Hello Team,

Could you please share configuring a multi-instance MFT Agent setup document. 

Hi ,
You can use this link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.0?topic=use-configuring-multi-instance-queue-manager-work-mft  .

Thanks ,
Manisha Kohli

Hello Team,

Could you please share configuring a multi-instance MFT Agent setup document. 

Thanks for link Manisha,

I was done this setup in two servers (active & passive) but in both server agents status is active active. Is the any way to agent will be active and standby. 

Hi ,
You can use this link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.0?topic=use-configuring-multi-instance-queue-manager-work-mft  .

Thanks ,
Manisha Kohli

Hello Team,

Could you please share configuring a multi-instance MFT Agent setup document. 

Thanks for link Manisha,

I was done this setup in two servers (active & passive) but in both server agents status is active active. Is the any way to agent will be active and standby. 

Hi ,
You can use this link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.0?topic=use-configuring-multi-instance-queue-manager-work-mft  .

Thanks ,
Manisha Kohli

Hello Team,

Could you please share configuring a multi-instance MFT Agent setup document. 

Hello Team,

Could you please share configuring a multi-instance MFT Agent setup document. 

Title: Highly available agents in Managed File Transfer

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=managers-highly-available-agents-in-managed-file-transfer

No option exists on the fteCreateAgent command to difine an agent as highly available.

Title: fteCreateAgent (create an MFT agent)

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-ftecreateagent-create-mft-agent

Nor is there an option on the fteStartAgent, or fteStopAgent commands about a highly available agent.

However, there are agent properties related to highly available agents.

  Title: The MFT agent.properties file

    URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-mft-agentproperties-file

Section: High availability properties

    URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-mft-agentproperties-file#properties__highav_props

• highlyAvailable
• standbyPollInterval
• standbyStatusDiscardTime
• standbyStatusExpiry
• standbyStatusPublishInterval

  If the highlyAvailable property in the agent.properties file is present and has a value of true, when the agent is started, it will attempt to obtain exclusive access to agent queues on the agent queue manager.  If it is unable to do so, it will be in standby mode (i.e., awaiting for exclusive access to be available).  Until that occurs, it will not become the active agent instance.

  So, to create a highly available agent, you need to use the fteCreateAgent command to identify how each agent instance will connect to the agent queue manager.  Then, you need to edit the agent.properties file, and add this property:

highlyAvailable=true

  Once this has been done you can use the fteStartAgent to start the active agent.

  You then need to replicate this information (all of the MFT properties files) on the standby agent system.

  When you use the fteStartAgent, it will attempt to obtain exclusive access to the agent queues on the queue manager and realize that it needs to be in standby mode until it needs to become the active agent instance.

Hello Team,

Could you please share configuring a multi-instance MFT Agent setup document. 

Title: Highly available agents in Managed File Transfer

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=managers-highly-available-agents-in-managed-file-transfer

No option exists on the fteCreateAgent command to difine an agent as highly available.

Title: fteCreateAgent (create an MFT agent)

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-ftecreateagent-create-mft-agent

Nor is there an option on the fteStartAgent, or fteStopAgent commands about a highly available agent.

However, there are agent properties related to highly available agents.

  Title: The MFT agent.properties file

    URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-mft-agentproperties-file

Section: High availability properties

    URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-mft-agentproperties-file#properties__highav_props

• highlyAvailable
• standbyPollInterval
• standbyStatusDiscardTime
• standbyStatusExpiry
• standbyStatusPublishInterval

  If the highlyAvailable property in the agent.properties file is present and has a value of true, when the agent is started, it will attempt to obtain exclusive access to agent queues on the agent queue manager.  If it is unable to do so, it will be in standby mode (i.e., awaiting for exclusive access to be available).  Until that occurs, it will not become the active agent instance.

  So, to create a highly available agent, you need to use the fteCreateAgent command to identify how each agent instance will connect to the agent queue manager.  Then, you need to edit the agent.properties file, and add this property:

highlyAvailable=true

  Once this has been done you can use the fteStartAgent to start the active agent.

  You then need to replicate this information (all of the MFT properties files) on the standby agent system.

  When you use the fteStartAgent, it will attempt to obtain exclusive access to the agent queues on the queue manager and realize that it needs to be in standby mode until it needs to become the active agent instance.

Hello Team,

Could you please share configuring a multi-instance MFT Agent setup document. 

