The listener process accepts remote connections via TCP/IP or shared memory communications protocol for the local TFS instance. By default, the listener is disabled when the TFS is initialized. The listen option, when enabled, will start the listener threads when the TFS is initialized.

This option is not required to start the listener process. The process can be enabled and disabled programmatically for the local TFS at any time using C function calls (rdm_tfsEnableListener() and rdm_tfsDisableListener()), or C++ function calls (RDM_CPP::TFS::EnableListener() and RDM_CPP::TFS::DisableListener()) within the application.

Also, if the listener is automatically started using the listen option, it can still be disabled and reenabled using the functions mentioned above.

Default Value: If the Listen option is not defined, the default value of OFF is used.

Example: Listen=OFF

See also: tcp; sharedmem

Boolean Values Accepted

The following values can be accepted boolean values:

TRUE Values	FALSE Values
1	0
On	Off
True	False

String values above are not case-sensitive.

TFS Instantiation Options

This option can only be set after the TFS is allocated and before it is initialized. Some of the functions that can be used to set this option are listed below:

If the rdm-tfs utility is being used to instantiate a TFS, command line options are used to set options affecting TFS startup.