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| NickSz |
 Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:06 am Post subject: LOCLADDR needs to contain three ip addresses |
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Hello all,
we have eight mq appliances version 8.0.7. We are using link aggregation and vlans. We must use only one network segment per queue manager. We are using HA and this works well.
Due to firewall requirements we need to respond always on specific network zone interfaces. So we are using static routes.
In some cases we need one interface for out-bound and one for in-bound communication.
To ease this we define the standard via the environment variable MQ_LCLADDR to the out-bound address.
In some cases, where the channels are going towards inside (in-bound), we explicitly set the attribute LOCLADDR on those channels.
This works so far fine.
But if we extend this configuration and add a disaster-recovery appliance or QM to it, we need to add a third interface per LOCLADDR or MQ_LCLADDR to be able to send out from that third machine.
The documentation is not clear here and expects only two ip addresses or names but we would need three. The string length is limited to 48 characters so three ip addresses would fit (47 characters).
LOCLADDR is described here:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKSJ_8.0.0/com.ibm.mq.ref.con.doc/q081910_.htm
Did anybody else have been using LOCLADDR for more than two addresses in a similar config?
I am not sure if this will work as expected!
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| zpat |
| Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:38 am Post subject: |
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| Specify [,[ip-addr][(low-port[,high-port])]] multiple times for each additional local address. |
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| The maximum length of LOCLADDR, including multiple addresses, is MQ_LOCAL_ADDRESS_LENGTH. |
Seems fairly clear to me.
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Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error. |
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| NickSz |
| Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:20 am Post subject: |
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Thanks zpat,
but a IBM representative said that the string bellow means two ip-addresses only:
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| LOCLADDR([ip-addr][(low-port[,high-port])][,[ip-addr][(low-port[,high-port])]]) |
And this is actually limited to 48:
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| The maximum length of LOCLADDR, including multiple addresses, is MQ_LOCAL_ADDRESS_LENGTH. |
Can i extend it to a bigger numeric value?
When i set it to a string it was cut off after 48 characters. |
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| exerk |
| Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:47 am Post subject: |
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| The maximum length of LOCLADDR, including multiple addresses, is MQ_LOCAL_ADDRESS_LENGTH. |
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Can i extend it to a bigger numeric value? |
No...
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| When i set it to a string it was cut off after 48 characters. |
...so why ask if you can extend it?
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| NickSz |
| Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:53 am Post subject: |
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May be i am not inteligent enough to understand it?
I thought this is a forum to place queastions to?  |
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| exerk |
| Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 9:17 am Post subject: |
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| NickSz wrote: |
| I thought this is a forum to place queastions to? |
It is, but you answered your own question!
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| fjb_saper |
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I think what exerk is expressing a little bit forcefully here is that IBM has not made any provision to extend that field in its length, or otherwise.... 
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| PeterPotkay |
| Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:43 pm Post subject: Re: LOCLADDR needs to contain three ip addresses |
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| NickSz wrote: |
The string length is limited to 48 characters so three ip addresses would fit (47 characters).
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What happens when you set it to the 3 IPs and only use up 47 characters?
On your test box, make the first IP listed a bogus one, then the 2 real ones for the 2nd and 3rd. Then test failover between the H.A. nodes, to see if the 2nd and 3rd IPs are used.
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| zpat |
| Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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| NickSz wrote: |
Thanks zpat,
but a IBM representative said that the string means two ip-addresses only |
My quote was from the knowledge center. However the easiest way to prove it is to try it.
When you say "IBM rep", are you referring to L2 or L3 support?
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| NickSz |
| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 1:10 am Post subject: |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 6:01 am Post subject: |
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That conveys nothing.
There are a number of architects; was this one an actual IBM Hursley employee, involved in the architecting of this product? If so, was he speaking on the record and did he say how he knew so much about the implementation of the architecture after it left his area and moved into development?
Or was it a contractor who's "an IBM guy"?
There have been good suggestions on this thread. Give them a try.
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| NickSz |
| Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2017 6:08 am Post subject: SOLVED |
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Hello all,
i could finally test the szenario and prove that all thre ip-addresses are visited when i put up a queue manager and listener on a DR qm on top of a HA pair.
Thanks to all
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