A bus is a way of interconnecting machines so that they can be
treated as one logical entity. You must first create a bus before you can
add servers or server clusters to that bus.
Why and when to perform this task
To create a bus with a bus member use the administrative console to complete the following steps:
Steps for this task
- Add a bus. See Adding a bus.
- Add a member to the bus. Choose one of the following approaches:
- Adding a server as a new bus member. This
creates a messaging engine with default properties and that uses the default
JDBC data source and Cloudscape JDBC Provider for its data store.
- Adding a cluster as a member of a bus. This
creates a messaging engine for the cluster, with default properties. You must
configure a data store that is accessible from every server that can potentially
run the messaging engine.
- Optional: If required, configure the messaging engine.
See Configuring messaging engine properties.
- Optional: If required, configure the data store for
the messaging engine. Choose
one of the following approaches:
- Restart
the server or, if the member you added was a cluster, restart the eligible
servers in the cluster. The messaging engine starts
when the server starts.
A new bus has been created.
You can now change the configuration of the bus; for example, by
adding additional members, creating bus destinations, and by creating links
to WebSphere MQ networks. You can create other buses and, if required, connect
them together.