# Configure Routes and Zones

You can create routes using the administration tool, or the administration APIs (see `com.tibco.tibjms.admin.RouteInf`o in the online documentation).

## Syntax

To create a route using the administration tool, first connect to one of the servers, then use the `create route` command with the following syntax:

    create route name url=URL zone_name=zone_name zone_type=1hop|mhop properties

- name is the name of the server at the other end of the route; it also becomes the name of the route.
- URL specifies the other server by its URL—including protocol and port.

  If your environment is configured for fault tolerance, the URL can be a comma-separated list of URLs denoting fault-tolerant servers. For more information about fault tolerance, see Fault Tolerance.

- zone_name specifies that the route belongs to the routing zone with this name. When absent, the default value is `default_mhop_zone` (this default yields backward compatibility with configurations from releases earlier than 4.0).
- The zone type is either `1hop` or `mhop`. When omitted, the default value is `mhop`.
- properties is a space-separated list of properties for the route. Each property has the syntax:

      prop_name=value

  For gating properties that control the flow of topics along the route, see Selectors for Routing Topic Messages.

  For properties that configure the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol for the route, see Routing and SSL.

## Example

For example, these commands on server A would create routes to servers B and C. The route to B belongs to the one-hop zone `Z1`. The route to C belongs to the multi-hop zone `ZM`.

     create route B url=tcp://B:7454 zone_name=Z1 zone_type=1hop
     create route C url=tcp://C:7455 zone_name=ZM zone_type=mhop

## Show Routes

You can display these routes using the `show routes` command in the administration tool:

       show   routes
       Route    T    ConnID   URL             Zone      T
       B        A     3       tcp://B:7454    Z1        1
       C        A      -      tcp://C:7455    ZM        m

- The Route column lists the name of the passive server.
- The `T` column indicates whether the route is active (`A`) or passive (`P`), from the perspective of server A.
- The `ConnID` column contains either an integer connection ID if the route is currently connected, or a dash (-) if the route is not connected.

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