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1E 8.1 (on-premises)

MulticastSupport

The behavior of local multicast.

Warning

The Multicast feature is not supported in the Tachyon 5.2 release. This feature is under consideration for re-design and may be available in future versions of Nomad.

Registry value

Default value

Notes

Installer property

MulticastSupport

0x0 (0)

All machines in a single branch must be configured using the same value for this parameter.

If you are not using multicast, deploy the Nomad branch agent with theMODULE.NOMAD.MULTICASTSUPPORT property set to 0 to reduce the noise in Nomad logs.

Prior to Nomad 7.0 multicast was enabled (0x1) by default. Now it is disabled (0x0) by default.

MODULE.NOMAD.MULTICASTSUPPORT

Bit

Hex

Decimal

Description

0x0

0

No Multicast– disables the feature.

0

0x1

1

Data Only Multicast – choose this for a standard Nomad multicast. Data refers to the content of the downloaded package.

Nomad control communications are broadcast as normal on the local subnet. Select this option for standard functionality.

1

0x2

2

Control Only Multicast – control information refers to the communications between Nomad enabled machines, especially for elections.

This may be used if there is more than one subnet in a single location to enable a single Nomad master to be elected for all the subnets.

0x3

3

Control and Data Multicast – data and control information is multicast.

Select this option if a branch has multiple subnets connected by high speed routers.