Showing posts with label Enterprise Message Service(EMS). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Enterprise Message Service(EMS). Show all posts

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Monitoring Messages in TIBCO EMS

  • You can monitor messages processed by a destination as they are sent, received, or acknowledged
  • The $sys.monitor topic for monitoring messages has the following format. $sys.monitor.(D).(E).(destinationName). Where D is the type of destination, E is the event you wish to monitor, and destinationName is the name of the destination whose messages you wish to monitor.

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Configuring TIBCO EMS: Load Balancing

Configure the Daemon: You can start with one of the existing tibemsd.conf files and you will need to modify the server, store, listen, ft_active, routing and routes elements.


Server is the name of the EMS Server, and it needs to be distinct from other members of the LB group. In this case, we have chosen EMS-SERVER1. Since we will be building everything on a single host with two LB members each in a FT pair, we need to create another FT pair. In this case, we are using ports 7122 and 7124 with server EMS-SERVER1, a new store, and a new routes element (more on routes later).

The configuration approach is the same for building a FT Pair, by swapping listen and ft_active ports. The difference is that this is a new instance of FT and needs a unique name and storage. Routes need to be different as one cannot route to oneself.


The parameters we will be using as follows:
server = EMS-SERVER1
store = datastorelb
listen = tcp://7122
ft_active = tcp://7124
routing = enabled
routes = routes2.conf

Configure the Load-Balanced Factories (incl. FT pairs): In a similar fashion, you can edit the factories.conf file or enter the new factories via the EMS Administration Tool. The difference is the syntax where a vertical bar, or pipe, is used to delimit the two fault-tolerant pairs.


[LBTopicConnectionFactory]
type = topic url = tcp://7222, tcp://7224 tcp://7122, tcp://7124
metric = connections
[LBQueueConnectionFactory]
type = queue url = tcp://7222, tcp://7224 tcp://7122, tcp://7124
metric = connections


These URLs combine FT and LB. With Load-Balancing, you have the element of metric which can be either connections or byte_rate. The client will retrieve the URL based on request of a particular Factory, and if it is a load-balanced URL, it will query each participant for the value of the metric and the client will make the connection appropriate to the metric.


Enable Routing: You MUST route messages between LB servers, and if using FT pairs, you need to specify a FT URL. As you cannot route to yourself, and keeping in mind that Queues can only have one hop, you must configure routes appropriately.
The routes.conf file for EMS-Server will point to EMS-SERVER1 and use the FT URL for that pair, as follows:

[EMS-SERVER1] url = tcp://7122, tcp://7124


zone_name = default_mhop_zone


zone_type = mhop


Since we pointed EMS-SERVER1 to routes2.conf, it will look like this:
[EMS-SERVER]


url = tcp://7222, tcp://7224


zone_name = default_mhop_zone


zone_type = mhop


See the EMS documentation for more information on Zones and Zone-types. For this example, we can take the default. These entries can be created through the EMS Adminstration Tool as well:

create route EMS-SERVER1 url=tcp://7122,tcp//7124


Topics/Queues with Routing

Set Global Attribute: The Global Attribute can be applied to both topics and queues and permits messages to flow between members participating in Load Balancing. You can modify existing topics and queues, or when you create new ones, the syntax is as follows:

tcp://localhost:7222) create topic foo.bar global

Topic 'foo.bar' has been created

tcp://localhost:7222) commit

Configuration has been saved

As Queues can only be “one hop” away, you need to designate a “home”. When you configure a queue on a non-home provider, you point to the home with the following syntax, where you specify the home provider for the queue:

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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Configuring TIBCO EMS: Fault-Tolerance

We will configure TIBCO Enterprise Message Service from building a set of fault-tolerant pairs to putting those pairs into a load-balanced environment. The solution can be built on a single machine and tested, as shown below. In a real deployment scenario, you would want to have each machine be distinct.

In the diagram above, you see four EMS Server instances with each Fault-Tolerant (FT) pair sharing the same EMS “Server Name”, and you see the client with a complex URL that is constructed such that you have FT pairs separated by a comma and those pairs in a Load-Balanced (LB) arrangement separated by a vertical bar (or pipe symbol).

To make this arrangement work on a single machine, the individual services are on distinct ports. The first FT pair has an active server on port 7222 with a backup server listening on port 7224, for example. The primary is the one that starts first.


