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Enabling Wide Area Network Support

To enable WAN support, you should perform these three procedures:

• Create a network object
• Add an account for the network object
• Add a proxy for each cluster account or local account that will be using the manager

The Job Management Manager startup procedure creates the network object for you. For the manager to function correctly with WAN support, both the network object and the corresponding account must be added, as described below. If they are not, the environment is at risk and may not function correctly.

Note: DECnet is required to enable communication between manager and agent pairs, for proxy authentication only.

The passwords for the SCHED_DECNET object and the SCHED$DECNET UAF account must match to properly facilitate the communication between manager instances across the WAN. To properly synchronize the passwords between the object and the account, run these commands:

$ MCR NCP
NCP> define object SCHED_DECNET password yourpassword
NCP> set object SCHED_DECNET password yourpassword
NCP> exit

$ RUN AUTHORIZE
$ SET DEF SYS$SYSTEM
UAF> MOD SCHED$DECNET/password=yourpassword
UAF> exit

To add the account for the network object, first determine a UIC that is in the same group as the default DECnet account, or is in a group by itself. Then, run AUTHORIZE as follows:

$ RUN AUTHORIZE
UAF> ADD SCHED$DECNET/FLAGS=DISUSER/UIC=uic-spec
UAF> EXIT

Add a proxy for each account that will be using the manager:

$ RUN AUTHORIZE
UAF> ADD/PROXY local_node::local_user local_user/DEFAULT
UAF> EXIT

Note that on cluster member nodes, this proxy needs to be added for each cluster account only, not for each cluster node account. This is needed to allow DECnet to operate in cases such as use of the following command:

$ SCHEDULE MODIFY remote-node::job1/sync=(local-node::job2)

Refer the CA Job Management for OpenVMS 3.1.00 Administration Guide for standard proxy needs and setup. Those specified here are in addition to those specified in the Administrator Guide. Both sets of instructions must be followed. Also, for information on how to set up proxies to allow job synchronization on remote nodes, see Setting Up a Proxy in AUTHORIZE Database.