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Membership Mechanisms

Mechanism
Description
Antigone Membership
"amember" handles the process of gaining access to the group (client), and processes incoming joiin requests (server).
Configurations
retries Number of join attempts (integer, > 0)
interval Interval (in seconds) between join attempts (integer, > 0)
waitleave Flag indicating whether members should wait for leave response before exiting. (true, false)
ejectenabled Flag indicating whether the ejection interface is enabled. (true, false)
ejecttype Identify the means by which rights of a member to initiate ejection are asserted. (enum, values "cert" and "pairkey")
ejctcert Filename of the public and private key files for the ejection credential. (base filename, e.g., mycert -> looks for certificates in files mycert.pub and mycert.priv)
memdist Enumeration enabling/specifying membership distribution. (none=no membership distribution, clear=cleartext with integrity, conf=confidential)
intlen Number of seconds per membership interval. This specifies thje minimal freshness of membership information (integer, > 0)
joinsens Flag indicating whether the membership is join sensitive; membership information is distributed following each member join. (true, false)
leavesens Flag indicating whether the membership is leave sensitive; membership information is distributed following each member leave. (true, false)
ejectsens Flag indicating whether the membership is eject sensitive; membership information is distributed following each member ejection. (true, false)
failsens Flag indicating whether the membership is failure sensitive; membership information is distributed following each member failure. (true, false)


Factotem Inc, Antigone Version 2.0.10, Nov 18, 2002
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