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WM250MY - IBM WebSphere MQ- Designing and Architecting Clustering Solutions

Course outline

4 days
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Duration

4 days

Course Description

These four-day, instructor-led course teaches the intermediate skills required by an administrator of an IBM WebSphere MQ clustered environment.

This course is essential for anyone responsible for the design and administration of WebSphere MQ solutions that include MQ clusters. Through lecture and labs, students learn how to set up simple clusters, design and set up a sophisticated cluster, manage clusters, perform full repository re-assignment, accomplish queue manager cluster removal, and use diagnostics to determine problems within an MQ cluster.

Audience

This is an intermediate course for technical professionals who need clustering administrator skills for any of the WebSphere MQ products. While this course is based on WebSphere MQ V6, it is also appropriate for people who support prior versions of WebSphere MQ clusters on distributed platforms.

Prerequisites

You 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), or (VM151)
  • WebSphere MQ System Administration (AIX) (MQ152), (WM1502), or (VM152)
  • WebSphere MQ System Administration (Sun) (MQ155), (WM155), or (VM155)
  • WebSphere MQ System Administration for iSeries (MQ160)
  • WebSphere MQ for z/OS System Administration (MQ201)

Course Objectives

  • Explain the basic concepts of an MQ cluster
  • Set up a simple cluster
  • Use administrative commands to manage an MQ cluster
  • Describe problems that may be encountered with MQ clusters, as well as tools and techniques for isolating these problems
  • Explain the concepts of workload management
  • Define marooned messages and discuss alternatives for handling them
  • Describe security, recovery, and failover considerations necessary when designing a cluster, as well as disaster planning and testing
  • Implement a complex MQ cluster including more than three queue managers
  • List the design considerations for a WebSphere MQ clustering solution, including the use of multiple overlapping clusters and techniques for dividing very large organizations of systems
  • Define the process to incorporate non-cluster WebSphere MQ queue managers into a cluster, including security considerations when using a gateway approach
  • Describe cluster workload exits

Key Topics

  • Overview of IBM WebSphere MQ clustering
  • Exercise: Setting up a simple MQ cluster
  • WebSphere MQ cluster administration
  • Exercise: Using administration commands
  • WebSphere MQ cluster problem determination and resolution
  • Exercise: Resolving MQ cluster problems
  • Design considerations and operations
  • Exercise: Group design and implementation
  • IBM WebSphere MQ clustering advanced design topics
  • Exercise: Advanced solution design and implementation
  • Exercise: Implementing security in a queue manager cluster
  • Exercise: Sample cluster workload exit
  • z/OS IBM WebSphere MQ cluster

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