Log information for the Connect:Direct bridge
We can use a Connect:Direct® bridge agent to transfer files between MFT agents and Connect:Direct nodes. Log information about the Connect:Direct nodes and processes involved in these transfers is displayed in the IBM MQ Explorer plug-in and is stored in your log database.
The Connect:Direct bridge agent must be WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition Version 7.0.4 or later. The other agent involved in the transfer can be any version of Managed File Transfer. However, for information about Connect:Direct nodes and processes to be logged, all MFT agents involved in the transfer must be WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition Version 7.0.4 or later. For this information to be displayed in the IBM MQ Explorer plugin, the plugin must be WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition Version 7.0.4 or later. For this information to be stored in the log database, the database logger and database schema must be WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition Version 7.0.4 or later.
Log information about the Connect:Direct nodes and Connect:Direct processes involved in a file transfer is included in the log messages that are published to the SYSTEM.FTE topic on the coordination queue manager. For more information, see File transfer log message formats.
The following information is included in the published message:- Connect:Direct bridge node name
- Primary node (PNODE) name
- Secondary node (SNODE) name
- Process name
- Process ID number
The value of the Connect:Direct bridge node name is the name that the bridge node is known to the MFT Connect:Direct bridge agent by. The primary and secondary node names are the names that are used to refer to the nodes in the network map of the Connect:Direct bridge node.