Hi Bob,

Q: Is the setup MFT agents in both active and standby server?

Title: Highly available agents in Managed File Transfer

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=managers-highly-available-agents-in-managed-file-transfer

No option exists on the fteCreateAgent command to difine an agent as highly available.

Title: fteCreateAgent (create an MFT agent)

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-ftecreateagent-create-mft-agent

Nor is there an option on the fteStartAgent, or fteStopAgent commands about a highly available agent.

However, there are agent properties related to highly available agents.

  Title: The MFT agent.properties file

    URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-mft-agentproperties-file

Section: High availability properties

    URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-mft-agentproperties-file#properties__highav_props

• highlyAvailable
• standbyPollInterval
• standbyStatusDiscardTime
• standbyStatusExpiry
• standbyStatusPublishInterval

  If the highlyAvailable property in the agent.properties file is present and has a value of true, when the agent is started, it will attempt to obtain exclusive access to agent queues on the agent queue manager.  If it is unable to do so, it will be in standby mode (i.e., awaiting for exclusive access to be available).  Until that occurs, it will not become the active agent instance.

  So, to create a highly available agent, you need to use the fteCreateAgent command to identify how each agent instance will connect to the agent queue manager.  Then, you need to edit the agent.properties file, and add this property:

highlyAvailable=true

  Once this has been done you can use the fteStartAgent to start the active agent.

  You then need to replicate this information (all of the MFT properties files) on the standby agent system.

  When you use the fteStartAgent, it will attempt to obtain exclusive access to the agent queues on the queue manager and realize that it needs to be in standby mode until it needs to become the active agent instance.

Hello Team,

Could you please share configuring a multi-instance MFT Agent setup document. 

Yagnakishore:

  Please explain what you mean.  If you are asking if one Agent is active and the other is in standby, then the answer is yes.  They use a queue on the agent Queue Manager to determine which is / should be active.  The agent that can't get exclusive access to the queue will be in standby mode until it obtains the exclusive access to the queue.  This should only occur when the "active" agent fails for some reason and relinquishes control to the queue.

  Hopefully this provides you with the information for which you were looking.

Bob

Hi Bob,

Q: Is the setup MFT agents in both active and standby server?

Title: Highly available agents in Managed File Transfer

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=managers-highly-available-agents-in-managed-file-transfer

No option exists on the fteCreateAgent command to difine an agent as highly available.

Title: fteCreateAgent (create an MFT agent)

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-ftecreateagent-create-mft-agent

Nor is there an option on the fteStartAgent, or fteStopAgent commands about a highly available agent.

However, there are agent properties related to highly available agents.

  Title: The MFT agent.properties file

    URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-mft-agentproperties-file

Section: High availability properties

    URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-mft-agentproperties-file#properties__highav_props

• highlyAvailable
• standbyPollInterval
• standbyStatusDiscardTime
• standbyStatusExpiry
• standbyStatusPublishInterval

  If the highlyAvailable property in the agent.properties file is present and has a value of true, when the agent is started, it will attempt to obtain exclusive access to agent queues on the agent queue manager.  If it is unable to do so, it will be in standby mode (i.e., awaiting for exclusive access to be available).  Until that occurs, it will not become the active agent instance.

  So, to create a highly available agent, you need to use the fteCreateAgent command to identify how each agent instance will connect to the agent queue manager.  Then, you need to edit the agent.properties file, and add this property:

highlyAvailable=true

  Once this has been done you can use the fteStartAgent to start the active agent.

  You then need to replicate this information (all of the MFT properties files) on the standby agent system.

  When you use the fteStartAgent, it will attempt to obtain exclusive access to the agent queues on the queue manager and realize that it needs to be in standby mode until it needs to become the active agent instance.

Hello Team,

Could you please share configuring a multi-instance MFT Agent setup document. 

