Forcing a Channel To Be Sent

If you want to send all of the Distributions in a Channel outside of Channel's the normal Send schedule, you can manually force the distribution process.

Assuming a new Distribution has been built and the Channel's Send schedule is not ready to fire, do one of the following to force a Channel to be sent:

• Using the ZfS Management role in iManager, click Channel > Distribute Channel.
• In ConsoleOne, you have a two-step process:

  1. Click the Channel object > click Properties > click the Schedule tab > select Run Immediately > click OK > right-click the Distributor object > click Refresh Distributor.

  2. After the Distribution has been sent, click the Channel object > click Properties > click the Schedule tab > select the schedule that the Channel previous had > click OK.

As soon as a Subscriber receives an entire Distribution, it will extract it according to the Subscriber's Extract schedule.