Integration queue replication

Integration queues are used to exchange data messages between Sterling™ Order Management System Software and external systems.

The messages could be orders placed between supply chain partners, shipping notices to partner warehouses, and so forth. These messages should be persisted to either files or a database.

If you use file-based persistence, you should consider replicating the files to a remote site to prevent loss of messages from local site faults (for example, JMS server crashing, node crashing). You may also want to consider replicating these messages to a remote site to prevent loss of messages from a data center disaster.

As with transaction logs, you cannot rely on standard copy utilities since these files are continuously opened and updated. Instead, you may have to resort to disk-to-disk replication, such as EMC SRDF, to protect the messages in your integration queue.