Fault Tolerant Configuration
Configure the Daemon
To configure Fault-Tolerance, we will need to configure only two types of files:
tibemsd.conf – configure the daemon process
factories.conf
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build FT factories as needed

Since we have a FT pair, we will create two files for the daemon processes so that we can start them with different configurations on the same machine. Given different machines, each machine will only need one of each of the types of files, but for our example, some types of files are shared while others need to be replicated to provide unique features.

Below, you will see the first tibemsd.conf file, renamed tibemsd1.conf to provide a unique identity. Note the bold items for server, store, listen, and ft_active – these are the required entries for FT configuration; the addition of the routing item is included at this time since we will be using this FT pair in an LB environment.

The second configuration will be accomplished by making a copy of the first and renaming it, prior to making some minor modifications. In the example below, we have named the file tibemsd2.conf


Note how the ft_active port is the same as the listen port of the other configuration, and vice versa! This is the only change necessary. This is akin to a “roll-over” cable and permits each server to receive heartbeats from the other. The active server has an exclusive lock on the storage.


Configure a Fault-Tolerant Factory

Edit factories.conf and create two factories, one for queues and one for topics. The standard factories.conf come with these preconfigured as FTTopicConnectionFactory and FTQueueConnectionFactory. The syntax in the file looks like this:


[FTTopicConnectionFactory]

type = topic

url = tcp://localhost:7222,tcp://localhost:7224

[FTQueueConnectionFactory]

type = queue

url = tcp://localhost:7222,tcp://localhost:7224

An alternate method to editing this file is to start up one of these daemons and to access the EMS Administration Tool and enter the command:

create factory FTQ queue url=tcp://localhost:7222,tcp://localhost:7224

This will create a ConnectionFactory for queues that exposes a Fault-Tolerant URL, as shown by the two comma-separated host specific URLs. When a Client requests the FTQ factory object through JNDI, it will have this complex URL associated with these two servers.

Set track_message_ids Parameter
There will be Fault-Tolerant cases where a failure occurs before the Provider can acknowledge the receipt of the message, so to prevent duplicate messages, you set the track_message_ids parameter in the tibemsd.conf file:
track_message_ids = enabled

Starting a Fault-Tolerant Pair


Simply start two instances of the EMS daemon where each instance points to a specific configuration file (shown is from a Windows Batch file):
start tibemsd -config tibemsd1.conf

start tibemsd –config tibemsd2.conf

Monitoring a Fault-Tolerant Pair

The EMS Administration Tool needs to connect to a particular instance, so start the Tool and for the connect string enter:

connect tcp://localhost:7222

Start up another instance, and change the connect string to:
connect tcp://localhost:7224

In this manner you will be able to see a client fail-over by issuing the “show connections” command.

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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol

1. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a protocol that provides secure authentication and transmits encrypted data over the Internet or an internal network.

2. TIBCO Enterprise Message Service supports the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

3. SSL uses public and private keys to encrypt data over a network connection to secure communication between pairs of components:

  • between an EMS client and the tibemsd server

  • between the tibemsadmin tool and the tibemsd server

  • between two routed servers

  • between two fault-tolerant servers

4. Digital certificates are data structures that represent identities. EMS uses certificates to verify the identities of servers and clients. A digital certificate is issued either by a trusted third-party certificate authority, or by a security officer within your enterprise.



5. JMS Java clients can use either JSSE (from Sun JavaSoft) or the SSL implementation from Entrust.

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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Administered Objects: JMS Connection Factories

1. JMS clients access the destinations and connection factory objects through interfaces that are portable, so a client application can run with little or no change on more than one implementation of the JMS API.

2. Ordinarily, an administrator configures administered objects in a Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) API namespace, and JMS clients then look them up, using the JNDI API. J2EE applications always use the JNDI API.

Connection Factories:

1. A connection factory is the object a client uses to create a connection with a provider. A pair of connection factories come preconfigured with the J2EE SDK and are accessible as soon as you start the service.

2. Each connection factory is an instance of either the QueueConnectionFactory or the TopicConnectionFactory interface.

3. We can use the default connection factory objects, to create connections.

4. At the beginning of a JMS client program, perform a JNDI API lookup of the connection factory.

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Saturday, May 7, 2011

What is JMS API & when we can use JMS?

1. Messaging is a method of communication between software components or applications.

2. JMS API allows applications to create, send, receive, and read messages.

Messaging could be Synchronous, Asynchronous and Reliable types.



