Highly Available WebSphere Business Integration Solutions

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The scripts also reference scripts from WebSphere MQ SupportPac, MC63:

WebSphere MQ for AIX - Implementing with HACMP for starting, stopping, and

monitoring the queue manager.

5.5 System setup

This section details the hardware and software setup for the sample

implementation. Note that there is no redundant power supply, however, as a

high availability designer you should consider this option for meeting more

stringent service level agreements.

5.5.1 Hardware

򐂰 Primary and failover node: IBM pSeries 630, Model 7028 E64, 1xPowerPC

(1.2GHz), 16 GB RAM each

򐂰 Shared disk system providing the application volume groups: FastT200 disk

system with 10 disks, with five logical disk volumes at 32 GB each.

򐂰 Fast fibre connection between the nodes and the shared disk system

򐂰 Three NIC cards connecting to the public ethernet. On node 1 with one

resource group, they are configured as one service and two standby; on node

2 they are configured for two services and one stand by

򐂰 Serial network adapter RS232 providing the cluster heartbeat

5.5.2 Software

Below is a listing of the software required for implementing this high availability

scenario:

򐂰 AIX 5.2, Maintenance Level 2

򐂰 HACMP 5.1, current APAR applied

򐂰 RSCT 2.3.0

򐂰 InterChange Server 4.2.2.2, with a HotFix for the ORB that makes it

persistent, this fix will be available with InterChange Server version 4.2.2.3

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– JDBC Type 2 drivers for DB2 Version 8.1

򐂰 IBM JDK Version 1.3.1 SR5(AIX)

򐂰 WebSphere MQ Version 5.3, CSD05 patch for AIX

򐂰 WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker 5.0 CSD 3 for AIX

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The WebSphere InterChange Server 4.2.2.3 Fix Pack is available as of June 18, 2004.