The MQ Appliance messaging server must provide a clustering capability.

From IBM MQ Appliance V9.0 AS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of SRG-APP-000225-AS-000154

Associated with: CCI-001190

SV-89567r1_rule The MQ Appliance messaging server must provide a clustering capability.

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This requirement is dependent upon system criticality and confidentiality requirements. If the system categorization and confidentiality levels do not specify redundancy requirements, this requirement is NA.Failure to a known secure state helps prevent a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability in the event of a failure of the information system or a component of the system. When application failure is encountered, preserving application state facilitates application restart and return to the operational mode of the organization with less disruption of mission/business processes.Clustering of multiple messaging servers is a common approach to providing fail-safe application availability when system MAC and confidentiality levels require redundancy.Satisfies: SRG-APP-000225-AS-000154, SRG-APP-000225-AS-000166

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Review system categorization to determine if redundancy is a requirement. If the system categorization does not specify redundancy requirements, this requirement is NA. On each member of the HA pair: Establish an SSH command line session as an admin user. To access the MQ Appliance CLI, enter: mqcli To run the dspmq command, enter: dspmq -s -o ha One of the appliances should be running as primary, the other as secondary. If HA is not configured and the primary and secondary running, this is a finding.

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To configure HA: 1. Use three Ethernet cables to directly connect two appliances together using ports eth1, eth2, and eth3. 2. Configure the three connected MQ Appliance ports (on both appliances) as follows: Interface Purpose IP address/CIDR eth1 HA group primary interface x.x.x.x/24 eth2 HA group alternative interface x.x.x.x/24 eth3 HA Replication interface x.x.x.x/24 On the second appliance, enter the following command from the MQ Appliance CLI: prepareha -s [SecretText] -a [eth 1 IPAddress of first appliance] [-t timeout] On the first appliance, enter the following command: crthagrp -s [SecretText] -a [eth 1 IPAddress of second appliance] crtmqm [HA QM name] –p [port] –sx Note: The queue manager’s data (queues, queue messages, etc.) is replicated from the appliance in the primary HA role (first appliance) to the appliance in the secondary HA role (second appliance).

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