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| Mehrdad |
 Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 12:43 am Post subject: Challenge Question - 12 / 2007 |
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Here is the first Challenge Question as experienced personally and submitted by Grand Poobah himself. As noted earlier, you can either post your replies here or if you are real jittery about others seeing your answer you can email them to ChallengeDec2007@cressida.info . Selected winner will be announced once we declare a winner and have posted the answer. Remember that the winning selection is not necessarily the first correct answer received, but also judged to be the ‘best’ (described, explained, presented ...) as determined by our select Jury Panel / Moderator group whose decision is final. General rules have been covered here - http://www.mqseries.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=40633
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Assuming a good, clean install of WMQ v6.1 on Linux, explain the following result:
[lc4eb4724136025]$ dltmqm CONFIG2
AMQ8118: WebSphere MQ queue manager does not exist.
[lc4eb4724136025 Downloads]$ dspmq
QMNAME (CONFIG2) STATUS(Ended unexpectedly)
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:51 am Post subject: |
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I guess that's MQ v6.0.
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:34 am Post subject: |
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Jeff you always come up with the real tough ones... hence a guess:
My first guess would be that although the permissions have been rigged for everybody to run dspmq (r-xr-s-r-x) the user running dltmqm is not part of the mqm group and that his group does not have the rights to delete a qmgr... Here is my rationale for it:
- Obviously the reference to the qmgr exists in mqs.ini otherwise we would not see the qmgr in dspmq.
- dltmqm returns qmgr does not exist
This is a much more difficult analysis as we have verified that the reference for the qmgr is there.
Now we will ASSUME that nobody has tampered with the var/mqm/ file system or the logs for the qmgr. This is a BIG assumption as the qmgr was shutdowm unexpectedly and Jeff did not disclose what (if any) FDCs were cut...
The most obvious path after this assumption is that the user is lacking rights to delete the qmgr
Note that Jeff did not post any username in the prompt but just what I SUSPECT is a process id. This makes things much more difficult to analyze.
Second guess is somebody tampered with the file system deleting crucial files...
Guys give your opinions. I'll be happy to learn something new (thank you Jeff)
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:03 am Post subject: |
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To be clear, the qmgr ended unexpectedly because I shut the machine down without having a script to endmqm.
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| bower5932 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:16 am Post subject: |
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Well, some things that I'd want to know:
- Exact version of WMQ that you are running
- Exact version of Operating System that you are running on
- userid that is getting the error (and what groups they are in)
- userid that did the install
- did you get an FDC file?
- I'd like to see your ini files
- is this a new qmgr? has it ever actually been started?
As far as what might be wrong,
- you aren't doing anything with mounted file systems?
- are permissions correct?
- did somebody mess with the files in the file system?
Since this is an actual jefflowrey error, my bet is on the userid and permissions.
Finally, can I assume that jefflowrey actually solved this problem or is he looking for help....  |
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:18 am Post subject: |
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| bower5932 wrote: |
Well, some things that I'd want to know:
- Exact version of WMQ that you are running
- Exact version of Operating System that you are running on
- userid that is getting the error (and what groups they are in)
- userid that did the install
- did you get an FDC file?
- I'd like to see your ini files
- is this a new qmgr? has it ever actually been started?
As far as what might be wrong,
- you aren't doing anything with mounted file systems?
- are permissions correct?
- did somebody mess with the files in the file system?
Since this is an actual jefflowrey error, my bet is on the userid and permissions.
Finally, can I assume that jefflowrey actually solved this problem or is he looking for help.... |
Be fair... get into the challenge spirit.
Don't ask for more information deal with the hand you've been given and place forth your possible interpretations...
Have fun 
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:24 am Post subject: |
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| bower5932 wrote: |
| Finally, can I assume that jefflowrey actually solved this problem or is he looking for help.... |
Of course I solved it.
Otherwise, I'd suggest trying to recreate the problem with your possible solutions, and seeing how confident that makes you.
The exact version of MQ shouldn't matter, the exact version of operating system shouldn't matter - one could probably create the same problem on Windows with some extra effort.
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| bower5932 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:13 am Post subject: |
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| fjb_saper wrote: |
Be fair... get into the challenge spirit.
Don't ask for more information deal with the hand you've been given and place forth your possible interpretations...
Have fun |
I guess my support background is coming through.
As far as what may have caused these results, you can get it on Windows by manually editing the registry and deleting info related to your qmgr. You can probably get the same results on Linux by having a corrupt (manually edited) ini file. |
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| Gaya3 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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Hi 
This could be due to the missing of default queue manager value to that current machine after the fresh installation.
1. Its required to go through mqs.ini file (Path: /var/mqm/)
2. Check for the default queue manager stanza,
3. If its not properly set, then its required to set it to the queue manager CONFIG2 as the following
DefaultQueueManager:
CONFIG2
4. For unix we have to set the Host name too in the mqs.ini file
Name=host1/CONFIG2
5. Save it and try to delete the queue manager.
Let me give a try....... 
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| Mehrdad |
| Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:28 am Post subject: |
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It's been a week since the initial Challenge Question posting. So far 3 submitted possible answers have been posted, 1 submission received via email as well.
It's still early December days, yet wondering if most of the rest of 240+ viewers found the challenge not challenging enough, found it too vague or difficult, could not be bothered to submit an entry, are still thinking about and toying with an answer .......
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| Toronto_MQ |
| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:19 am Post subject: |
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We've seen similar errors in the past. If this server is in a cluster (HA cluster, not MQ) and the offline script did not execute correctly - or the server was just powered down without a proper endmqm as Jeff stated, and the filesystems unmounted then you would see this result.
Both servers maintain their own mqs.ini so the dspmq will work, but the dltmqm command will fail as the data and log paths are not there/accessible.
So my theory(ies) would be that either:
a) the dltmqm is being executed on the other server in the cluster;
b) it's the correct server but the online scripts failed to mount the filesystems properly for whatever reason;
c) it's a standalone server and your data/log paths are NFS and not mounted
Thought I'd hazard a guess!
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:19 am Post subject: |
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It's not a machine in an HA cluster... 
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| Toronto_MQ |
| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:48 am Post subject: |
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Boooooo! And the data/log paths aren't NFS mounted (or should I say unmounted)?
Oh well, I tried. Enough thinking for today. |
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Toronto_MQ wrote: |
Boooooo! And the data/log paths aren't NFS mounted (or should I say unmounted)?
Oh well, I tried. Enough thinking for today. |
No, but it's been interesting to see how many different ways it is apparently possible to produce this symptom.
For the record, this qmgr was running on a Linux VMWare guest on my laptop. And, no, the data/logs were on a native partition on the HD, and not unmounted at the time.
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| AkankshA |
| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:44 am Post subject: |
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well only last few days have left.... and i could not recreate this scenerio on my windows machine....  may be i do lack the time and brains for that
Some of the steps i followed or gueesses i made :
The initial prompt for the executing commands is different
lc4eb4724136025]$ dltmqm CONFIG2
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[lc4eb4724136025 Downloads]$ dspmq
so either its a different user logged in or change in profile --> depicting that that environemnt is possibly different for both commands.
Also there has been some corruption of data/file system (though i did try playing with registry and files but no luck yet such scenerio is rare wrt MQ and something has gone wrong drastically)
may be the user executing dltmqm command does not have destroy access on QM directory....
another guess could be - mq migration been done from 5.3 to 6.0 and CONFIG2 could not be migrated successfully.
may be...
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