IBM Integration Bus, Version 9.0.0.8 Operating Systems: AIX, HP-Itanium, Linux, Solaris, Windows, z/OS

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Using multi-instance brokers

Configure a broker to run in multi-instance mode when you require high availability using WebSphere® MQ.

Before you start:
The set of tasks that describe how to configure a multi-instance broker assumes the following criteria:
  • A network server is configured to host both the shared workpath for the multi-instance broker and the shared directories for the multi-instance queue manager.
  • The network server is shared between two client machines, each of which has a licensed copy of the IBM® Integration Bus and WebSphere MQ products installed.

The steps are true for all operating systems that are supported by IBM Integration Bus and WebSphere MQ except for z/OS®. Multi-instance brokers and multi-instance queue managers are not supported on z/OS.

To configure a broker to run in multi-instance mode, complete the following steps.

  1. Create a shared work path directory on an NFS or NAS server. On Windows you can use a shared UNC path.
  2. Create a WebSphere MQ multi-instance queue manager.
  3. Create a multi-instance broker, by choosing one of the following methods:

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