CS IP filtering: configuring TMDR – Traffic Management Daemon Regulation

To see all my blog posts on IP filtering see here.

If you are using Communications Server IP filtering to allow/deny IP traffic to destinations, you need the TRMD daemon running. With IP filtering you can log when access is allowed/denied.

The TRMD is needed to write the log events.

TRMD started task JCL

//TRMD      PROC  OPT='-P TCPIP -d 1' 
//* 
//*   IBM Communications Server for z/OS 
//*   SMP/E distribution name: EZATRMDP 
//TRMD   EXEC PGM=EZATRMD,REGION=4096K,TIME=NOLIMIT, 
//      PARM=('ENVAR("_CEE_ENVFILE_S=DD:STDENV")/&OPT') 
//STDENV   DD * 
RESOLVER_CONFIG=//'ADCD.Z24C.TCPPARMS(TCPDATA)' 
export TZ=GMT0 
/* 
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*,DCB=(RECFM=F,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=80) 
//SYSIN    DD DUMMY 
//SYSERR   DD SYSOUT=* 
//SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*,DCB=(RECFM=F,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=80) 
//CEEDUMP  DD SYSOUT=*,DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=132,BLKSIZE=132) 

I do not know what authority it needs to run. It runs as userid START1 on my ADCD system.

When you start it, it starts up a job with name TMDR1, and the “started task” TMDR ends.

You stop it using P TMDR1.

Logging

The syslogd daemon needs to be running.

In my /etc/syslog.conf file I have

*.TRMD1.*.info      /var/log/TRMD1I.%Y.%m.%d 
*.TRMD1.*.debug     /var/log/TRMD1D.%Y.%m.%d 

Both of these write the access/denied messages – you would typically just have one of these.