Course objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the IBM MQ deployment options
- Plan for the implementation of IBM MQ on-premises or in the Cloud
- Use IBM MQ commands and the IBM MQ Explorer to create and manage queue managers, queues, and channels
- Use the IBM MQ sample programs and utilities to test the IBM MQ network
- Enable a queue manager to exchange messages with another queue manager
- Configure client connections to a 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
- Use IBM MQ troubleshooting tools to identify the cause of a problem in the IBM MQ network
- Plan for and implement basic IBM MQ security features
- Use accounting and statistics messages to monitor the activities of an IBM MQ system
- Define and administer a simple queue manager cluster
Course outlines
- Course introduction
- IBM® MQ review
- IBM® MQ installation and deployment options
- Creating a queue manager and queues
- Exercise: Using commands to create a queue manager and queues
- Introduction to IBM® MQ Explorer
- Exercise: Using IBM® MQ Explorer to create queue managers and queues
- Testing the IBM® MQ implementation
- Exercise: Using IBM® MQ sample programs to test the configuration
- Implementing distributed queuing
- Exercise: Connecting queue managers
- IBM® MQ clients
- Exercise: Connecting an IBM® MQ client
- Implementing trigger messages and monitors
- Exercise: Implementing a trigger monitor
- Diagnosing problems
- Exercise: Running an IBM® MQ trace
- Implementing basic security in IBM® MQ
- Exercise: Controlling access to IBM® MQ
- Backing up and restoring IBM® MQ messages and object definitions
- Exercise: Using a media image to restore a queue
- Exercise: Backing up and restoring IBM® MQ object definitions
- Introduction to queue manager clusters
- Exercise: Implementing a basic cluster
- Monitoring and configuring IBM® MQ for performance
- Exercise: Monitoring IBM® MQ for performance