Hi Bob,

Thanks for responding,

We are unable to make MFT switchover successfully. Followed below steps:

1. Created HA Queue manager in active server 
2. In active server we ran the fteSetupCoordination, fteSetupCommands and fteCreateAgent -x commands and added  
   highlyAvailable=true
   standbyPollInterval=5
   standbyStatusDiscardTime=600
   standbyStatusExpiry=30
   standbyStatusPublishInterval=300 in agent properties
3. Added HA Qmgr information in Standby server.
4. We have copied MFT property files from node1 (coordination.properties, command.properties, agent.properties) on node 2 we manually created log folder.
5. Started Queue manger and MFT agent on Node1 (Active Server). 
   Failover scenario:
   1. When we switch Qmgr (endmqm -s QMGR) to the node2, Qmgr running on Node2 but agent running on node1, status checking with ftePingAgent command.
   2. Can you please help us, is their any specific command to start or switch the HA  MFT agent

Thank you in advance,

Yagnakishore:

  Please explain what you mean.  If you are asking if one Agent is active and the other is in standby, then the answer is yes.  They use a queue on the agent Queue Manager to determine which is / should be active.  The agent that can't get exclusive access to the queue will be in standby mode until it obtains the exclusive access to the queue.  This should only occur when the "active" agent fails for some reason and relinquishes control to the queue.

  Hopefully this provides you with the information for which you were looking.

Bob

Hi Bob,

Q: Is the setup MFT agents in both active and standby server?

Title: Highly available agents in Managed File Transfer

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=managers-highly-available-agents-in-managed-file-transfer

No option exists on the fteCreateAgent command to difine an agent as highly available.

Title: fteCreateAgent (create an MFT agent)

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-ftecreateagent-create-mft-agent

Nor is there an option on the fteStartAgent, or fteStopAgent commands about a highly available agent.

However, there are agent properties related to highly available agents.

  Title: The MFT agent.properties file

    URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-mft-agentproperties-file

Section: High availability properties

    URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-mft-agentproperties-file#properties__highav_props

• highlyAvailable
• standbyPollInterval
• standbyStatusDiscardTime
• standbyStatusExpiry
• standbyStatusPublishInterval

  If the highlyAvailable property in the agent.properties file is present and has a value of true, when the agent is started, it will attempt to obtain exclusive access to agent queues on the agent queue manager.  If it is unable to do so, it will be in standby mode (i.e., awaiting for exclusive access to be available).  Until that occurs, it will not become the active agent instance.

  So, to create a highly available agent, you need to use the fteCreateAgent command to identify how each agent instance will connect to the agent queue manager.  Then, you need to edit the agent.properties file, and add this property:

highlyAvailable=true

  Once this has been done you can use the fteStartAgent to start the active agent.

  You then need to replicate this information (all of the MFT properties files) on the standby agent system.

  When you use the fteStartAgent, it will attempt to obtain exclusive access to the agent queues on the queue manager and realize that it needs to be in standby mode until it needs to become the active agent instance.

Hello Team,

Could you please share configuring a multi-instance MFT Agent setup document. 

Have you looked at:  Configuring a multi-instance queue manager to work with MFT

to see if setting the standby QM IP address info helps?

Hi Bob,

Thanks for responding,

We are unable to make MFT switchover successfully. Followed below steps:

1. Created HA Queue manager in active server 
2. In active server we ran the fteSetupCoordination, fteSetupCommands and fteCreateAgent -x commands and added  
   highlyAvailable=true
   standbyPollInterval=5
   standbyStatusDiscardTime=600
   standbyStatusExpiry=30
   standbyStatusPublishInterval=300 in agent properties
3. Added HA Qmgr information in Standby server.
4. We have copied MFT property files from node1 (coordination.properties, command.properties, agent.properties) on node 2 we manually created log folder.
5. Started Queue manger and MFT agent on Node1 (Active Server). 
   Failover scenario:
   1. When we switch Qmgr (endmqm -s QMGR) to the node2, Qmgr running on Node2 but agent running on node1, status checking with ftePingAgent command.
   2. Can you please help us, is their any specific command to start or switch the HA  MFT agent

Thank you in advance,

Yagnakishore:

  Please explain what you mean.  If you are asking if one Agent is active and the other is in standby, then the answer is yes.  They use a queue on the agent Queue Manager to determine which is / should be active.  The agent that can't get exclusive access to the queue will be in standby mode until it obtains the exclusive access to the queue.  This should only occur when the "active" agent fails for some reason and relinquishes control to the queue.

  Hopefully this provides you with the information for which you were looking.

Bob

Hi Bob,

Q: Is the setup MFT agents in both active and standby server?

Title: Highly available agents in Managed File Transfer

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=managers-highly-available-agents-in-managed-file-transfer

No option exists on the fteCreateAgent command to difine an agent as highly available.

