Compaq Reliable Transaction Router manual Preface, Purpose of this Document, Document Structure

Preface

Purpose of this Document

The goal of this document is to assist an experienced system manager, system administrator, or application programmer to understand the Reliable Transaction Router (RTR) product.

Document Structure

This document contains the following chapters:

•Chapter 1, Introduction to RTR, provides information on RTR technology, basic RTR concepts, and RTR terminology.

•Chapter 2, Architectural Concepts, introduces the RTR three-layer model and explains ths use of RTR functions and programming capabilities.

•Chapter 3, Reliability Features, highlights RTR server types and failover and recovery scenarios.

•Chapter 4, RTR Interfaces, introduces the management and programming interfaces of RTR.

•Chapter 5, The RTR Environment, describes the RTR system management and runtime environments, and provides explicit pointers to further reading in the RTR documentation set.

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