Duration

3 days

Abstract

IBM Education Advantage Program Eligibility:

Yes - IBM Education Pack - online account

Audience

This is an advanced course for technical professionals who perform advanced administrator tasks for any of the WebSphere MQ products except WebSphere MQ for VSE, or who provide support to others performing these tasks. While this course is based on WebSphere MQ V6, it is also appropriate for people who support prior versions of WebSphere MQ on distributed platforms.

Pre-requisites

Before taking this course, students should have practical experience in working with IBM WebSphere MQ, and complete any one of the following courses (or have equivalent experience):

WebSphere MQ System Administration (Windows) (MQ151) (WM151) (VM151)
WebSphere MQ System Administration (AIX) (MQ152) (WM152) (VM152)
WebSphere MQ System Administration (Sun) (MQ155) (WM155) (VM155)
WebSphere MQ System Administration for iSeries (MQ160)
WebSphere MQ for z/OS System Administration (MQ201)

Course Objective

After completing this course, students should be able to:

Configure message channels and MQI channels, and manage them effectively
Manage a dead letter queue
Implement aspects of security in a distributed queuing environment
Improve the performance of WebSphere MQ, taking into account the requirements of the installation
Explain the scope of automated function that is available to support the management of a WebSphere MQ network

Course Outline

Managing message channels
Managing MQI channels
Native WebSphere MQ channel security
Secure socket layer (SSL) support for TCP/IP channels
WebSphere MQ key repositories
Certificates
Performance and tuning
Managing a WebSphere MQ network

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.