This course is designed to provide technical professionals with the skills needed to administer IBM MQ queue managers on distributed platforms such as Windows 2008 Server and Linux.

OBJECTIVE

• Plan the implementation of IBM MQ
• Install IBM MQ
• Perform basic customization and administration tasks
• Enable a queue manager to exchange messages with another queue manager
• Use a trigger message and a trigger monitor to start an application to process messages
• Implement basic queue manager restart and recovery procedures
• Identify the cause of a problem
• Plan for and implement basic IBM MQ security features
• Use accounting and statistics messages to monitor the activities in an IBM MQ system
• Use IBM MQ sample programs to test queue manager, queue, channel, and client configuration

AUDIENCE

This intermediate course is designed for technical professionals who require the skills to administer any of the IBM MQ queue managers except IBM MQ for z/OS or IBM MQ for iSeries.

TOPICS

IBM MQ System Administration

Course introduction
IBM MQ review
Installing IBM MQ
Creating a basic configuration
Exercise: Using commands to create queue managers and queues
Introduction to IBM MQ Explorer
Exercise: Using IBM MQ Explorer to create queue managers and queues
Introduction to the Message Queue Interface (MQI)
Exercise: Using IBM MQ sample programs to test the configuration
Implementing trigger messages and monitors
Exercise: Implementing a trigger monitor
Message persistence and recovery
Exercise: Using a media image to restore a queue
Identifying the cause of problems
Exercise: Running an IBM MQ trace
Implementing distributed queuing
Exercise: Connecting queue managers
Implementing basic security
Exercise: Controlling access to IBM MQ
IBM MQ clients
Exercise: Connecting an IBM MQ client
Backing up and restoring IBM MQ object definitions
Exercise: Backing up and restoring IBM MQ object definitions
Monitoring and configuring IBM MQ for performance
Exercise: Monitoring and configuring IBM MQ for performance
JMS administration overview
Course summary