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Rule Management

The Select Administration panel provides an extensive menu of tools for centralized, fingertip control over load-balancing and selection routes in your local domain:

Active rules: lists the currently active Rules for Select
Component options: sets the active Rules and the Rule mode
Define (value) Group or Select list: sets the processing order for one or more Rules, Rulesets or Groups; Defines a Select List for VTAM route processing.
Display (value) Group or Select list: displays a Group, Value Group, or Select list for viewing or modification
Rule counts: displays how many times each Rule gets used
Rule Definition: contains operands for specifying alias name assignments for a particular session
Rule Display: displays a Rule or Ruleset for modification or viewing
Rule Reload: refreshes the Active Rules with any changes made to the Rules, Rulests, Groups, or Select lists
Rule Test: creates sample sessions to test against your Rules
Statistics: lists session activity that is being monitored by Select
Status: lists the name of the resource, the amount of session traffic assigned to it, and how often it has been used.

Select Rule Definition

Select Rule Definition includes a Rule definition panel, which sets the session parameters, and a Select List, which sets the data traffic routes and the load balancing percentages.

The Rule Definition panel provides a wide range of operands for setting the session - or type of session - that should use a particular Select List, which determines the session's selection route processing and network traffic. In the following Rule, any sessions in the TODC2 network with an application name starting with "CICS" will use the CICSPATH Select List:

Selection List Example

In this case, the CICSPATH Select List will route 90% of the session traffic to a high priority route and the remaining 10% to a low priority route:

Select Rule Example

You can use a variety of rule definition tools to further simplify the definition process, including operand masks.

Select Monitors

Users can display information for the currently allocated resources, including the resource name, the traffic weighting factor assigned to the resource, and the current count of sessions assigned to the resource:

Select Rule Activity

The following example demonstrates the real-time monitoring viewpoint, provided by the Message Queue:

Select Rule Processing

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