Communication is performed via a series of Web Service calls. These are simply portals to call the process parts to run. If this is made as simple as possible, these simply start the process parts, and fail only if they cannot.
Remote Web Service Calls
Method | Description |
|---|---|
Remote1Start | To start the Replication process on the REMOTE System, this tells the REMOTE System to get the non-static data. |
Remote2Start | To tell the REMOTE System that the Transmission file is on the Remote System and to begin processing it. |
RemoteStop | To tell the REMOTE System to cancel the current Replication process. |
Local Web Service Calls
Method | Description |
|---|---|
Local2Start | To tell the LOCAL System that the data is available. |
Local3Start | To tell the LOCAL System that the update has completed successfully. |
LocalStop | To tell the LOCAL System that an error occurred. |
General Web Services Calls
Method | Description |
|---|---|
GetProcessStatus | To get the status for a location. |
ShowVersion | To get the version of the running software. |
Web Service Configuration
The Web service has a number of configuration settings. It requires to know where Python is installed and where the Python scripts that form the ‘Entities’ are located.
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