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The Broker maintains a database of components that are active or have completed and waiting for restart or reconnection. The component information maintained by the Broker determines the current state of the component. This state information is required by the Broker to determine if a restart or reconnect request from a Manager is acceptable or not. The Broker's component information can be viewed with the Universal Query utility.
One piece of component information maintained by the Broker is the component's communication state. The communication state primarily determines what state the Server is in regarding its network connection with a Manager and the completion of the user process and its associated spooled data.
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