Monitoring and administering channels and receivers

This section describes the administration procedures that can be used to perform maintenance on existing channels.

Channel administration

The following menu items are available from the Actions menu on the Channel List tab for both JMS and file channels.


Menu option	What it does
Open/Update	Open a channel to change its configuration parameters. Update to save changes you made.
Delete	Deletes a channel.
Activate/Deactivate	Activates or deactivates all enabled receivers associated with the channel. You might do this, for example, if you are troubleshooting a communication problem and you want to shut down all receivers while you do so.
Reset	Synchronizes the channel with information about it stored in the internal database. You might use this if you are troubleshooting issues with communication.
Scan Now (file channels only)	This option performs an immediate scan of the monitoring directory regardless of when the next scan is scheduled to occur. This feature can be useful in situations, such as: A file is needed before the next scheduled scan. For troubleshooting purposes, if files are not being processed as expected.

The following menu items are available from the Actions menu on the Receiver List tab for both JMS and file receivers.


Menu option	What it does
Open/Update	Open a receiver to change its configuration parameters. Update to save changes you made.
Delete	Deletes a receiver permanently.
Activate/Deactivate	Activates or deactivates an individual receiver.
Enable/Disable	When the grid starts, Infor Process Automation attempts to start all enabled receivers. For all enabled channels, if you want to ensure that a particular receiver is not started in that situation, you can disable it. A disabled receiver cannot be activated. When you are ready for the receiver to be active again, use Enable to re-enable it here and then activate it.