Enabling Swarming for elements with smart-serial connection in server mode

For elements with smart-serial connections configured in server mode, Swarming is disabled by default. However, from DataMiner 10.6.6/10.7.0 onwards, if an element can communicate with its data source at startup to specify where data should be sent, you can enable Swarming by setting the Swarming.BypassChecks.Check value in the Protocol.xml file to the value smartSerialAsServer:

<Swarming>
    <BypassChecks>
        <Check>smartSerialAsServer</Check>
    </BypassChecks>
</Swarming>

With this configuration in place, at startup, the element can send a message to the data source to indicate where data should be sent. As a result, the fact that the smart-serial connection is in server mode will no longer be considered a valid reason to prevent the element from being swarmed. See Protocol.Swarming for the generated schema.

Important

Use this bypass only when the element can send a startup message that configures the data source's destination. The setting does not make an otherwise unconfigurable server-mode connection safe to swarm.