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jhidalgo
PostPosted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:54 am    Post subject: Administrative users in AIX for MQ and broker Reply with quote

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Hi all,

I got into a discusion with the outsourcing about the users we should use in AIX for MQ, Broker and DB2, he is saying that it is better to use "mqsi" for db2 (for example for the db2start), mq and broker. I think this is wrong and we should create users and grant them their own permissions like for MQ being part of mqm group and so on.

Since I don't have much experience in these products in AIX I come to ask you about it, I haven't found best practices related for this specific environment.

What do you guys think in regards to the admin users for these products in AIX, should we use mqsi, should we grant permissions to personal users ?

Thanks.
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Vitor
PostPosted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:16 am    Post subject: Re: Administrative users in AIX for MQ and broker Reply with quote

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jhidalgo wrote:
What do you guys think in regards to the admin users for these products in AIX, should we use mqsi, should we grant permissions to personal users ?


Use mqsi (or similar - I've seen mqsiadmin & wmbuser in my travels) in the way you'd use mqm to administer WMQ.

Top tip for both users - ensure that they can't log on directly. This way you have the admins using their personal ids and su into mqm/mqsi, providing an audit trail from which the guilty (or inept) can be found and punished (or trouted).


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mqjeff
PostPosted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I think you missed the point, Vitor.

I think the outsourcer is recommending using mqsi as the service user for DB2, Broker and MQ, not just for Broker.
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fjb_saper
PostPosted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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mqjeff wrote:
I think you missed the point, Vitor.

I think the outsourcer is recommending using mqsi as the service user for DB2, Broker and MQ, not just for Broker.

We use a different service id for each of mq, broker and db2.
This way if you need to manually remove shared memory you can do so without affecting the other product. Of course this would mean that the product you want to kill the memory has been stopped first.

You just need to make sure that the service id of the broker has the right permissions both on MQ and DB2...

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Vitor
PostPosted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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mqjeff wrote:
I think you missed the point, Vitor.


Doh!

mqjeff wrote:
I think the outsourcer is recommending using mqsi as the service user for DB2, Broker and MQ, not just for Broker.


I think you're right.

I've always used the set up fjb_saper is describing.
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