Possible configurations of MQIPT

MQIPT can be used in conjunction with IBM MQ and IBM Integration Bus.

The following multi-part figure shows many of the possible configurations for MQIPT in a IBM MQ topology. It illustrates different ways in which MQIPT can send messages. It shows clients and servers on an intranet, inside a firewall, and on the Internet outside the firewall, passing messages to MQIPT, HTTP proxy, or SOCKS proxy, which forwards them.

The messages are received by an MQIPT proxy or an HTTP proxy in a DMZ before passing the message through the inbound firewall to a server.

Note that the HTTP proxy, SOCKS proxy, and MQIPT computers on the intranet side of the firewall represent the possibility of multiple computers chained together on the internet. For example, an MQIPT computer could communicate through one or more SOCKS or HTTP proxy computers, or further MQIPT computers, before reaching its target.