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| sdrazi |
 Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject: Best MQ administration tool |
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Apprentice
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Hi
Can anyone please recommend an MQ administration tool which will help easy administration and help debug admin issues on MQ?
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 11:06 pm Post subject: Re: Best MQ administration tool |
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| sdrazi wrote: |
| Can anyone please recommend an MQ administration tool which will help easy administration and help debug admin issues on MQ? |
Have a look through the section. Each of the tools has strengths and weaknesses, most people have their particular favourites or requirements that need particular software.
For what it's worth, I prefer to use the command line and the Explorer rather than 3rd party tools because I know wherever I end up they'll be available.
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| sebastianhirt |
| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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Yatiri
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I tried a lot of tools. Some I liked better than others. But at the end I always came back to good old runmqsc.
Especially when it comes to clustering, there is not really a GUI that can compete (IMHO).
As one of my former working buddies used to say: "Never trust a GUI"  |
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| zpat |
| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 12:05 am Post subject: |
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| For zero cost - MQ Explorer (from MQ v6 - but works with v5 queue managers) or Support Pac MO71. |
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| zpat |
| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:07 am Post subject: |
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In my opinion, add-on admin tools (beyond the MQ explorer or MO71) are not always needed.
What you need is (a) good standards for MQ admin and development and (b) good understanding of the base products (c) trained people using proper procedures to make changes and (d) secured queue managers.
In other words - address the cause of problems, not the symptoms. |
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| zpat |
| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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You seem overly keen on it - why is that?
All I can say is that monitoring is not always needed if MQ is used properly - it does not go wrong.
Some simple alerting on queue depth perhaps but "needing" monitoring means your MQ setup is not robust in the first place.
It's the old story of swallowing a spider to catch a fly etc. |
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 6:47 am Post subject: |
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Looks to me that if he isn't working for them, he's getting a kick back for every customer he can lure...
Agent less monitoring has been around for ages and it is mostly "in bandwidth". Most of us want our monitoring to be "out of bandwidth" and you just can't do that without some sort of software installation on the target box... 
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| RogerLacroix |
| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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| fjb_saper wrote: |
| Looks to me that if he isn't working for them, he's getting a kick back for every customer he can lure... |
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| senMQ |
| Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:41 am Post subject: |
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I'm not a big proponent of MQ explorer as it opens up the MQ environment (through the serverconn channels)
So, I rely on the good old runmqsc. This is what most of the sys admins use. |
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| RogerLacroix |
| Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:32 am Post subject: |
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| senMQ wrote: |
| So, I rely on the good old runmqsc. This is what most of the sys admins use. |
Actually, most MQAdmins of medium to large sized companies purchase an MQ package that provides them with configuration, administration and monitoring.
Once you get the MQ tool setup and running it is really a great time-saver. In the past, I have used Candle's CCC and contact admin's MQ Contact Admin and I was most definitely way more productive using those tools than using the default MQ tools.
The one MQ tool that I would like to try someday is QPasa. I've heard a lot of good things about it.
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