A proxy cluster consists of one or more proxies. You can configure and administer a proxy cluster via the Management Console. The procedure is similar to that for configuring and administering an individual proxy.
Many of the menu commands and activities are the same since, in most cases, the proxy cluster behaves in the same way as an individual proxy.
Configuration wizards are not supported in a proxy cluster.
Configuring a BeanConnect proxy cluster
Perform the steps below to configure a proxy cluster consisting of multiple proxies:
Configure an individual proxy which will act as the basis for the proxy cluster.
Choose the command Define Proxy Cluster in this proxy's context menu. This defines the proxy cluster and simultaneously enters the proxy in this cluster. This action automatically makes this proxy the master proxy in the new cluster.
Enter further proxies in the Management Console. You do not have to configure these since the configuration properties are overwritten when they are included in the cluster and synchronized with the master proxy.
Add the new proxies to the cluster by choosing Add to Proxy Cluster in the context menu.
Save the cluster configuration. This synchronizes the proxies' configuration data.
You can modify the configuration properties of a proxy cluster in the cluster network, e.g. modify or add EIS partners, inbound services or outbound services.
The Management Console also provides a manual synchronization function for the proxy cluster (Synchronize Proxy Cluster command in the proxy cluster's context menu). This function is needed, for example, if a proxy in a cluster could not be administered for a period (for example because the corresponding host was not running) and the configuration of the proxy cluster changed during this period. An explicit synchronization then harmonizes the configuration of this specific proxy in the cluster with the configuration of the proxy cluster as a whole.
For further information, see Configuring a BeanConnect proxy cluster .
Starting and stopping a BeanConnect proxy cluster
You start, stop and restart a proxy cluster in the same way as when starting, stopping and restarting an individual proxy. Choose the corresponding command in the proxy cluster's context menu.
Start Proxy Cluster to start
Stop Proxy Cluster to stop
Save/Restart - Restart Proxy Cluster to restart
Checking availability
You check the availability of a proxy cluster or its components in the same way as for an individual proxy by choosing the Check Availability command in the associated context menu.
In a proxy cluster, the command initiates a check of all the proxy containers and all the associated components, i.e. resource adapters, EIS partners, MC-CmdHandlers on remote hosts and the openUTM-LU62 Gateway and communication service in the case of connections to CICS partners.
At the level of the individual components, the command only checks these components. The openUTM-LU62 Gateway and the communication service are checked at the topmost level in the same way as for an individual proxy.