Question about passive mode for an aggregator

[michaelmckay83]

I would like more information on 'passive' mode for an aggregator. Reading the man pages it seems like you can setup an aggregator to wait for a connection instead of initiating it. My aggregator is not going to be able to connect to the node the sampler is running on, the sampler node must initiate the request. The documentation is a little bit light on details.

Is there additional information somewhere on this? I have not seen any examples of this online or in this project. I do see a reference here: https://github.com/ovis-hpc/ovis/wiki/Configuration-Considerations-and-Best-Practices-%28v4%29#Active_vs_Passive_Connections

[baallan]

Demonstrating the use of passive to handle network restrictions has is not included in readthedocs, the man pages, or the source. We would like to have this feature documented to be able to integrate certain producers at sandia as well.

what is specifically missing is how to tell the producer side that it should connect to the aggregator which has the producer defined as passive.