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| biyer |
 Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject: best practices on Queue Managers |
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Hi,
I am checking if there are any best practices that people in this forum are aware of when managing queue managers.
In our environment, we have a problem where we have a single queue manager installed across multiple countries. We are facing a problem now, when it comes to installing patches...etc that we need to take approvals from all countries before stopping and starting the queue manager and its services. I feel that this kind of component sharing is not something that is good from an availability and recovery perspective.
At the same time, I also need to know what are the pro(s) and con(s) of having a single queue manger across all countries(9) in total from perspective of availability, performance and importantly security.
thank you.
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| zpat |
| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Use a hardware cluster (MSCS for Windows, HACMP for AIX etc) to host the queue manager. |
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| biyer |
| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks !
Is that the only option ? This will mean, I'll have to ask our mgmt to fork out extra $ for another set of H/W and the clustering solution.
Any other best practices under management of queue managers of reason why not have more than 1 Queue manager |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| why not have more than 1 Queue manager |
Because MQ Clustering is not a substitute for hardware clustering (see the apparently endless discussions on this topic in the forum). It's a load balancing solution that can also aid the administration of multiple queue managers. 
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| zpat |
| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:01 am Post subject: |
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So you fork out for more queue managers instead then... up to you.
I would personally suggest that having at least one hardware clustered queue manager per (large) country or region makes sense.
You might want to host several queue managers on the same platform for different uses (eg levels of testing) and of course have separate test and production hardware installations.
Virtual servers may provide a cheaper option for hardware but you still pay the same license for MQ. |
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