The as-agent as a Seeder for Remote Clients

A connection to a metaspace through a seeder or a leech is a direct connection to the metaspace. For applications running on hosts that are remote from the metaspace, or separated from it by a firewall, you can connect as a remote client.

You set up a remote client by running an as-agent that provides proxy access to the metaspace for remote clients. The as-agent, in effect, functions as a seeder for the remote client. The command line argument for the as-agent process specifies a “remote listen” URL that the agent uses to listen for data.

As-agents can also implement shared-nothing persistence.

For more information about as-agent, see The as-agent Utility as a Seeder.

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