Using the Routing Gateway
This chapter explains how to use the Routing Gateway. This chapter covers the following topics:
Activating Routing
Maintaining Routing
Disabling Routing
Routing Gateway Menu Options
This chapter assumes that the Routing Gateway has been properly installed and configured.
!US Federal regulations and VA internal policy prohibit unencrypted transmission of patient information outside the VA's intranet.
!Routing can have a significant impact on network traffic. It is the responsibility of sites using routing to properly manage network demands related to routing. Before activating the routing software, notify your network administrator that there will be an increase (often a significant one) in network traffic to routing destinations.
Activating Routing
The steps below explain how to start the Routing Gateway’s evaluation processor and transmission processor.
ÂBefore performing the following steps, verify that Image Gateways in the routing system are processing images. If images are not being processed, no new entries will be added to the rule evaluation queue.
Starting the Evaluation Processor
1Verify that the MSM server is running on the Routing Gateway. If it is not,
2Open a terminal window and log into the DICOM Gateway software.
3Enter 3 to select “Routing Gateway” from the DICOM Gateway Menu [MAGDMENU].
4Enter 3 to select “Start Evaluation Processor” from the Routing Gateway Menu.
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