Setting up the router service

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Rational Synergy requires a dedicated TCP port for its router service. To reserve this port, add a Rational Synergy router service entry to the /etc/services file or its NIS equivalent. You must edit the services file as user root.

The router service entry in the /etc/services file has the following syntax:

router_service router_port/tcp  # comment

The optimal /etc/services router service entry is:

ccm7.1_router    5412/tcp    # Rational Synergy router port

The first column is the service name, which must be ccm7.1_router. The second column starts with the port number, which can be any deallocated, unreserved port. On most systems, port numbers in the range of 0 to 1023 are reserved (privileged). If port 5412 is not in use, use it because it is reserved for Rational Synergy by the Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA).

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You need this information during installation. If you do not have a dedicated port defined when you install Rational Synergy, the installation program prompts you to choose one.

Note: For heterogeneous installations, you need only one Rational Synergy router process if the ccm_home/etc directory is linked to a single location. Even so, you must have separate Rational Synergy router processes for separate releases and for separate networks. You can also run the router on a Windows machine.

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