Configuring a multi-instance queue manager

You can improve the high availability of AS4 Microservice by configuring a multi-instance queue manager.

Before you begin

Create the instances of the queue manager with the administrative tools of WebSphere MQ. See the documentation for the version of WebSphere® MQ that is specified in the System Requirements.

About this task

You can also use this task to add instances of a queue manager to a multi-instance queue manager that you configured when you first installed AS4 Microservice.

Procedure

  1. Open the install_dir\Members\resources directory.
  2. Open the SystemConfigurationMFLoader.properties file.
  3. Add the instances of the queue manager to the messagefabric.jms.webspheremq.WMQ_CONNECTION_NAME_LIST property. Instance entries must be separated by commas.
  4. Save and close the SystemConfigurationMFLoader.properties file.
  5. Open the install_dir\Members\bin directory on a command prompt.
  6. Enter the following command to load the updated SystemConfigurationMFLoader.properties file into the data grid: 
    execute config load fabric
  7. Enter the following command to load the updated instance information from the data grid to all of the members of the installation: 
    execute member config all fabric