Managing Communication Channels

Prerequisites

You have accessed the communication channel monitor and performed a search. For more information, see Searching Communication Channels .

In the communication channel monitor you can find a particular communication channel and change it as necessary.

Select the communication channel.

It is also possible to select several communication channels at once.
Choose one or more of the following options:
- Activate or deactivate external control. For more information, see Controlling a Communication Channel Externally .
- If external control is deactivated, you can control the communication channel as follows:
  - Manually, by choosing Start and Stop .
  - Automatically with scheduled availability times. For more information, see Planning Channel Availability .
  Note
  Messages that are sent to stopped channels do not undergo retry attempts. They are not rescheduled until the channel is started again.
- By choosing Automatic Control , you can schedule the availability times for communication channels that you want to control automatically and not manually.
- For channels whose status is not Stopped , you can choose Ping Channel to check the status of the connection for the selected channel.
  
  The system displays information about the health status of the channel.