Title: fteCreateAgent (create an MFT agent)

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-ftecreateagent-create-mft-agent

Nor is there an option on the fteStartAgent, or fteStopAgent commands about a highly available agent.

However, there are agent properties related to highly available agents.

  Title: The MFT agent.properties file

    URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-mft-agentproperties-file

Section: High availability properties

    URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-mft-agentproperties-file#properties__highav_props

• highlyAvailable
• standbyPollInterval
• standbyStatusDiscardTime
• standbyStatusExpiry
• standbyStatusPublishInterval

  If the highlyAvailable property in the agent.properties file is present and has a value of true, when the agent is started, it will attempt to obtain exclusive access to agent queues on the agent queue manager.  If it is unable to do so, it will be in standby mode (i.e., awaiting for exclusive access to be available).  Until that occurs, it will not become the active agent instance.

  So, to create a highly available agent, you need to use the fteCreateAgent command to identify how each agent instance will connect to the agent queue manager.  Then, you need to edit the agent.properties file, and add this property:

highlyAvailable=true

  Once this has been done you can use the fteStartAgent to start the active agent.

  You then need to replicate this information (all of the MFT properties files) on the standby agent system.

  When you use the fteStartAgent, it will attempt to obtain exclusive access to the agent queues on the queue manager and realize that it needs to be in standby mode until it needs to become the active agent instance.

Hello Team,

Could you please share configuring a multi-instance MFT Agent setup document. 

Hi Bob,

Thanks for responding,

We are unable to make MFT switchover successfully. Followed below steps:

1. Created HA Queue manager in active server 
2. In active server we ran the fteSetupCoordination, fteSetupCommands and fteCreateAgent -x commands and added  
   highlyAvailable=true
   standbyPollInterval=5
   standbyStatusDiscardTime=600
   standbyStatusExpiry=30
   standbyStatusPublishInterval=300 in agent properties
3. Added HA Qmgr information in Standby server.
4. We have copied MFT property files from node1 (coordination.properties, command.properties, agent.properties) on node 2 we manually created log folder.
5. Started Queue manger and MFT agent on Node1 (Active Server). 
   Failover scenario:
   1. When we switch Qmgr (endmqm -s QMGR) to the node2, Qmgr running on Node2 but agent running on node1, status checking with ftePingAgent command.
   2. Can you please help us, is their any specific command to start or switch the HA  MFT agent

Thank you in advance,

Yagnakishore:

  Please explain what you mean.  If you are asking if one Agent is active and the other is in standby, then the answer is yes.  They use a queue on the agent Queue Manager to determine which is / should be active.  The agent that can't get exclusive access to the queue will be in standby mode until it obtains the exclusive access to the queue.  This should only occur when the "active" agent fails for some reason and relinquishes control to the queue.

  Hopefully this provides you with the information for which you were looking.

Bob

Hi Bob,

Q: Is the setup MFT agents in both active and standby server?

Title: Highly available agents in Managed File Transfer

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=managers-highly-available-agents-in-managed-file-transfer

No option exists on the fteCreateAgent command to difine an agent as highly available.

Title: fteCreateAgent (create an MFT agent)

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-ftecreateagent-create-mft-agent

Nor is there an option on the fteStartAgent, or fteStopAgent commands about a highly available agent.

However, there are agent properties related to highly available agents.

  Title: The MFT agent.properties file

    URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-mft-agentproperties-file

Section: High availability properties

    URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-mft-agentproperties-file#properties__highav_props

• highlyAvailable
• standbyPollInterval
• standbyStatusDiscardTime
• standbyStatusExpiry
• standbyStatusPublishInterval

  If the highlyAvailable property in the agent.properties file is present and has a value of true, when the agent is started, it will attempt to obtain exclusive access to agent queues on the agent queue manager.  If it is unable to do so, it will be in standby mode (i.e., awaiting for exclusive access to be available).  Until that occurs, it will not become the active agent instance.

  So, to create a highly available agent, you need to use the fteCreateAgent command to identify how each agent instance will connect to the agent queue manager.  Then, you need to edit the agent.properties file, and add this property:

highlyAvailable=true

  Once this has been done you can use the fteStartAgent to start the active agent.

  You then need to replicate this information (all of the MFT properties files) on the standby agent system.

  When you use the fteStartAgent, it will attempt to obtain exclusive access to the agent queues on the queue manager and realize that it needs to be in standby mode until it needs to become the active agent instance.

