About Broadcasting

Broadcasting concepts

Broadcast statuses

Examples

About broadcasting

Via the Axway Composer Broadcast Agent, you transfer objects from the design environment to the run-time environment.

The Broadcast Agent manages the following broadcast operations:

• Send to Server
• Send to Server Complete
• Commit (Transfer CFT only)
• Remove from Server
• One Click Commit

You can either launch broadcast operations from the navigator pane or you can create a new broadcast in the Broadcast Browser.

In both case, the Broadcast Browser enables you to:

• track the progress of all broadcast operations
• restart a broadcast on a Axway Server in error
• cancel a broadcast on a Axway Server in error
• force a broadcast on a Axway Server in error

Broadcast statuses

When you create a Send to Server broadcast object, the possible broadcast statuses are as illustrated in the following diagram.

The broadcast status can be any of the following:

• Under Definition: the new broadcast object is created.
• In Progress: the broadcast operation is started.
• Normal Termination: the broadcast operation was successful on all Servers.  
• Abnormal Termination: the broadcast operation failed on all Servers.
• Wait For User Action: the broadcast operation involves more than one Server and failed on at least one of them.
• Forced: the broadcast operation was manually forced on a Server in error.

Examples

The following examples illustrate what can happen during a Send to Server operation for a Transfer CFT Channel and for an Integrator Integration.

What happens when you send a Transfer CFT Channel to Server?

When you send a Transfer CFT Channel to Server, the configuration is sent to two Servers. The Channel status changes to BroadcastInProgress.

If the broadcast is successful on both Servers:

• The status of the broadcast object changes to Normal Termination.
• The status of the Channel is set to ToBeCommitted.

If the broadcast is unsuccessful on both Servers:

• The status of the broadcast object changes to Abnormal Termination.
• The Channel status returns to Checked.

If the broadcast is successful on one Server but not the other:

• The broadcast object passes to Wait For User Action.
• The Channel status remains BroadcastInProgress.
• The user intervenes manually to restart, cancel or force the broadcast on the Server in error For details, seeUser actions on broadcasts in error.

What happens when you send an Integrator Integration-Task to Server?

When you send a Axway Integrator Integration-Task to Server, you send the configuration to a single Server. The Integration-Task status changes to Broadcast in Progress.

If the broadcast is successful on the Server:

• The Integration-Task status changes to Committed.

If the broadcast is unsuccessful on the Server:

• The Integration-Task status is set to Checked.