A transport chain consists of one or more types of channels,
each of which supports a different type of I/O protocol, such as TCP
or HTTP. Network ports can be shared among all of the channels within
a chain. The channel framework function automatically distributes
a request arriving on that port to the correct I/O protocol channel
for processing.
Before you begin
Ensure that a port is available for the new transport chain.
If you need to set up a shared port, you must:
- Use wsadmin commands to create your transport chain.
- Make sure that all channels sharing that port have the same discrimination
weight assigned to them.
About this task
You need to configure transport
chains to provide networking services to such functions as the service
integration bus component of IBM service integration technologies,
WebSphere Secure Caching Proxy, and the high availability manager
core group bridge service.
You can either use the administrative console or wsadmin
commands to create a transport chain. If you use the administrative
console, complete the following steps:
Procedure
- In the administrative console, click Servers > Application
servers > server_name, and then select one of the following
options, depending on the type of chain you are creating:
- Under Web container settings, click Web container transport
chains.
- Under Server messaging, click either Messaging engine
inbound transports or WebSphere MQ link inbound transports.
- Click New. The Create New Transport Chain
wizard initializes. During the transport chain creation process, you
are asked to:
When you click Finish, the new transport chain is added
to the list of defined transport chains on the Transport chain panel.
- Click the name of a transport chain to view the configuration
settings that are in effect for the transport channels contained in
that chain. To change any of these settings:
- Click the name of the channel whose settings you need
to change.
- Change the configuration settings. Some
of the settings, such as the port number are determined by what is
specified for the transport chain when it is created and cannot be
changed.
- Click on Custom properties to set any custom
properties that are defined for your system.
- When you your configuration changes, click OK.
- Stop the application server and start it again.
You
must stop the application server and start it again before your changes
take effect.