9.54 MSMQ Agents
This section describes the MSMQ agents. This agent is only available for Real-Time workflow configurations.
There are two types of MSMQ agents:
- MSMQ Collection Agent
- MSMQ Processing Agent
The MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queuing) Agent enables to act as an MSMQ client communicating with an MSMQ server. MSMQ is a messaging protocol that allows applications running on separate servers/processes to communicate in a failsafe manner. A queue is a temporary storage location from which messages can be sent and received reliably, as and when conditions permit.
Supported Features
The MSMQ agent supports the following:
- Setting up connections with domain, username and password
- Configure the queue name (path name) to send/receive MSMQ message
- Receiving messages from an MSMQ queue
- Send messages to an MSMQ queue
Prerequisites
The reader of this information should be familiar with:
- MSMQ
- Microsoft DCOM (For more information, refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/legacy/ms703266(v%3Dvs.85))
The section includes the following subsections: