Conventional Broker Cluster Properties

The following properties, in addition to those listed in Cluster Connection Service Properties, are used to configure conventional clusters:

• imq.cluster.brokerlist specifies a list of broker addresses defining the membership of the cluster; all brokers in the cluster must have the same value for this property.

  For example, to create a conventional cluster consisting of brokers at port 9876 on host1, port 5000 on host2, and the default port (7676) on ctrlhost, use the following value:

  imq.cluster.brokerlist=host1:9876,host2:5000,ctrlhost

• imq.cluster.masterbroker specifies which broker in a conventional cluster is the master broker that maintains the configuration change record that tracks the addition and deletion of destinations and durable subscribers. For example:

  imq.cluster.masterbroker=host2:5000

  While specifying a master broker using the imq.cluster.masterbroker is not mandatory for a conventional cluster to function, it guarantees that persistent information propagated across brokers (destinations and durable subscriptions) is always synchronized. See Conventional Clusters in Sun GlassFish Message Queue 4.4 Technical Overview.