Hello Team,

Could you please share configuring a multi-instance MFT Agent setup document. 

Yagnakishore:

  This type of issue is better served by the IBM Software Support process.  Please create a new case for the IBM MQ Distributed team .

Title: IBM Customer Community Portal
  URL: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport

  Use the Open a case button and fill in the details.  Feel free to ask that it be assigned to Bob Gibson based upon our discussion up to this point.  Please also provide the fteRAS output from the agent system and the runmqras output from the agent queue manager system.

Title: fteRAS (collect MFT troubleshooting information)

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-fteras-collect-mft-troubleshooting-information

Note: If you normally specify the -p command line option when starting the agent, please use this same -p option when using the fteRAS command.

Title: runmqras (collect IBM MQ troubleshooting information)

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-runmqras-collect-mq-troubleshooting-information

  For example:

runmqras -qmlist QMname -section defs

  Note: Please specify the actual queue manager name where QMname is shown on the sample command above.

------------------------------
Bob Gibson - IBM Software Support - MQ Distributed

Original Message:
Sent: Fri March 03, 2023 06:19 AM
From: yagnakishore arikati
Subject: Multi-instance MFT Agent setup.

Hi Bob,

Thanks for responding,

We are unable to make MFT switchover successfully. Followed below steps:

1. Created HA Queue manager in active server 
2. In active server we ran the fteSetupCoordination, fteSetupCommands and fteCreateAgent -x commands and added  
   highlyAvailable=true
   standbyPollInterval=5
   standbyStatusDiscardTime=600
   standbyStatusExpiry=30
   standbyStatusPublishInterval=300 in agent properties
3. Added HA Qmgr information in Standby server.
4. We have copied MFT property files from node1 (coordination.properties, command.properties, agent.properties) on node 2 we manually created log folder.
5. Started Queue manger and MFT agent on Node1 (Active Server). 
   Failover scenario:
   1. When we switch Qmgr (endmqm -s QMGR) to the node2, Qmgr running on Node2 but agent running on node1, status checking with ftePingAgent command.
   2. Can you please help us, is their any specific command to start or switch the HA  MFT agent

Thank you in advance,

Yagnakishore:

  Please explain what you mean.  If you are asking if one Agent is active and the other is in standby, then the answer is yes.  They use a queue on the agent Queue Manager to determine which is / should be active.  The agent that can't get exclusive access to the queue will be in standby mode until it obtains the exclusive access to the queue.  This should only occur when the "active" agent fails for some reason and relinquishes control to the queue.

  Hopefully this provides you with the information for which you were looking.

Bob

Hi Bob,

Q: Is the setup MFT agents in both active and standby server?

Title: Highly available agents in Managed File Transfer

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=managers-highly-available-agents-in-managed-file-transfer

No option exists on the fteCreateAgent command to difine an agent as highly available.

Title: fteCreateAgent (create an MFT agent)

  URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-ftecreateagent-create-mft-agent

Nor is there an option on the fteStartAgent, or fteStopAgent commands about a highly available agent.

However, there are agent properties related to highly available agents.

  Title: The MFT agent.properties file

    URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-mft-agentproperties-file

Section: High availability properties

    URL: https://www.IBM.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3?topic=reference-mft-agentproperties-file#properties__highav_props

• highlyAvailable
• standbyPollInterval
• standbyStatusDiscardTime
• standbyStatusExpiry
• standbyStatusPublishInterval

  If the highlyAvailable property in the agent.properties file is present and has a value of true, when the agent is started, it will attempt to obtain exclusive access to agent queues on the agent queue manager.  If it is unable to do so, it will be in standby mode (i.e., awaiting for exclusive access to be available).  Until that occurs, it will not become the active agent instance.

  So, to create a highly available agent, you need to use the fteCreateAgent command to identify how each agent instance will connect to the agent queue manager.  Then, you need to edit the agent.properties file, and add this property:

highlyAvailable=true

  Once this has been done you can use the fteStartAgent to start the active agent.

  You then need to replicate this information (all of the MFT properties files) on the standby agent system.

  When you use the fteStartAgent, it will attempt to obtain exclusive access to the agent queues on the queue manager and realize that it needs to be in standby mode until it needs to become the active agent instance.

Hello Team,

Could you please share configuring a multi-instance MFT Agent setup document.