Distributing connector agents
You can improve the performance of the business integration
system by distributing the connector agents. The reasons connector
agent distribution improves performance include the following:
- Each InterChange Server Express and connector agent process
runs in its own Java Virtual Machine (JVM). A computer can only
have so many JVM instances running on it before performance begins
to degrade. The threshold is dependent upon the computer specifications,
but distributing a connector agent decreases the load on the machine
hosting InterChange Server Express by one JVM.
- The performance of an individual connector generally improves
the closer it is to the application with which it communicates,
with respect to the network topology. Ideally the connector agent
should be installed on the same computer that hosts the application
server itself, though this might not be possible depending on the
environment. If the application host computer and the InterChange
Server Express host computer are on different subnets, however,
the connector agent will typically still perform better if installed
on another computer in the same subnet as the one in which the application
host computer exists.
For instructions about setting up distributed connector agents,
see the Setting up a distributed adapter environment.
