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Interconnected bus configurations

There are specific issues that we must take into account when we are planning an interconnected service integration bus configuration.

When we are naming service integration buses, bear in mind that bus names must be unique.

Decide what your buses are to be linked to. We can link the buses either through a direct service integration bus link, or through an indirect link. An indirect link can include one or more intermediate buses. See Direct and indirect routing between service integration buses.

Decide which messaging engines to use as gateways. Remember that a gateway messaging engine connects to the gateway messaging engine of another bus through a service integration link.

Carefully plan how you distribute destinations on different messaging engines in each bus. We might want to define alias destinations that make a destination available by a different name, either on the same bus, or on a foreign bus. You could define foreign destinations which allow applications on one bus to directly access a destination on a foreign bus. If we do not define foreign destinations, we can configure destination defaults to be used. We can combine alias and foreign destinations for further flexibility in your topology.

Use destination defaults in the following scenarios:

Use foreign destinations in the following scenarios:

Use an alias destination in the following scenarios:

There is a security consideration that arises from having a mixed-version bus. In a mixed-version bus, define an inter-engine authentication alias for aWebSphere Application Server v6 or v6.1 bus member, to allow it to establish trust with the other bus members of later versions. In the case of a single version bus, we do not need to define an inter-engine authentication alias to ensure the secure operation of the bus.

If buses in different organizations are connected, we must decide whether to secure connections to a foreign bus with a user ID and password, and optionally with SSL authentication.


Related:

  • Foreign destinations and alias destinations
  • Bus configurations
  • Interconnected buses
  • Foreign buses
  • Service integration security
  • Direct and indirect routing between service integration buses
  • Bus topology that links to IBM MQ networks
  • Create an alias destination on a bus
  • Configure alias destination properties
  • Create a foreign destination on a bus
  • Configure destination defaults for a foreign bus connection
  • Secure links between messaging engines
  • Configure topic space mappings between service integration buses
  • Configure service integration bus links
  • Connect buses