Axway Composer > Setting up the infrastructure > CommNetwork > Creating CommNetworks

Creating CommNetworks

Typically, the CommNetwork is the first object that you define since the Host and Axway Servers must reuse an existing CommNetwork.

Complete the General tab.

Field	Description
Name	Enter a mandatory name for this CommNetwork. The name you enter here is used to reference a given CommNetwork throughout the software.
Label	Enter an optional free-text description for this CommNetwork.
Status	This field displays the current status of the CommNetwork, set to ToBeChecked by default. You cannot directly change the status in this field.
CommNetwork type	From the drop-down list, select a network type for this object. You cannot modify this value once it is set. Select the network type. For example: TCP (default) X.25 SNA LU6.2 ASY Note: The list of available CommNetwork types depends on the Axway products installed with Composer.

Complete the Attributes tab to add your own user attributes to the CommNetwork.
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1. Click on the toolbar to add a new attribute to the table. The left column displays the attribute name and the right column displays the attribute value.
2. Position the cursor in the Name field and enter an attribute name. You can enter up to 32 alphanumeric characters.
3. Position the cursor in the Value field and enter a value. To define multiple possible values for the same attribute: save, delete the value in the Value field, enter the new value and press enter.
You can then use the Find feature in the Entity Browser to search for objects based on their user attributes. For example, you could search for all objects with the user attribute c = UK. In addition, depending on the Axway product, you can also use an attribute name in a DML expression.
The CommNetwork dialog box also comprises the following two optional standard tabs:

Description

Signature

After you define the CommNetwork, you can use the CommNetwork and refine its definition for a specific: