Client-server communication in a distributed FSE implementation

An external FSE client communicates with an FSE server through the network using CORBA services. An external client can connect to only one FSE server.

Figure 5 Client-server communication

The network must provide a bidirectional connection between the FSE server and each of the external FSE clients. You can verify the network connection using the FSE tool fse_net. For more information about fse_net, see ”FSE troubleshooting tools” on page 274.

You can check whether a network connection is bidirectional by pinging the server from the client and vice versa. If there is no response to one of the ping commands, the connection is unidirectional only. In this case, FSE cannot perform its basic operations.

Unidirectional connections are provided, for example, if NAT (Network Address Translation) is used between FSE clients and the FSE server.

IMPORTANT: In a distributed or mixed FSE implementation, if the FSE processes on the FSE server or consolidated FSE system are restarted, you must restart the FSE processes on all external FSE clients to resume normal FSE operation.

Configuring the communications settings in a distributed FSE implementation

In a distributed FSE implementation, an FSE client needs to know to which FSE server it belongs. To provide this information, you need to modify the FSE interprocess (client-server) communications settings according to your particular FSE implementation. These settings are affected by your choice of ordinary LAN

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