1. Advanced PHINMS Training

2. Meet the PHINMS Team CDC Program Business Steward – Jennifer McGehee
PHINMS Team (ICF/CGI Federal Contractors)
Sheila Hannon (PHINMS Project Manager)
Tavan Jones (PHINMS Product Support and Technical Team Lead)
Jay Jemal (PHINMS Lead Developer)
Charlie Peng (PHINMS Developer)
Carl Marshall (PHINMS Product Support Engineer)
Joseph Mai (PHINMS Product Support Eningeer)
Sunil (Kumar) Nakkerthi (PHINMS Product Engineer)

3. Advanced Features of PHINMS
Direct-send vs. Route-Not-Read
Folder-Polling vs. Database-Polling
Routing with Service/Action Pairs
Alarms/Alerts
Chunking

4. Direct-Send vs. Route-Not-Read
What is direct-send?
Point-to-Point transmission
Point A  Point B
What is route-not-read?
Point-to-Intermediary-to-Point Transmission
Point A  Point C
Point B  Point C

5. Direct-Send

6. Route-Not-Read

7. Advantages and Disadvantages Direct-Send and Route-not-Read
Feature
Direct-Send
Route-not-Read
Scalability
Unlimited
Limited
Reliability
High – provides end-to-end transport status
Medium – provides link-level (not end-to-end) transport status
Single point of failure
None
Yes
Liability for Intermediary Organization (RNR Hub)
High
Privacy for Messaging Nodes
Higher
Lower
Deployment Cost
Low
Infrastructure Needs

8. Folder-Polling vs. Database-Polling
What is Database-Polling?
Requires database inserts
What is Folder-Polling?
Allows files to be dropped in preconfigured folders
Note: PHINMS Polls and processes messages in both options

9. Routing Incoming Messages

10. Alerts and Alarms Automatic E-Mail Notification System Alarms
Ability for PHINMS to send s to a distribution list when either the PHINMS Sender, Receiver, or Poller encounters a fatal error
The distribution list is configurable
System Alarms
View System Alarms - ability to view system generated alarms
Acknowledge System Alarms - ability to acknowledge an alarm and document its resolution
Message Error Resolution - ability to view old alarms in the console
Delete System Alarms – ability to delete alarms from the console

11. Message Chunking PHINMS Message Size limit <= 10Mb
PHINMS Sender can be configured to send larger files in “chunks”
Chunking is transparent to sending and receiving applications
With chunking, much larger files can be sent
Isn’t compatible with Route-Not-Read

12. PHINMS User Support Contact Information
PHINTech Helpdesk
Questions?