Synchronous: A client that waits for the server to respond to a message.
Asynchronous: A client does not have to request server in order to receive message.
Reliable: Can ensure message is delivered safely once and only once.


Circumstances When We can Use JMS :


1. The provider wants the components not to depend on information about other component's interfaces, so that components can be easily replaced.

2. The provider wants the application to run whether or not all component sare up and running simultaneously.

3. The application business model allows a component to send information to another and to continue to operate without receiving an immediate response.

To know about TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) which is fully compliant Java Message Service (JMS) Click here.

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TIBCO EMS interview questions

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Know about TIBCO EMS and best EMS interview questions here. It updates daily.

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Persistent Messages Sent to EMS Queues & Topics

Persistent Messages Sent to Queues

Persistent messages sent to a queue are always written to disk. Should the server fail before sending persistent messages to consumers, the server can be restarted and the persistent messages will be sent to the consumers when they reconnect to the server.

Persistent Messages Sent to Topics

Persistent messages published to a topic are written to disk ONLY IF that topic has at least one durable subscriber or one subscriber with a fault-tolerant connection to the EMS server.

Non-durable subscribers that re-connect after a server failure are considered newly created subscribers and are not entitled to receive any messages created prior to the time they are created.

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Sunday, April 17, 2011

What is the use of Message Selectors in Tibco EMS

1. A message selector is a string that lets a client program specify a set of messages, based on the values of jms message headers and properties.

2. A selector matches a message if, after substituting header and property values from the message into the selector string, the string evaluates to true.

3. Consumers can request that the server deliver only those messages that match a selector.

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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Setting Exclusive property to Tibco ems queue

1. What is the use of exclusive property?



When exclusive is set for the queue, the server sends all the messages on that queue to one consumer. No other consumer can receive messages from the queue.



Instead, these additional consumers act in a standby role; if the primary consumer fails, the server selects one of the standby consumers as the new primary and begins delivering messages to it.



2. Can we set this property to Topics?


No, This property available only for queues.


3. How to set exclusive property to ems queue?



Set the exclusive property using addprop or setprop in tibemsadmin tool.

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Sunday, March 27, 2011

TIBCO EMS: When would you use EXPLICIT_CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE ?

EXPLICIT_CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE is like CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE except it acknowledges only the individual message, rather than all messages received so far on the session.



When EXPLICIT_CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE would be used ?



When we receive the messages and put their information in a database and if the database insert operation is slow, you may want to use multiple application threads all doing simultaneous inserts.



As each thread finishes its insert, it can use this mode to acknowledge only the message that it is currently working on.



For EMS message delivery modes Click here.

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Sunday, March 20, 2011

TIBCO JMS Message Compression

What is message Compression...?

  • TIBCO Enterprise Message Service allows a client to compress the body of a message before sending the message to the server.
  • Compression option only compresses the BODY content. Headers and properties are NEVER compressed.
  • Compression is specific for individual messages. Not on a per-queue or per-topic basis.
  • EMS supports message compression/decompression across client types (Java, C and C#). For example, a Java producer may compress a message and a C consumer may decompress the message.
  • Message compression is supported in .NET clients when using the install package for Visual C++ 8 / .NET 2.0 or above.

What is the advantage of Message Compression...?

How to add compression property to message...?

  • set JMS_TIBCO_COMPRESS to TRUE

When messages are not stored, compression is not a good option. Why?

  • Because, Compression takes TIME…!

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Saturday, February 5, 2011

Difference between JMS Queue Receiver & Get JMS Queue Message activities

JMS Queue Receiver:

  1. It is a process starter activity. It continues to poll destination queue to start the execution of process definition.
  2. After BusinessEngine started, a new process instance will be created for every single message it received.
  3. It has only static selector option to configure. That means we can filter all the messages with one selector value only. If you wish to filter messages with different selector values you would need to create more process definitions with JMSQueue reciver.

Get JMS Queue Message:

  1. It is NOT a process Starter activity. We could place this activity between starter and end activity of process definition. This activity executes only when its triggered.
  2. It executes all the queue messages in a single process instance and retrives one message at a time even more messages on the queue.
  3. It has both dynamic and static selectors. With a dynamic selector, one would be able to change the selector value for every message in the queue.

