In this article, I will show you how to configure a horizontal cluster in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator with two nodes. Cluster setup provides 24x7 high availability. Even if one of the node goes down, the other node can serve the requests. Cluster is needed to share the work load which is possible through load balancing in Web server. The nodes in the cluster share the same database and they ensure that all the nodes are consistent and show the same output to customer. There are two ways to install Sterling B2B Integrator : a. Using GUI. b. Using Response files. In this article, I have used response files for installing Sterling Integrator v5.2.6.1 with ifix level 5 . Starting from version 5.2.6, Sterling Integrator uses IBM Installation Manager (IIM) for installation. In Node1, install sterling integrator in the same way as you do for a standalone system. 1. Set lang as en_US. export LANG=en_US 2. echo $LANG en_US 3. Install the base v...