Use this page to view the field descriptions that are used for the external selection configurations.
External system configurations parameters
Field or Button
Description
IP
The IP address of an external system that you select for whitelisting.
Hostname
The FQDN of the external system that is on the network to which you connect POM.
Action
To edit or delete the IP address and the FQDN.
External selection configuration parameters
Field or Button
Description
Server Port
The server port to which the external system connects.
The default port is 11,000.
Failsafe Timer (msec)
The time for which POM waits for the external selection system to respond to the selection request sent by POM.
The default minimum failsafe time is 20 milliseconds.
The default maximum failsafe time is 500 milliseconds.
The failsafe time configured on the system by default is 100 milliseconds.
Maximum consecutive response timeout
The maximum number of consecutive attempts after which POM stops sending requests to the external server.
If the external system does not respond for x consecutive (x is configurable) requests from POM within the failsafe time, POM does not send subsequent requests to the external selection class and continues with the POM selection logic.
POM tries to send the selection request after y seconds (y is configurable).
The default minimum timeout is 3 seconds.
The default maximum timeout is 5 seconds.
Next attempt interval after maximum timeout (sec)
The duration between the last attempt in which POM stops sending requests to the external server and the next attempt in which POM starts sending requests to the external server.
Heartbeat interval (sec)
The Heartbeat interval in seconds.
The default minimum interval is 15 seconds.
The default maximum interval is 600 seconds.
External selection class
The class path of the external selection class that resides on the external selection server.
Enable external selection for all campaigns
By default, this flag is disabled on POM.
If you enable this flag, external selection becomes applicable for all preview/predictive and progressive campaigns. However, if you disable this flag, external selection becomes applicable after you enable the campaign level flag.
Add
Use this button to configure the details of an external system, such as FQDN and IP address.
Edit
Use this button to edit the existing details of an external system, such as FQDN and IP address.
Delete
Use this button to delete the configured details of an external system.
Save
Use this button to save the parameters that you configure for external selection.
Reset
Use this button to reset parameters to the last saved values.