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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Graphical user interface utility for EMS- GEMS 3.2 & Software

Gems is a graphical user interface utility for TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS). It can be used by JMS developers as a general purpose test debugging tool and by administrative support staff as a management and monitorig tool.


Gems provides the following main features:
  • Server Monitoring- Server state and main statistics are automtically updated, warning and error limits may be configured. Server generated events are also captured.
  • Server Management- Including, general server configuration, JMS destinations, JNDI factories, users/groups, permissions, bridges, routes etc.
  • JMS support- Messages may be sent/received, queues may be browsed and message contents inspected. Selectors and filters may be specified.
  • JMS Message Monitoring- Messages may be monitored (snooped) as they pass trough the server. Request and reply messages can be correlated to provide service response times.
  • JMS Message Management- Eg; purging messages, copy messages from a queue to another queue on a different server.
  • Charting- Server statistics may be charted in real time, data may be saved to CSV files for export to other tools such as Excel.
  • Logging- Server statistics may be logged automatically when warning or error limits are breached.
  • Security- SSL connectivity, view only mode.
To get GEMS software click Here.

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Friday, July 31, 2009

Using the configuration Files in EMS

The configuration files contain information about the various EMS objects like queues, topics, users, bridges etc. These files are located in TIBCO_HOME/ems/bin directory.

These files can be edited either directly using a textpad or using the command line based administration tool. The administration tool will eventually read/write to/from these configuration files.

Following are the key configuration files that are available in EMS server:

tibemsd.conf - This is the main configuration file. It has properties that are concerned with the EMS server.

queues.conf - Queue configuration file.

topics.conf - Topics configuration file.

users.conf - All users configuration file.

acl.conf - Permission settings for users on destinations.

routes.conf - Routes configuration file.

bridges.conf - Bridges configuration file.

factories.conf - Connection Factories configuration file.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Wildcards in Topics and Queues

The wildcard * means that any token can be in the place of *.
For example: foo.* matches all two-part destination names beginning with foo. including foo.bar and foo.boo, but not foo.bar.boo.

The wildcard > matches one or more trailing elements. For example, foo.> matches foo.bar and foo.bar.boo

Wildcards in Topics:
  • You can subscribe to wildcard topics.
  • You cannot publish to wildcard topics.
  • If foo.bar is not in the configuration file, then you can publish to foo.bar if foo.* or foo.> exists in the configuration file.
Wildcards in Queues:

You can not send or receive to wildcard queue names. However, you can use wildcard queue names in the configuration files.

For example, if the queue configuration file includes a line:
foo.* then users can create queues foo.bar, foo.bob, and so forth, but not foo.bar.bob.

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Monday, July 27, 2009

Key Interfaces in EMS - MessageProducer, MessageConsumer and MessageListner

MessageProducer:



A MessageProducer object is created by a Session object and is used for sending messages to destinations. For example, using the mySession object created in Session , the following creates a MessageProducer that sends messages to a queue named myQueue:

MessageProducer myQueueSender = mySession.createProducer(myQueue);



Once you have created a MessageProducer, you can use it to send messages. For example, the following sends a message using the queueSender created above:


myQueueSender.send(message);



You can create MessageProducers that do not identify a destination. When the sender or publisher does not specify a destination, you must specify the destination when you send or publish a message as the first parameter of the send() or publish() method.



MessageConsumer:



A MessageConsumer object is created by a Session object and is used for receiving messages sent to destinations. For example, using the mySession object, the following creates a MessageConsumer that retrieves messages from a queue named myQueue:



MessageConsumer myQueueReceiver =
mySession.createConsumer(myQueue);



For queues, messages remain on the queue until they are consumed by a MessageConsumer, the message expiration time has been reached, or the maximum size of the queue is reached.



a) Durable Subscribers for Topics: Only MessageConsumers whose client applications are running receive messages published on a topic. Optionally, Sessions can create durable subscribers to ensure that messages are received, even if the application is not currently running.



(b) Synchronous or Asynchronous Messages: The API allows for synchronous or asynchronous message consumption. For synchronous consumption, the MessageConsumer explicitly calls the receive() method on the topic or queue. For asynchronous consumption, the client registers a MessageListener for the topic or queue. When a message arrives at the destination, the TIBCO Enterprise Message Service server delivers the message by calling the listener’s onMessage() method.



