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High availability is always an important topic, which is often thought at end of the project or even sometimes at the time of downtime/disaster.

While it is challenging to set up high availability environment, as you have to spare time and money to complete; here is my attempt to provide you with a prototype that you can set-up in matter of few hours using VMWare.

This article helps to quickly, complete proof of technology or prototype for high availability environment with active and standby MQ/IIB instances.

It covers whole nine yards of this topic i.e. from installation of VMware to testing of fail-over from client.

Follow Installation of CentOS procedure twice; first to create VMWare instance for Active and then for Standby server.
We will use these two instances of CentOS for active and standby installation/configuration on MQ and IIB.

1.1 Download CentOS .iso installable file.

http://www.centos.org/download/
Note: I used CentOS6.4, check compatibility when you download CentOS.

1.2 Download VMWare Player from VMWare.

www.vmware.com
Downloads-> (Under Free products, click Player)

1.3 Player->File->New Virtual Machine>

Open VMPlayer and create new ‘Virtual Machine’.

1.4 Choose install image.>

1.5 Choose Guest Operating System

1.6 Name virtual image

( For primary: CentOS 64-bit primary)
( For Secondary: CentOS 64-bit Secondary)

1.7 Specify disk capacity

1.8 Create Virtual Machine.

1.9 Start Virtual Machine which is created.

Use default user to log in.

1.10 Open terminal

Follow these instructions to install MQ and IIB on both Active and Standby server.

Before you proceed with the procedure, download MQ and IIB installable from IBM website.
I used version MQ 7.5.0.1 and IIB 9.0.0.2.

2.1 Installation of MQ:

1. Login as root
2. Uncompress and untar “WS_MQ_LIN_ON_X86-64_V7.5.0.1_EIM.tar
“tar –xvf WS_MQ_LIN_ON_X86-64_V7.5.0.1_EIM.tar”
3. “./mqlicense.sh -text_only” Enter ‘1’ to accept.
4. Install in default directory
“rpm -ivh MQSeriesRuntime-*.rpm MQSeriesServer-*.rpm”
“rpm -ivh MQSeriesJava-7.5.0-1.x86_64.rpm MQSeriesJRE-7.5.0-1.x86_64.rpm”

2.2 Install IIBv9

1. Login as root
Open root terminal, ref 1.10 Open Terminal.
2. Uncompress and untar “IBM_INTEGRATION_BUS_V9.0.0.2_LINU.tar”
“tar –xvf IBM_INTEGRATION_BUS_V9.0.0.2_LINU.tar”
3. cd integrationbus/sample-scripts
4. edit response.properties file and accept License.
LICENSE_ACCEPTED=TRUE
5. Create tmp directory and export IATEMPDIR variable
[root@localhost sample-scripts]# vi response.properties
[root@localhost sample-scripts]# mkdir -p /opt/ESB/installables/tmp
[root@localhost sample-scripts]# export IATEMPDIR=/opt/ESB/installables/tmp
[root@localhost sample-scripts]#
6. Install IIB
[root@localhost sample-scripts]# /opt/ESB/installables/IIBv9002/integrationbus_runtime1/setuplinuxx64.bin -i silent -f /opt/ESB/installables/IIBv9002/integrationbus_runtime1/sample-scripts/response.properties

Now that we have got two VMWare instances running CentOS.
We have MQ/IIB installed on these instances. We need Network File System installed on Primary and Standby server.

For demo purpose, we will configure NFS server on CentOS active server and NFS client on CentOS standby server. This information is provided for a set-up, which can be configured for your table-top experiment.
All these commands are to be run as root. You can add NFS and mount commands to be run at system startup.

For production and test environments, you should plan to use enterprise grade shared file system.

3.1 Server: Install NFS

[root@localhost ~]# yum -y install nfs-utils rpcbind
[root@localhost ~]#

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3.2 Server: Start NFS and update /etc/exports

[root@localhost ~]# chkconfig nfs on
[root@localhost ~]# chkconfig rpcbind on
[root@localhost ~]# chkconfig nfslock on
[root@localhost ~]# mkdir –p /Shared/Location/WMQ
(Note: This will be shared directory location that we will use to create multi-instance queue manager and broker)
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/exports
/Shared/Location/WMQ *(rw,sync,no_wdelay,fsid=0)
[root@localhost ~]# service rpcbind start
[root@localhost ~]# service nfs start
[root@localhost ~]# service nfslock start
[root@localhost ~]#

3.3 Client: Install NFS and create mount point

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[root@localhost ~]#yum -y install nfs-utils rpcbind
[root@localhost ~]#mkdir -p /Shared/Location/WMQ
[root@localhost ~]#chkconfig nfs on
[root@localhost ~]#chkconfig rpcbind on
[root@localhost ~]#chkconfig nfslock on

3.4 Server: Change ownership and permission for mount point

Create user mqbrkrs, and add this user to group mqbrkrs
[root@localhost ~]#chown mqm:mqm /Shared/Location/WMQ
[root@localhost ~]#chown mqbrkrs:mqbrkrs /Shared/Location/IIB
[root@localhost ~]#chmod 777 /Shared/Location/IIB
[root@localhost ~]#chmod 777 /Shared/Location/WMQ
Note: Check the permissions

3.5 Client: Start NFS and mount the dir

[root@localhost ~]#service rpcbind start
[root@localhost ~]#service nfs start
[root@localhost ~]#service nfslock start
[root@localhost ~]#chkconfig rpcbind on
[root@localhost ~]#mount 192.168.33.137:/Shared/Location/WMQ /Shared/Location/WMQ
Note: 192.168.33.137 is IP address of Server
[root@localhost ~]#ls -lrt /Shared/Location/WMQ/
[root@localhost ~]#cd /Shared/Location/WMQ

3.6 Client: umount the dir, if needed

root@localhost ~]# umount /Shared/Location/WMQ
[root@localhost ~]# df

At this time, we have two instances of CentOS Virtual Machines running; One will act as Active instance and other as Standby instance for our table-top experiment.

We have MQ/IIB installed. We also have shared file-system created and related processes running on Active and Standby Virtual Machines.

Now follow below steps to create Multi-instance MQ queue manager.
Reference:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSMKHH_9.0.0/com.ibm.etools.mft.doc/fa70160_.htm

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4.2 Check uid and gid in /etc/passwd file for user mqm and mqbrkrs

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