UDP Emit Service (com.ibi.agents.XDUDPEmitAgent)

Syntax:

com.ibi.agents.XDUDPEmitAgent

Description:

The UDP Emit service allows you to configure a service to transmit a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) message packet to a specified host.

Parameters:

Parameter	Description
Host	The host name or IP address of the machine to which the UDP message packet will be sent.
Port	The port number of the host to which the UDP message packet will be sent.
Prepend Packet Length	Determines whether to prepend the data packet length. Select one of the following values from the drop-down list. true. The UDP message packet will contain a length prefix. The emitter calculates the binary length of the message. This length is exclusive of the four byte packet length. The length is then prepended to the packet. false. The UDP message packet will not contain a length prefix. By default, false is selected.

Parameter

Description

Host

The host name or IP address of the machine to which the UDP message packet will be sent.

Port

The port number of the host to which the UDP message packet will be sent.

Prepend Packet Length

Determines whether to prepend the data packet length. Select one of the following values from the drop-down list.

true. The UDP message packet will contain a length prefix. The emitter calculates the binary length of the message. This length is exclusive of the four byte packet length. The length is then prepended to the packet.
false. The UDP message packet will not contain a length prefix.

By default, false is selected.

Note: Due to the nature of UDP, the only error checking that is performed is whether the host machine can be reached. Message packets are sent to the host with no guarantee that the packet was received or was processed by the specified host system.