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.
About this task
To create a bus with a bus member use the administrative
console to complete the following steps:
Procedure
- 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.
Results
A new bus has been created.
What to do next
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.