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| wbimb |
 Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:51 am Post subject: Monitor client connectivity |
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I want to monitor the connectivity from client application to the remote queue manager.
Can anyone tell me if there are any products available for the same. |
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| zpat |
| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:21 am Post subject: |
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For what reason?
The easiest way to tell if a particular client application has connected successfully is to monitor the OpenInput count on the queue that it reads (or the OpenOutput count for an output queue).
A decent monitoring program like AppWatch can alert if the queue is not open at a given time. |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:27 am Post subject: |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:29 am Post subject: Re: Monitor client connectivity |
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| wbimb wrote: |
| I want to monitor the connectivity from client application to the remote queue manager. |
Monitor what & why? Number of conections on the queue manager? Frequency of broken client connections? Amount of data transferred?
Most of the commercial packages do all or some of that.
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| wbimb |
| Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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Want to monitor MQ connectivity:
1. No of connections to Queue manager
2. Frequency of broken client connections
3. Amount of data transferred
But due to security reasons it will not be possible to install any commercial packages. Does anyone know of inbuilt program or command that can make the above data available |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| wbimb wrote: |
Want to monitor MQ connectivity:
1. No of connections to Queue manager
2. Frequency of broken client connections
3. Amount of data transferred
But due to security reasons it will not be possible to install any commercial packages. Does anyone know of inbuilt program or command that can make the above data available |
If you can't install commercial packages for security reasons, how did you get permission to install WMQ?? 
This sounds like someone's invented a really good-sounding rule because they can. Push back and ask for justification of the restriction.
1. The queue manager maintains a count of the connections.
2. N/A AFAIK, unless it's reported in the log (never looked, never cared).
3. Might be available from the channels somehow.
Extracting this is going to be non-trivial, and the wheel you invent is unlikely to be as good as a commercial one. Tell whoever banned commerical software that they need to sign off that TOC will be higher for a home brew solution, then ask if you need to write your own database as well. 
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| wbimb |
| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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Apart from installation of commercial packages. Also the cost for the commercial package is a concern. So if the information can be retirived from some inbuilt program or command would be of great help.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:38 am Post subject: |
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| wbimb wrote: |
| Apart from installation of commercial packages. |
So you can use a commercial monitoring package? Someone needs to be more decisive in your organisation.
| wbimb wrote: |
| Also the cost for the commercial package is a concern. |
It's often the case that the TCO for a commercial solution is far less then a home grown one.
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| So if the information can be retirived from some inbuilt program or command would be of great help. |
All that's available is described in the Monitoring MQ documentation.
IMHO the particular information you're after will be a pain in the neck to extract & you're better off paying someone who's already hurt themselves. And will provide support when it stops working.
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