Determining the communication paths

BARR/NJE

Work with your host programmer to determine which host NJE nodes BARR/NJE needs to communicate with and the relationship of those nodes to each other, if any. This information determines how many Barr nodes you need to define at the host and on the BARR/NJE computer, how many entries you need to make in the BARR/NJE routing table, and how many PUs you need to define in Microsoft SNA Server, Microsoft HIS, or Microsoft SNA Workstation.

In the following graphic, the BARR/NJE computer will connect directly to the unrelated HOST1 and HOST2 nodes, so two Barr nodes are required. BARR/NJE also needs to communicate with the HOST4 and HOST5 nodes, but can do so through the HOST1 node. In this example, HOST1, HOST2, HOST4, and HOST5 are called destination nodes, because they are destinations for jobs. HOST3 is an intermediate node An NJE node situated between an origin node and a destination node. See node., because it will not process jobs but will be used to reach HOST4.

BARR/NJE Nodes

BARR1 HOST1

BARR2 HOST2

BARR1 HOST4

BARR1 HOST5

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