Message Broker Communication

A Message Broker can establish communication with another Message Broker by:

• Initiating the communication with another Message Broker during its startup procedure.
• Being contacted by another Message Broker when that Message Broker starts.

Each Message Broker has its own STMessageBroker68.ini configuration file located in the same folder as the executable STMessageBroker68.exe. The optional server_names parameter in the STMessageBroker68.ini file identifies other Message Brokers in the Message Broker cloud.

When a Message Broker first starts, it reads the STMessageBroker68.ini file and attempts to connect with each of the Message Brokers listed in server_names list. If any of these Message Brokers is not running or cannot be reached when contact is attempted, communication is not established with that Message Broker. However, each Message Broker will retry the connection periodically.