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| sebastia |
 Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:28 am Post subject: what is the use of 2 agents on same machine ? |
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Good morning.
I have a question about MQFTE.
I read "Each agent uses its own uniquely identified queues that are separate from those used by other agents. Thus, an agent queue manager can validly host more than one agent."
As I understand it, a FTE Agent is the "entry point" for an Application to access the MQ network, so it cand send files to remore queue managers.
So, why should someone place 2 agents on same (input) machine ?
Well, if 1 agent is "local", this is "Server" and "N-1" are "remote" or "client",, then I understand the phrase ...
Can someone clarify my concepts, if wrong ? Sebastian. |
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| nickla23 |
| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:30 am Post subject: |
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There are a couple different reasons you could use more than 1 agent per queue manager.
The main one being that there are different types of agents, Transfer Agent(standard), Protocol Agent(FTP), Web Agent(Web Gateway), and Connect:Direct Agent. Also within each agent you can specify in the agent.properties, the particulars as far as how MQ will handle the transfer, chunk/block/window size as well as max transfers. One other reason, in cases where there are large number of transfers coming into a system, you can divide them up based off your needs so that there is less of an impact if you have a problem with one of the transfers or agents. |
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| sebastia |
| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| nickla23 wrote: |
There are a couple different reasons you could use more than 1 agent per queue manager.
The main one being that there are different types of agents, Transfer Agent(standard), Protocol Agent(FTP), Web Agent(Web Gateway), and Connect:Direct Agent. Also within each agent you can specify in the agent.properties, the particulars as far as how MQ will handle the transfer, chunk/block/window size as well as max transfers. One other reason, in cases where there are large number of transfers coming into a system, you can divide them up based off your needs so that there is less of an impact if you have a problem with one of the transfers or agents. |
THANKS A LOT, mr NICKLA - very good explanation ! |
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| Cogito-Ergo-Sum |
| Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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I think, this is the Redbook being discussed in the original question. I have a follow-up question.
About the client agents, on page 32, this is mentioned (emphasis mine) :
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| WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition Client agents, which must run on a machine that does not have WebSphere MQ installed, can only associate with this queue manager in client mode. |
So, by design, the machine where Client agents are expected to run shouldn't have WMQ clients or the queue manager. Is this right ?
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| Michael Dag |
| Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 11:23 am Post subject: |
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another reason for multiple agents per machine can be access control...
suppose you have app A sending files to app B and
app C sending files to app D
suppose app A and C are on one machine and you use 1 agent, that means the id the agent is running under needs read/write (to delete the files you need write rights) access to both directories where app A and C are writing their files... you may not want that... as the agent can now technically send files from app A to app D ... and from app C to app B ...
having seperate agents with seperate access rights prevents that from happening.
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Cogito-Ergo-Sum wrote: |
I think, this is the Redbook being discussed in the original question. I have a follow-up question.
About the client agents, on page 32, this is mentioned (emphasis mine) :
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| WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition Client agents, which must run on a machine that does not have WebSphere MQ installed, can only associate with this queue manager in client mode. |
So, by design, the machine where Client agents are expected to run shouldn't have WMQ clients or the queue manager. Is this right ? |
I believe you're reading into it more than there is. My interpretation is that there will be no MQ Server installation. Nothing said about MQ Client... 
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| Cogito-Ergo-Sum |
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Thanks !
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Sometimes, I read like a lawyer. 
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