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| ggulati2 |
 Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:15 am Post subject: MQ - monitoring tool |
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Is there any free/paid monitoring tool available in market for MQ 5.3 which can be used by non-MQ administrators to monitor the channel status,queue depth etc ?
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:24 am Post subject: |
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Moved to Monitoring section
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:26 am Post subject: |
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Most of the monitoring tools described in this section require WMQ administrators (or at least WMQ aware) support for their initial set up, but don't require WMQ knowledge to use day to day. If (for example) a Tivoli alert is raised for a channel in retry you don't need WMQ knowledge to understand the alert.
How you fix the problem without WMQ knowledge is another question.
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It is common to deploy this type of tooling to the helpdesk to do a bit of first-level problem-determination - channel status, queue depth, qmgr availability.
Tivoli (and non-IBM offerings) generally include a rules repository that enables rules-based automation to restart a dead qmgr, start channels, increase maxdepth by a percentage, email/page/phone sysadmins, and so on.
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| ggulati2 |
| Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:58 am Post subject: |
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Is there any free tool in market ?
If not,can you please pin down any paid tool which can be used for basic level 1 monitoring tool and is easy to deploy ? |
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| bruce2359 |
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A quick search of Mr. Google for wmq+monitoring should provide you with a variety of fee-based tools. Look at Our Sponsors at the top-right of this page, too.
[edit] Free software is frequently worth exactly what you paid for it. If there's a business requirement to monitor and manage your environment, there is also a requirement for $ to pay for it.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:35 am Post subject: |
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| ggulati2 wrote: |
| If not,can you please pin down any paid tool which can be used for basic level 1 monitoring tool and is easy to deploy ? |
You'll find most of the usual suspects discussed in this section; the number of threads for each is probably a good indication of how easy they are to deploy/use!!! 
One side note - as WMQv53 is out of support, make sure whatever version of whatever you choose to use supports it. For basic level 1 monitoring I don't see that being an issue, but worth keeping an eye out.
The problem obviously disappears once you move to a supported version of WMQ.
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| zpat |
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| support pac MO71 can be de-tuned by internal controls or operate within the constraints of granular security controls applied to MQ. |
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| RogerLacroix |
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