Learn how to administer WebSphere MQ 5.3 for Windows NT and UNIX. Through a series of lectures and hands-on exercises, you learn to handle the necessary general system administration tasks.
WebSphere Training Audience
System administrators responsible for maintaining an WebSphere MQ installation in Windows and UNIX platforms.
WebSphere Training Prerequisites
Technical Introduction to WebSphere MQ.
WebSphere Training Course duration
Three Days
WebSphere Training Topics
A review of WebSphere MQ concepts
Installation and configuration
MQI calls
Triggering setup
Queue manager setup
Distributed queue management
Problem determination
Transaction and recovery support
WebSphere MQ client
Security
Queue manager clustering
WebSphere Training Learning Objectives
After completing this course, the student should be able to:
Plan the implementation of WebSphere MQ on a selected platform
Install WebSphere MQ
Perform simple customization and administration tasks
Enable a queue manager to exchange messages with another and to support
an WebSphere MQ client
Implement basic restart and recovery procedures
Perform basic problem determination
Perform WebSphere MQ clustering
Secure the queues for data access and administration using role-based security
Execute an WebSphere MQ listener as a trigger
WebSphere Training Course outline
1. Review of WebSphere MQ
What is WebSphere MQ?
Types of communication
What’s in a message?
What is a queue?
What is a queue manager?
WebSphere MQ objects
Triggering
WebSphere MQ products
The WebSphere MQ platforms
Supported programming languages
2. Basic Administration
Installation notes
Objects to configure
Object naming convention
Administration interface
Queue manager administration
The MQSC command
Testing queues
3. Message Queue Interface
MQI call overview
MQI call details
Persistence and priority
Correlation ID
Report generation
Message expiry
Message segmentation
Distribution lists
4. Triggering
Basic mechanism
Conditions for triggering
Steps to setup triggering
Creating the initiation queue
Creating the process object
Create the main queue
Create a trigger monitor
Common causes of failure
5. Queue Manager Architecture
Physical components
Applications components
Windows directory structure
Queue manager directories
Configuration storage
Installable services
6. Problem Determination
Error logs
Tracing
Dead letter queue
Client/server logging
Queue manager connections
Application errors
Client applications
Server connected application
Rules table
Common problem resolution
7. Distributed Queue Management
Basic concepts
Channel configuration
Receiver side
Clusters
Steps to setup a cluster
Steps for load balancing
Load balancing mechanism
8. Security
Security mechanism
Principals and groups
Securing administration
Securing WebSphere MQ objects
Using setmqaut
Viewing security settings
9. Transaction and Recovery Support
Needs for transactions
Message persistence
Logging system
Physical object recovery
Media recovery
Resource manager
Syncpoint coordinator
External syncpoint co-ordinator
10. The MQI in the Network
Conversion of data
Message descriptor
Requesting data conversion
The command server
Dead letter queue
11. WebSphere MQ Clients
How MQ client/server works
MQI client limitations
Installing WebSphere MQ client
Defining the MQI channel
Defining connections
Channel instances
Auto definition of channels
RUNMQFMT
12. WebSphere MQ for Windows
Channel group
Connections
Installation
Administrator on version 2.0
Administrator on version 2.1
Supported and unsupported
Initialization files
Definition files
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