IBM MQ

WM212G: IBM MQ V8 Advanced System Administration

(Distributed)


             Recommended Duration: 4 Days
Skill Level: Advanced
Cost: $4,500 (b/GST)

This course expands the basic skill sets that are developed in the Technical Introduction and System Administration courses. It focuses on features and facilities of IBM MQ, such as clustering and security. Specifically, you learn about implementing a cluster and authenticating connections, channels, and users. Other topics include securing channels with Secure Socket Layer (SSL), channel exit administration, advanced client features, event and message monitoring, and publish/subscribe administration.


Audience


This advanced skills course is designed for technical professionals who require advanced administrator skills for IBM MQ on distributed operating systems, or who provide support to others who administer IBM MQ. This course is based on IBM MQ V8 but is also appropriate for students who support prior versions of WebSphere MQ.


Prerequisites


You should have the skills that are required to complete basic IBM MQ system administration tasks in a distributed environment. These skills can be obtained through practical experience or by successfully completing -

Course Agenda


Manage client connections and enable client connection functions such as conversation sharing and read ahead to improve performance
Use Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) to secure TCP/IP channels
Authenticate IBM MQ channels, connections, and users
Implement channel exit programs
Group a set of queue managers in a cluster to distribute the workload of message traffic across queues and queue managers
Implement IBM MQ high availability
Monitor application activity, events, and messages
Implement a dead-letter queue message handler
Administer distributed publish/subscribe networks
Administer Java Message Service (JMS) in IBM MQ


Course Overview


Day 1

  • Course introduction
  • Managing clients and connections
  • Exercise: Configuring for shared conversations
  • Securing IBM MQ channels with SSL and TLS
  • Exercise: Securing channels with SSL

Day 2

  • Authenticating channels and connections
  • Exercise: Implementing connection authentication
  • Implementing an IBM MQ cluster
  • Exercise: Configuring a basic IBM MQ cluster
  • More troubleshooting tools and techniques

Day 3

  • Exercise: Handling messages on the dead-letter queue
  • Exercise: Tracing message routes
  • High availability
  • Introduction to distributed publish/subscribe

Day 4

  • Exercise: Configuring distributed publish/subscribe
  • Supporting JMS with IBM MQ
  • Exercise: Administering JMS resources in IBM MQ
  • Course summary