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| amitjain |
 Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 4:37 am Post subject: How to increase MQ error log file after creating qmanager |
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Hi,
I want to have 10 logs file in error (AMQERR01,02,....10) , I am using MQ version 8
As per knowledge center , for crtmqm command , it says we can change number of logs files after creating the queue manager.
But it does not mention how to do that. Do I have to change qm.ini file below values , I tried changing values but it is not relfecting when I am starting the queue manager. Please suggest what I am doing wrong.
original values in qm.ini
LogPrimaryFiles=3
LogSecondaryFiles=2
changed to
LogPrimaryFiles=13
LogSecondaryFiles=12
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKSJ_8.0.0/com.ibm.mq.ref.adm.doc/q083120_.htm
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 5:04 am Post subject: Re: How to increase MQ error log file after creating qmanage |
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| amitjain wrote: |
I want to have 10 logs file in error (AMQERR01,02,....10) , I am using MQ version 8
As per knowledge center , for crtmqm command , it says we can change number of logs files after creating the queue manager. |
When is a log not a log? When it's a log.
The logs that you set on the crtmqm command (and indeed by hacking around the qm.ini file) are transaction logs, i.e. the space used for messages under a unit of work (and other things). What you're talking about are error logs and you get 3 of those. No options.
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| Please suggest what I am doing wrong. |
Aside from some quite understandable confusion over terms, the key thing you're doing wrong is thinking you want 10 error log files. Why would you want this? If the reason is "I get so many error messages the 3 logs keep filling and rolling over", you don't want more log you want fewer errors, and should start fixing whatever's generating them!
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| amitjain |
| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 7:06 am Post subject: |
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Thanks. Now I understand what I misunderstood by linear logging and circualar logging.
Is there no way to increase AMQERR log files. One requirement in my project says they want to keep AMQERR log files for audit purpose to check AMQ8077 : Entity 'XXXX ' has insufficient authority to access object.
Should I periodically take copies of AMQERR files and keep it seperately for audit purpose ? |
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| Gaya3 |
| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 7:20 am Post subject: |
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if it is linear log you can get the support pac from IBM for cleaning up the logs
if it is circular you dont need have to do
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| bruce2359 |
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| amitjain wrote: |
Thanks. Now I understand what I misunderstood by linear logging and circualar logging.
Is there no way to increase AMQERR log files. One requirement in my project says they want to keep AMQERR log files for audit purpose to check AMQ8077 : Entity 'XXXX ' has insufficient authority to access object.
Should I periodically take copies of AMQERR files and keep it seperately for audit purpose ? |
Well, yes, if that's the requirement.
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| exerk |
| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 8:01 am Post subject: |
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| Gaya3 wrote: |
if it is linear log you can get the support pac from IBM for cleaning up the logs
if it is circular you dont need have to do |
If it's for audit purposes of trapping "...AMQ8077 : Entity 'XXXX ' has insufficient authority to access object..." then those will not be the logs you're looking for...
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| fjb_saper |
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| amitjain wrote: |
Thanks. Now I understand what I misunderstood by linear logging and circualar logging.
Is there no way to increase AMQERR log files. One requirement in my project says they want to keep AMQERR log files for audit purpose to check AMQ8077 : Entity 'XXXX ' has insufficient authority to access object.
Should I periodically take copies of AMQERR files and keep it seperately for audit purpose ? |
hope this will help http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKSJ_8.0.0/com.ibm.mq.con.doc/q019020_.htm?lang=en
And yes you need to make copies every so often... i.e. when the files rotate.
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To be honest, I never need to do this, but why not trying just increasing the number of secondary log files?
Secondary log files are only created when needed, so you won't suddenly see an increase in the number of files.
Best thing is to set the log file page size much bigger when creating the queue manager.
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| zpat wrote: |
To be honest, I never need to do this, but why not trying just increasing the number of secondary log files?
Secondary log files are only created when needed, so you won't suddenly see an increase in the number of files.
Best thing is to set the log file page size much bigger when creating the queue manager. |
If it's for audit purposes of trapping "...AMQ8077 : Entity 'XXXX ' has insufficient authority to access object..." then those will not be the logs you're looking for...
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| fjb_saper |
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| zpat wrote: |
To be honest, I never need to do this, but why not trying just increasing the number of secondary log files?
Secondary log files are only created when needed, so you won't suddenly see an increase in the number of files.
Best thing is to set the log file page size much bigger when creating the queue manager. |
You're missing the point. This has nothing to do with primary or secondary log files. The OP is talking about the ERROR files AMQERRXXX.LOG... 
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| Vitor |
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| amitjain wrote: |
| Is there no way to increase AMQERR log files. |
No.
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| One requirement in my project says they want to keep AMQERR log files for audit purpose to check AMQ8077 : Entity 'XXXX ' has insufficient authority to access object. |
This is a classic example of the Project quoting a technical solution rather than a business requirement. The requirement is not to keep endless numbers of logs but to audit unauthorised access attemtps. So:
a) you'll have problems using the error logs like this, and can't increase the number, so you'll need to detect when they're about to roll over so you can preserve them
b) you should meet this requirement with the supplied authority events that are intended by the product to be used for this purpose.
A little more development to use them (unless your site has a 3rd party audit tool already that can handle this) but much better and more feature rich. You can (as a single example) not only log events as you could with the error files, you can build alert systems to notify you that an attempt has been made.
But you'd need a little developement to copy the error logs before they rolled over. And to weed out the messages you're interested in.
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| Vitor wrote: |
b) you should meet this requirement with the supplied authority events that are intended by the product to be used for this purpose. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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OK, you can make the three error logs bigger in size though.
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| amitjain |
| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 6:11 am Post subject: |
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Hi Vitor,
Thanks for suggesting best practices for capturing authority events.
I am planning to do following things.
1) Enable authority events for queue manager
/app/mqm/bin/runmqsc TEST_QM
display QMGR ALL
ALTER QMGR AUTHOREV(ENABLED)
end
2)Enable application to consume messages SYSTEM.ADMIN.QMGR.EVENT
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| amitjain |
| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 6:38 am Post subject: |
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| I am able to see the event queue in MQExplorer and when I browse the message , in data it shows $ symbol only. In forum I read we need to read it using some support pac MH05. |
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