Outbound transport options

There are number of general considerations that apply to configuring messaging engines that send messages. These include how they establish connections with other messaging engines or with WebSphere® MQ queue manager which collects and then delivers messages that are received.

The transport channel service manages the configuration of network transports for service integration. However, because manipulation of outbound transport options is an advanced administrative operation, you can carry out some configuration through the wsadmin tool.

For your convenience, a number of outbound transport chains are preconfigured when an application server is created from the default server template, or when a client container is started.

Outbound transport chains are used for either:

When establishing a network connection, the type of channels and their order in the outbound transport chain used must match those in the inbound transport chain for the server to which connection is made. For example, an outbound HTTP tunneling chain is suitable only for establishing connections with an inbound HTTP tunneling chain.

The following chains are for use during the bootstrap process:
BootstrapBasicMessaging
Used to establish bootstrap connections to inbound chains configured for TCP-only connections to an application server, such as the InboundBasicMessaging chain.
BootstrapSecureMessaging
Used to establish secure connections using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) based encryption. The SSL configuration used is taken from the default SSL repertoire when used in an application server environment or from a configuration file when used by the client container. See Secure transport considerations for more information. This chain can be used for establishing bootstrap connections to inbound chains that are configured to use SSL, for example, the InboundSecureMessaging chain. Success in establishing such a connection depends on a compatible set of SSL credentials being associated with both this bootstrap outbound chain and also with the inbound chain to which the connection is being made.
BootstrapTunneledMessaging
Used to connect when tunneling through HTTP.
BootstrapTunneledSecureMessaging
Used to establish bootstrapping connections that are tunneled through secure HTTP (HTTPS). Like the BootstrapSecureMessaging outbound chain, this chain also derives its SSL configuration from the default SSL repertoire when used in an application server or from a configuration file when used in the client container. See Secure transport considerations.

The outbound chains that an application server uses for bootstrap operations are defined when the server is defined. They can be altered, or new bootstrap chains can be defined, using the wsadmin tool. See Defining outbound chains for bootstrapping and Defining outbound chains for WebSphere MQ interoperation.

You cannot configure bootstrap outbound chains used by a client container. However you can configure some attributes of outbound chains that use SSL encryption protocols. For more information, see Secure transport considerations.

You need the names of outbound bootstrap chains when configuring:
The following chains can be used when establishing a network connection to a WebSphere MQ queue manager receiver channel:
OutboundBasicMQLink
Used to establish connections with WebSphere MQ queue manager receiver channels.
OutboundSecureMQLink
Used to establish connections with WebSphere MQ queue manager receiver channels that have been secured using SSL. The SSL configuration used is taken from the default SSL repertoire for the application server being used to contact the queue manager.

The names of outbound chains used for WebSphere MQ interoperation are needed when configuring the transport chain of a WebSphere MQ link.

By default all of these transport chains are configured to use the SIBFAPThreadPool thread pool to send data. No reason has been identified for it being necessary to change the minimum or maximum size of this thread pool.




Related concepts
Messaging engine communication
Related tasks
Defining outbound chains for bootstrapping
Defining outbound chains for WebSphere MQ interoperation
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