NetBIOS Adapter

Architecture
- Kernel
- Message Servers
- Adapters
  - IBM MQSeries®
  - Microsoft® MSMQ
  - TCP Adapter
  - NetBIOS Adapter
  - LU6.2 Adapter
- Filters
Redundancy
Requirements
Licensing

The NetBIOS Adapter is a high performance messaging adapter that can be coupled with other adapters to provide a very wide array of messaging technology solutions. Examples of these pairings are listed below.

Example Adapter Pairing	Pairing Purpose
NetBIOS to MQ	Allows for transitioning of NetBIOS messaging technology to/from IBM MQSeries® messaging technology. Also allows for messages to be modified, duplicated, eliminated, rerouted or simply audited.
NetBIOS to MSMQ	Allows for transitioning of NetBIOS messaging technology to/from Microsoft® MSMQ messaging technology. Also allows for messages to be modified, duplicated, eliminated, rerouted or simply audited.
NetBIOS to TCP	Allows for NetBIOS to TCP sockets transitions. The choice of filters additionally provides for NetBIOS to/from Web Services, NetBIOS to/from HTTP, NetBIOS to/from .Net applications, and NetBIOS to/from Java applications.
NetBIOS to NetBIOS	Used whenever the messages in a NetBIOS message flow need to be modified, duplicated, eliminated, rerouted or simply audited.
NetBIOS to LU6.2	Provides a NetBIOS interface to older IBM systems that support LU6.2.
NetBIOS to LoopBack	In this scenario, the LoopBack Adapter doesn’t provide any meaningful functionality. However, the Filter in the LoopBack adapter can provide a data path to either .Net applications or Java applications. This thus creates a NetBIOS to local application messaging interface.

Features

Supports 254 connections
Supports specific or non-specific NetBIOS name client and server pairs
Supports delivery confirmation
Supports selection of NetBIOS adapter
Has the ability to wait for a particular response before proceeding
Can have multiple instances of the Plexus Message Broker on the same server providing more than 254 connections
Provides auditing of received and sent messages
For every session, can view last message received and sent, as well as all messages received and sent

Configuration Attributes

Configuration Attribute	Acting as Client	Acting as Server
Character Translation	Yes	Yes
LANA Number	Yes	Yes
Listen Name	Yes
Listen Peer Name	Yes
MyName		Yes
Peer Name		Yes
Transactional	Yes	Yes