7.19. Configuring Agent Communication

Both the JBoss ON agent and server use the same underlying communications services. The types of connections used for agent-server communication are defined through agent preferences and can be edited by changing those preferences. The agent uses two settings for communications:

Both JBoss ON servers and agents use communications layers that are build on the JBoss Remoting framework. Agents support four different transport types:

The behavior of connections between agents and servers can be controlled by setting transport parameters. The connections between agents and servers are defined by strings which look, roughly, like URLs, with this basic format:

protocol://hostname:port/?param1=value&param2=value

For example:

socket://server.example.com:16163/?serverBindAddress=127.0.0.1&serverBindPort=16163&numAcceptThreads=3&maxPoolSize=303&clientMaxPoolSize=304&socketTimeout=60000&enableTcpNoDelay=true&backlog=200

Both servers and agents have a rhq.communications.connector.transport-params configuration settings which allows transport parameters to be set. These parameters are appended to the end of the URL and can configure both server-side and client-side behavior. For example, the backlog parameter is used by JBoss ON servers; with this URL, the server sets its backlog value to 200, but this setting is ignored by agents since they are clients. Likewise, the enableTcpNoDelay parameter is used by agents when they connect to servers, but is ignored by the servers themselves.

For more information on all available transport parameters, see the JBoss Remoting documentation at http://docs.jboss.org/jbossremoting/2.5.4.SP4/guide/html/chapter-configuration.html.