Restarting the router after a crash

If the router crashes, use the following procedure to restart it. This procedure ensures that all documents that have been received will be processed.

  1. Check the router_in directory for files with the extension vmd_locked.
  2. If there are files with the extension vmd_locked that are more than two minutes old, rename them to a file with the extension vmd_restart.
    Note:
    If multiple instances of the router are running, there will be files with the vmd_locked extension that are being actively processed by the other instances of the router. Do not rename those files.
  3. Depending on a document's processing state, it is possible that a document will fail with an event 210031 "Unable to nonrep document." If this occurs, the files for the document will reside in the directory router_in/reject. If this happens, rename the file with the vmd_locked extension to a file with the extension vmd_restart. Then move the files for the document to the directory router_in dir for processing.

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