How the clients find the Broker
The facilitates communication between clients
and s. During installation, you are prompted for the host location of the and its port number. This information is stored in the SM_BROKER_DEFAULT
environment variable. This variable is used by all programs to find the . The default host setting for the variable is
localhost
, and
the default port setting is 426.An client performs the following steps to determine the ’s location.
- Verifies whether the ’s location was specified as an option at startup. When this option is specified, no other options are checked.
- Checks the value of the SM_BROKER_DEFAULT environment variable. If this variable is set, no other options are checked.
- Checks if the is running on the host smarts-broker and listening on TCP port 426.
- If smarts-broker is not defined, the program checks port 426 on localhost.The hostname smarts-broker is usually an alias, such as a DNS CNAME.