Transport chains collection

To view or manage transport chains. Transport chains enable communication through transport channels, or protocol stacks, which are usually socket based.

A transport chain consists of one or more types of channels, each of which supports a different type of I/O protocol, such as TCP or HTTP. Network ports can be shared among all of the channels within a chain. The Channel Framework function automatically distributes a request arriving on that port to the correct I/O protocol channel for processing.

The Transport chains page lists the transport chains defined for the selected appserver. Transport chains represent network protocol stacks operating within this appserver.

To view this admin console page ...

Servers > Server Types > WebSphere application servers > server_name > Ports. Click on View associated transports for the port whose transport chains you want to view.

Name

Unique identifier for the transport chain. The name must consist of alphanumeric or national language characters and can start with a number. The name must be unique within WAS configuration. Click on the name of a transport chain to change its settings.

Enabled

When set to true, indicates that the transport chain is activated at application server startup.

Host

Specifies the host IP address to bind for the transport chain. If the application server is on a local machine, the host name might be localhost.

Port

Port to bind for the transport chain. The port number can be any port that currently is not in use on the system, might be localhost or the wildcard character * (an asterisk). The port number must be unique for each appserver instance on a given machine

SSL Enabled

When enabled, users are notified that there is a channel that enables SSL in the listed transport chain. When SSL is enabled, all traffic going through this transport is encrypted and digitally secured.

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Related tasks

Set transport chains

 

Related

Transport chain settings
HTTP transport channel settings
TCP transport channel settings
DCS transport channel settings
HTTP tunnel transport channel settings
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) inbound channel settings
Web container inbound transport channel settings
SSL inbound channel
JFAP inbound channel settings
MQFAP inbound channel settings