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| raj |
 Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 9:42 am Post subject: Going crazy without a MQ Monitoring Tool |
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Centurion
Joined: 31 Mar 2002
Posts: 104
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Hi,
I am incharge for setup and maintanance of a MQSeries network in global company with servers across the globe. My job is to see that the MQ network connectivity is perfect and fix problems as and when there is a problem.
My problem is , the client doesnt give access to the servers, i have to coordinate with the local Unix or available resource in that local place and fix problem. Most of the time those people are not very knowledgable in MQ. If the MQ problem is not cleared the client complains that i am not doing my job. Basically i dont have access to any server, .
Is there any tool for monitoring, from a single location all the MQ infrastructure across the globe. I want only monitoring, they wont give me privileges to modefy or reconfigure the Objects.
Or in the available tools like PATROL, QPasa, Contact Admin can we configure them to only monitor access??
Thanks
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| mgrabinski |
| Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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Master
Joined: 16 Oct 2001
Posts: 246
Location: Katowice, Poland
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I'm using Candle Command Center (I think they changed names recently to OMEGAMON XE). There is an agent for monitoring and a seprate one for configuring. When you install the agent on all of your MQ managers, you will be able to monitor them from a single point.
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| dgolding |
| Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 1:59 am Post subject: |
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Yatiri
Joined: 16 May 2001
Posts: 668
Location: Switzerland
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BMC Patrol for MQ - Operator can be configured for read-only access. You need a user-ID and password on the server, but this should NOT be part of the MQM group. By this means, you can't change anything, but you can see channel and queue alarms.
In Unix terms, you can change the login shell to be unusable, so it is not possible to "telnet" into the box, but you CAN connect via a Patrol Console.
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| mikiu |
| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 9:58 am Post subject: |
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Acolyte
Joined: 23 Jul 2002
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Location: toronto
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| I am using Omengamon XE/DE form Candle and it does everything for me |
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| kfhickel |
| Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2002 4:05 am Post subject: |
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Newbie
Joined: 30 Dec 2001
Posts: 9
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(Disclaimer, I am an employee of MQSoftware, Inc, producers of Q Pasa!)
By using the OLS feature of Q Pasa! you can have users that can setup and control monitoring, but not make any MQ object changes. This would allow you to setup a monitoring network with all of your customers.
If you have any questions, please check out our web site at http://www.mqsoftware.com/products/qpasa.jsp, or get back to me.
Thanks,
Kelly Hickel
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| zpat |
| Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2002 4:26 am Post subject: |
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Jedi Council
Joined: 19 May 2001
Posts: 5866
Location: UK
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If you can get a commercial tool purchased and installed globally then congratulations! There are many excellent products - some of which need a management server added. BMC, contact admin, Qpasa, Candle are all good.
However if you can code in something like Java then you might be able to write a program to monitor the status of the queue managers and then investigate problems with the MQ Explorer. |
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| dgolding |
| Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2002 4:53 am Post subject: |
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Yatiri
Joined: 16 May 2001
Posts: 668
Location: Switzerland
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(Disclaimer: BMC gave me a shirt and a jumper, and Candle gave me a polo-shirt which fell apart on me  )
A rough and ready way to start is to use a Supportpac (written in C) like this one:
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/ts/mqseries/txppacs/ms0k.html
This is a real "roll-your-own" approach - pull off the "channel stopped in error" and "queue full" events, and create and dispatch trouble tickets for people to fix |
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