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- Copyright (c) 2019 Nokia
- Copyright (c) 2018-2019 AT&T Intellectual Property.
+ Copyright (c) 2019 Nokia
+ Copyright (c) 2018-2019 AT&T Intellectual Property.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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- Mnemonic rmr.7.xfm
- Abstract The manual page for the whole RMr library
- Author E. Scott Daniels
- Date 29 January 2019
+ Mnemonic rmr.7.xfm
+ Abstract The manual page for the whole RMR library
+ Author E. Scott Daniels
+ Date 29 January 2019
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-&h1(RMr Library)
+&h1(RMR Library)
&h2(NAME)
- RMr -- Ric Message Router Library
+ RMR -- Ric Message Router Library
&h2(DESCRIPTION)
-RMr is a library which provides a user application with the ability
-to send and receive messages to/from other RMr based applications
-without having to understand the underlying messaging transport environment (e.g. Nanomsg)
+RMR is a library which provides a user application with the ability
+to send and receive messages to/from other RMR based applications
+without having to understand the underlying messaging transport environment (e.g., SI95)
and without needing to know which other endpoint applications are currently
available and accepting messages.
-To do this, RMr depends on a routing table generated by an external source.
+To do this, RMR depends on a routing table generated by an external source.
This table is used to determine the destination endpoint of each message sent by mapping the
message type T (supplied by the user application) to an endpoint entry.
Once determined, the message is sent directly to the endpoint.
applications.
&space
-RMr functions do provide for the ability to respond to the specific source
+RMR functions do provide for the ability to respond to the specific source
instance of a message allowing for either a request response, or call
response relationship when needed.
It is the responsibility of the route table generator to know which endpoints
belong to which groups, and which groups accept which message types.
Once understood, the route table generator publishes a table that is ingested
-by RMr and used for mapping messages to end points.
+by RMR and used for mapping messages to end points.
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The following is a simple route table which causes message types 0 through 9 to
&ex_start
meid_map | start
mme_ar | control1 | meid000 meid001 meid002 meid003 meid004 meid005
- mme_ar | control2 | meid100 meid101 meid102 meid103
+ mme_ar | control2 | meid100 meid101 meid102 meid103
meid_map | end | 2
&ex_end
This table indicates that the application (endpoint) &ital(control1) "owns" 6 MEIDs
-and &ital(control2) owns 4.
-When message type 0 is sent, the MEID in the message will be used to select the
-endpoint via this table.
+and &ital(control2) owns 4.
+When message type 0 is sent, the MEID in the message will be used to select the
+endpoint via this table.
&space
The MEID table will update the existing owner relationships, and add new ones; it
is necessary to send only the changes with the add/replace (mme_ar) entries in
-the table.
+the table.
When necessary, MEIDs can be deleted by adding an &cw(mme_del) record to the table.
The following example illustrates how this might look:
&ex_start
meid_map | start
mme_ar | control1 | meid000 meid001 meid002 meid003 meid004 meid005
- mme_ar | control2 | meid100 meid101 meid102 meid103
+ mme_ar | control2 | meid100 meid101 meid102 meid103
mme_del| meid200 meid401
-meid_map | end | 1
+meid_map | end | 3
&ex_end
&h3(Route Table Syntax)
&ex_end
&space
A round robin group is one or more endpoints from which one will be selected to receive
-the message.
+the message.
When multiple endpoints are given in a group, they must be separated with a comma.
An endpoint is the IP address and port (e.g. 192.158.4.30:8219) or DNS name and port of the
application that should receive the message type.
-If multiple round-robin groups are given, they must be separated by a semicolon, and
+If multiple round-robin groups are given, they must be separated by a semicolon, and
&h3(MEID Map Syntax)
-The MEID map is similar to the route table.
-Entries are used to add or replace the ownership of one or more MEIDs (mme_ar) or to
+The MEID map is similar to the route table.
+Entries are used to add or replace the ownership of one or more MEIDs (mme_ar) or to
delete one or more MEIDs (mme_del).
The following is the syntax for the MEID map.
meid_map | start
mme_ar | <owner-endpoint> | <meid> [<meid>...]
mme_del | <meid> [<meid>...]
-meid_map | end | <count>
+meid_map | end | <count> [| <md5sum>
&ex_end
&space
observed relationship is used.
Each of the lists of MEIDs are blank separated.
+&space
+The optional <md5sum> on the &ital(end) record should be the computed MD5 hash for all
+records which appear between the start and and records.
+This allows for a tighter verification that all data was received exactly as the
+route manager transmitted them.
+
&h3(Environment)
To enable configuration of the library behaviour outside of direct user application
-control, RMr supports a number of environment variables which provide information
+control, RMR supports a number of environment variables which provide information
to the library.
The following is a list of the various environment variables, what they control
-and the defaults which RMr uses if undefined.
+and the defaults which RMR uses if undefined.
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.** the list of environment vars supported