Configuring link aggregation interfaces by using the IBM MQ Appliance web UI

You can configure a link aggregate interface by using the IBM® MQ Appliance web UI.

About this task

You use the Network section of the IBM MQ Appliance web UI to configure a link aggregate interface on your IBM MQ Appliance. The IBM MQ Appliance web UI itself contains detailed help on the fields that you need to configure. Here we describe the major steps that you need to complete.

Note: You must configure the Ethernet interfaces that you want to aggregate, and enable them for link aggregation, before you create the link aggregation interface.

Procedure

  1. Start the IBM MQ Appliance web UI, and click the network icon shows the network icon.
  2. Select Interface > Link Aggregation Interface.
  3. Click Add to define a new configuration.
  4. Specify a name for the link aggregation interface.
  5. Define the basic configuration for that interface. Here you specify whether the interface is active or not, and whether the interface uses static addressing, or an autoconfiguration scheme. If you choose either of the autoconfiguration schemes, the appliance ignores the remaining configuration data about the physical interface.
  6. Specify the aggregation mode for the interface.
  7. Specify the Ethernet interfaces to be included in the aggregation.
  8. Define IP addressing. Here you define the primary IP address and netmask for the configuration. You can optionally specify one or more secondary addresses.
  9. Define IP routing. Here you define default gateways for IPv4 and IPv6 IP addresses. You can optionally set up a routing table that defines static routes.
  10. Optionally define advanced options that modify the way that the link aggregation interface works within the network.
  11. Click Apply to save the changes to the running configuration.