Conditions for Disabling Clients

Administrators can disable individual client processes. A disabled client cannot use TIBCO FTL communications resources, and the FTL server no longer recognizes it as a client. Consider disabling clients in the following situations.

• If a client sends invalid messages that disrupt other clients, disable the misbehaving client so that other clients can continue to communicate.
• If a client consumes more message bandwidth than is appropriate, depriving other clients of communications resources, consider disabling the misbehaving client so that other clients can continue to communicate.
• When you delete or rename an application from the realm definition, all existing client instances of that application implicitly become invalid: that is, the realm no longer supports them. Nonetheless, they continue running. You must explicitly disable those clients.
• When you modify the realm definition, clients that cannot accept the new revision might need to restart. If immediately stopping their messages is critical, you can disable them as a group (and then restart them in some other way).