Course Description

This course teaches you how to customize, operate, administer, and monitor IBM MQ on-premises on distributed operating systems. The course covers configuration, day-to-day administration, problem recovery, security management, and performance monitoring. In addition to the instructor-led lectures, the hands-on exercises provide practical experience with distributed queuing, working with MQ clients, and implementing clusters, publish/subscribe messaging. You also learn how to implement authorization, authentication, and encryption, and you learn how to monitor performance.

Note: This course does not cover any of the features of MQ for z/OS or MQ for IBM i.

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the IBM MQ deployment options
• Create and manage queue managers, queues, and channels
• Use the IBM MQ sample programs and utilities to test the IBM MQ network
• Configure distributed queuing
• Configure MQ client connections to a queue manager
• Define and administer a queue manager cluster
• Administer Java Message Service (JMS) in MQ
• 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
• Manage IBM MQ security
• Monitor the activities and performance of an IBM MQ system

Audience

This course is designed for technical professionals who require the skills to administer IBM MQ.

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of IBM MQ concepts and features
• Some knowledge of TCP/IP configuration
• Basic experience with Windows 2016 system administration

Content

Introducing IBM MQ

• Exercise: Getting started with IBM MQ

Working with IBM MQ administration tools

• Exercise: Working with IBM MQ administration tools

Configuring distributed queuing

• Exercise: Implementing distributed queuing

Managing clients and client connections

• Exercise: Connecting an IBM MQ client

Advanced IBM MQ client features
Working with queue manager clusters

• Exercise: Implementing a basic cluster

Publish/subscribe messaging

• Exercise: Configuring publish/subscribe message queuing

Implementing basic security in IBM MQ

• Exercise: Controlling access to IBM MQ

Securing IBM MQ channels with TLS

• Exercise: Securing channels with TLS

Authenticating channels and connections

• Exercise: Implementing connection authentication

Supporting JMS with IBM MQ
Diagnosing problems

• Exercise: Running an IBM MQ trace

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

High availability
Monitoring and configuring IBM MQ for performance

• Exercise: Monitoring IBM MQ for performance
• Exercise: Monitoring resources with the IBM MQ Console