOST option.

Valid values for option are:

• sequential
  UCMD Manager will select the first host in the list, and then proceed through the hosts in the order in which they appear within the list.

• random
  UCMD Manager will select any host in the list, in no particular order.

  info

  Attempts to connect to a remote Universal Broker begin with this randomly-selected host, and then proceed in a sequential manner, wrapping around the list (if necessary) until the first host selected is reached again.

Default is sequential.