Set up administration of WebSphere Business Integration Adapters

You must perform several administrative functions before you can manage a WebSphere Business Integration Adapter.

• You must be familiar with the procedures outlined in Installing WebSphere Business Integration Adapters products.

• You must have installed the application EAR file to create the artifacts required for the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter before you perform this task.

In order to have administrative control over a WebSphere Business Integration Adapter, perform the administrative functions in the Procedure section.

Procedure

1. Create a Queue Connection Factory.

   From the top level of the administrative console, follow these steps:

   1. Expand Resources.
   2. Expand JMS.

   3. Select Queue connection factories.

   4. Select the scope level that matches the scope level of the Administration Input/Output Queues.

   5. Click New to create a new JMS queue connection factory.

   6. Choose the JMS resource provider. Select Default messaging provider, and click OK.

   7. Accept all the default values with the following exceptions:
      • Name: QueueCF
      • JNDI Name: jms/QueueCF
      • BusName: Your bus name

   8. Complete the creation of your new JMS queue connection factory by clicking OK.

      A message window appears at the top of the JMS queue connection factory panel.

   9. Apply the changes that you have made at the local configuration level to the master configuration by clicking Save in the message window.

2. Create a WebSphere Business Integration Adapter resource.

   From the top level of the administrative console, follow these steps:

   1. Expand Resources.
   2. Open the WebSphere Business Integration Adapters page.

      Select WebSphere Business Integration Adapters.

   3. Create a new WebSphere Business Integration Adapter by clicking New.

   4. Accept all the default values with the following exceptions:
      • Name: EISConnector
      • Queue connection factory JNDI name: jms/QueueCF

      • Administration input queue JNDI name: connectorName/AdminInQueue

      • Administration output queue JNDI name: connectorName/AdminOutQueue

   5. Complete the creation of the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter by clicking OK.

      A message window appears at the top of the WebSphere Business Integration Adapters panel.

   6. Apply the changes that you have made at the local configuration level to the master configuration by clicking Save in the message window.
3. Enable the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter Service.

   From the top level of the administrative console, follow these steps:

   1. Expand Servers.
   2. Expand Server types.

   3. Select WebSphere application servers.

   4. From the list of servers, select a server where the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter Service is to be enabled.

      Click the name of the server that hosts the resources of interest.

   5. From the Business Integration list on the Configuration tab, select WebSphere Business Integration Adapter Service.

   6. Ensure that the Enable service at server startup check box is selected.

   7. Click OK.

      A message window appears at the top of the WebSphere Business Integration Adapters page.

   8. Repeat steps 3.d to 3.g for each server on which the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter Service is to be enabled.

   9. Apply the changes that you have made at the local configuration level to the master configuration by clicking Save in the message window.

   When you enable or disable a WebSphere Business Integration Adapter service, you must restart the server in order for the changes to take effect.