Connecting brokers in a collective

A collective is a set of brokers that are fully interconnected and form part of a multibroker network for publish/subscribe applications.

To connect brokers in a collective:

  1. Define the WebSphere MQ channels between the queue managers of each pair of the brokers in the collective; use the standard WebSphere MQ facilities (for example, WebSphere MQ Explorer).
  2. Assign the brokers as members of the collective using the Broker Topology editor in the workbench; they do not have to be connected together using the connect function.
Related tasks
Connecting a broker to a collective
Removing a broker from a collective