Enabling sharing of queues

If several StreamServer applications in the same application domain are used for load balancing and failover, they must be able to share queues.

Sharing is by default disabled for the queues. This to prevent from unintentional queue sharing, where one StreamServer application consumes another StreamServer application’s jobs.

If several StreamServer applications should be able to share a queue, the Platform and queue names must be exactly the same in the Design Center Projects for all StreamServer applications. This because the name of the queue used by the StreamServer applications in the runtime repository consists of both the Platform and queue name defined in Design Center. Sharing must also be enabled for the queue in all Projects.

Note:

If you disable sharing for a queue in Project A, and enable sharing for the same queue in Project B, then StreamServer B can consume StreamServer A’s jobs. StreamServer A cannot consume StreamServer B’s jobs in this case.

To enable sharing

1	Activate the generic layer.

2	Right-click the Platform view and select Manage Queues. The Manage Queues dialog box opens.

3	Select the queue to configure.

4	Select the Queueing tab.

5	Select Queue can be shared.