MessageListner:

A MessageListener object acts as an asynchronous event handler for messages. This object implements the MessageListener interface and has one method, onMessage().The onMessage() method is called by the TIBCO Enterprise Message Service server when a message arrives on a destination. You implement the onMessage() method in your MessageListener class to perform the desired actions when a message arrives. Your implementation should handle all exceptions, and it should not throw any exceptions.



Once you create a MessageListener object, you must register it with a specific MessageConsumer. The following creates a queueListener (an implementation of the MessageListener interface) and registers it with the QueueReceiver object:



MessageListener queueListener = new MessageListener();
myQueueReceiver.setMessageListener(queueListener);



You should register the MessageListener with the MessageConsumer before calling the Connection’s start () method to begin receiving messages.

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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Key Interfaces in EMS - ConnectionFactory, Connection and Session

ConnectionFactory:



The ConnectionFactory object encapsulates a set of connection configuration parameters. When a client starts, it typically performs a Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) lookup for the ConnectionFactories that it needs. For example, the following code retrieves the InitialContext using the JNDI properties specified by env, then looks up a ConnectionFactory named myConnectionFactory.



Context ctx = new InitialContext(env);
ConnectionFactory myConnectionFactory =
(ConnectionFactory) ctx.lookup("myConnectionFactory");



Connection:



A Connection object encapsulates a virtual connection with the server.
ConnectionFactory objects create Connection objects. You use a Connection to create one or more Session objects. For example, the following creates a Connection:

Connection myConnection =
myConnectionFactory.createConnection()



When a client application completes, all open connections must be closed. Unused open connections are eventually closed, but they do consume resources that could be used for other applications. Closing a connection also closes any Sessions created by the Connection. To close a connection, use the close() method. For example:


myConnection.close();



Session:
A Session is a single-threaded context for producing or consuming messages. You create MessageProducers or MessageConsumers using Session objects. For example, using the myConnection object created in Connection above, the following creates a Session:


Session mySession =

myConnection.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);


The first parameter to the CreateSession() method determines whether the Session is transactional or not. The second parameter specifies the acknowledge mode of messages received by the session.



The remaining Key Interfaces will be explained in tomorrow's posting.

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Friday, July 24, 2009

Destination Bridges, Routes and Flow Control

Destination bridges and flow control

Please read Bridges before reading this topic

Flow control can be specified on destinations that are bridged to other destinations. If you wish the flow of messages sent by way of the bridge to slow down when receivers on the bridged-to destination cannot process the messages quickly enough, you must set the flowControl property on both destinations on either side of the bridge.

Routes and flow Control
For global topics where messages are routed between servers, flow control can be specified for a topic on either the server where messages are produced or the server where messages are received.

If the flowControl property is set on the topic on the server receiving the messages, when the pending message size limit is reached, messages are not forwarded by way of the route until the topic subscriber receives enough messages to lower the pending message size below the specified limit.

If the flowControl property is set on the topic on the server sending the messages, the server may block any topic publishers when sending new messages if messages cannot be sent quickly enough by way of the route. This could be due to network latency between the routed servers or it could be because flow control on the other server is preventing new messages from being sent.

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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Control access to the EMS Server:Authentication and Permissions

TIBCO Enterprise Message Service allows you to control access to the server by creating users and assigning passwords, creating groups, setting permissions etc. The server can also authenticate users defined in an external directory (such as an LDAP server)

Permissions for all users and groups must be defined in the access control list for the TIBCO Enterprise Message Service server. There are also administrator permissions that allow administrators to control which actions users can perform on the server such as create destinations, modify users, and view routes. Administrator permissions can apply globally, or they can be granted on specific destinations.

Enabling Access Control
There are two levels where authorization is set.


Server: The authorization property in the main configuration file enables or disables the checking of permissions for all destinations managed by the server. The authorization property also enables or disables verification of user names and passwords.

To enable authorization, edit the tibemsd.conf file:
authorization = enabled


From the command line admin utility:


set server authorization = enabled



If this is not set, then the server allows any client connection and no permissions are checked on any destination. Enabling authorization immediately applies to existing client connections (except route connections). The server begins checking permissions.

Destination: The secure property of the destinations is used to allow the server to check permissions of a client connection for that particular destination when a user attempts to perform any operation on that destination

Setting Permissions
Permissions are stored in the access control list and determine the actions a user can perform on a destination. Permissions can only be granted by users that have the appropriate administrator permissions.


Please go through the corresponding chapter in the JMS documentation for further detailed information

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