Set up the client workstation

 

Before you complete this task have completed, Set up the server workstation.

When a WebSphere MQ application is run on the WebSphere MQ client, the following information is required:

You provide this information by defining a client-connection channel with the name used for the server-connection channel defined on the server. This example uses the MQSERVER environment variable to define the client-connection channel.

  1. Before starting, use the ping command to check that your TCP/IP software is correctly configured, and that your WebSphere MQ client and server TCP/IP sessions have been initialized. From the client, enter: 
      ping server-hostname
or
  ping n.n.n.n
    where

    server-hostname

    Is the host name of the server

    n.n.n.n

    Is the network address of the server

  2. Press Ctrl-C to stop the ping command.

  3. To create a client-connection channel, set the MQSERVER environment variable as follows: 
      export MQSERVER='CHANNEL1/TCP/server-hostname(port)'
    where

    CHANNEL1

    Is the name of the server-connection channel already defined on the server

    TCP

    Is the communications protocol.

    server-address

    Is the TCP/IP host name of the server.

    port

    Is optional and is the port number that the server is listening on, you specified this in step 6 of Set up the server workstation. If you do not give a port number, WebSphere MQ uses:

    • The one specified in the qm.ini file.

    • If no value is specified in the qm.ini file, WebSphere MQ uses the port number identified in the TCP/IP services file for the service name WebSphere MQ. If this entry in the services file does not exist, a default value of 1414 is used.

    The client-connection channel and server listener program must use the same port number.

To continue with the verification process, see Testing communication between workstations.

 

Parent topic:

Verifying the client installation


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