PMDF Installation Guide
OpenVMS Edition
21.1 Before You Begin
Prior to running the PMDF-XGS configuration utility you must have
installed PMDF-MTA with PMDF-XGS support and have configured PMDF-MTA.
Refer to Chapters 1, 2, 3, and
4 if you have not already installed and configured PMDF.
The PMDF-XGS configuration utility will prompt for several pieces of
required information. You should be prepared to provide the following:
- The name by which the PMDF system will be known on the SNADS side.
Each SNADS node must be configured to know about this name, so this
name choice should be coordinated with whomever is going to do the
configuration of the SNADS nodes, if that is a person other than
yourself. Note that SNADS names cannot exceed eight characters.
- The names by which the PMDF-XGS transport bridge system will be
known; it will be known by a TCP/IP name from the PMDF-MTA/PMDF-XGS
side, and by a SNADS name from the SNADS side. Again note that each
SNADS node must be configured to know the SNADS name of the PMDF-XGS
transport bridge so this name choice should be coordinated with the
person configuring the SNADS nodes. (As the PMDF-XGS transport bridge
passes all SNADS distributions handed over by the SNADS side
to the PMDF-MTA/PMDF-XGS system, one possibility is to give the
PMDF-XGS transport bridge the same SNADS name as that used for the
PMDF-MTA/PMDF-XGS system itself.)
- The TCP/IP port numbers that the PMDF-XGS transport bridge programs
expect to use when communicating with the PMDF system, as configured in
the
xgs.cmd
script on the PMDF-XGS transport bridge. These
values are normally configured during the PMDF-XGS transport bridge
installation; see Chapter 19 for details and Chapter 20 for an
example.
- The SNADS name of the SNADS node immediately adjacent to the
PMDF-XGS transport bridge, that is, the SNADS node through which all
the SNADS distributions will be routed. You must know the SNADS REN
name; providing the SNADS RGN name also is generally optional, although
in some SNADS networks explicitly specifying the RGN name might provide
a performance improvement.
- You will also be asked to assign a domain name to that SNADS node;
this domain name is the name that will be used from the
PMDF-MTA/PMDF-XGS system side to address the SNADS node. If you want to
let other SMTP hosts send to the SNADS node through PMDF-XGS, then you
will need to add an MX record to the DNS for the domain associated the
SNADS node, so pick a suitable domain name.
- The SNADS name (REN) of every other SNADS node accessible through
this gateway, and domain names of your choosing to associate with each
such additional SNADS node.