Duration
3 days
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:
- IBM MQ V8 System Administration (using Windows for labs) (WM207G) or (ZM207G)
- IBM MQ V8 System Administration (using Linux for labs) (WM209G)
- IBM MQ V8 System Administration for z/OS (WM302G)
Key topics
- Course introduction
- IBM MQ clustering overview
- Designing and implementing a cluster
- Exercise: Defining and testing a cluster
- Managing a cluster
- Exercise: Managing the cluster
- 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
- More cluster design considerations
- Exercise: Implementing overlapping clusters
- Introduction to publish/subscribe clusters
- Exercise: Configuring a publish/subscribe cluster
Objectives
- 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
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.