A collective is a set of
brokers that are fully interconnected and form part of a multi-broker network
for publish/subscribe applications.
To connect brokers
in a collective, do the following:
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).
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.