WM252G: Designing, Implementing and

Managing IBM MQ V8 Clusters



             Recommended Duration: 3 Days
Skill Level: Intermediate
Cost: $3,300 (b/GST)

This course teaches you how to design, implement, and manage IBM MQ queue manager clusters. It begins with an overview of IBM MQ cluster components, and continues with information about how to design and set up a cluster, manage clusters, and identify, isolate, and resolve cluster problems. You also learn how to configure cluster attributes to balance the workload within an IBM MQ cluster. The course also introduces publish/subscribe clusters. Hands-on lab exercises throughout the course reinforce the concepts that are described in the lecture.



Audience


This intermediate course is designed for administrators of IBM MQ V8.



Prerequisites


You should have experience with IBM MQ administration and successfully complete one of these courses:


Course Agenda


Describe the components of a queue manager cluster
Design and implement a queue manager cluster
Use IBM MQ commands and IBM MQ Explorer to implement and manage a queue manager cluster
Identify, isolate, and resolve cluster problems
Monitor application messages, control messages, and logs in the cluster
Use queue manager, queue, and channel cluster workload management attributes to balance the cluster workload
Use multiple cluster transmission queues to isolate the workload
Describe the cluster design considerations for security, recovery, and failover
Implement a complex cluster design by overlapping clusters or adding a gateway queue manager
Add non-cluster queue managers into a cluster
Implement a publish/subscribe cluster
Describe the use of cluster workload exits
Summarize cluster design, implementation, and administration practices



Course Overview


Day 1

  • Course introduction
  • IBM MQ clustering overview
  • Designing and implementing a cluster
  • Exercise: Defining and testing a cluster
  • Managing a cluster
  • Exercise: Managing the cluster

Day 2

  • Problem determination and resolution
  • Exercise: Identifying and resolving cluster problems
  • Managing the workload in clusters
  • Exercise: Balancing the workload
  • Securing the cluster
  • Exercise: Securing a cluster

Day 3

  • More cluster design considerations
  • Exercise: Implementing overlapping clusters
  • Introduction to publish/subscribe clusters
  • Exercise: Configuring a publish/subscribe cluster
  • Course summary