About this course
Course Overview
This course teaches you how to customize, operate, administer, and monitor IBM MQ on-premises on distributed operating systems. The course covers configuration, day-to-day administration, problem recovery, security management, and performance monitoring. In addition to the instructor-led lectures, the hands-on exercises provide practical experience with distributed queuing, working with MQ clients, and implementing clusters, publish/subscribe messaging. You also learn how to implement authorization, authentication, and encryption, and you learn how to monitor performance.
Note: This course does not cover any of the features of MQ for z/OS or MQ for IBM i.
Target Audience
This course is designed for technical professionals who require the skills to administer IBM MQ.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Describe the IBM MQ deployment options
- Create and manage queue managers, queues, and channels
- Use the IBM MQ sample programs and utilities to test the IBM MQ network
- Configure distributed queuing
- Configure MQ client connections to a queue manager
- Define and administer a queue manager cluster
- Administer Java Message Service (JMS) in MQ
- Implement basic queue manager restart and recovery procedures
- Use IBM MQ troubleshooting tools to identify the cause of a problem in the IBM MQ network
- Manage IBM MQ security
- Monitor the activities and performance of an IBM MQ system
Course Content
Introducing IBM MQ
Exercise: Getting started with IBM MQ
Working with IBM MQ administration tools
Exercise: Working with IBM MQ administration tools
Configuring distributed queuing
Exercise: Implementing distributed queuing
Managing clients and client connections
Exercise: Connecting an IBM MQ client
Advanced IBM MQ client features
Working with queue manager clusters
Exercise: Implementing a basic cluster
Publish/subscribe messaging
Exercise: Configuring publish/subscribe message queuing
Implementing basic security in IBM MQ
Exercise: Controlling access to IBM MQ
Securing IBM MQ channels with TLS
Exercise: Securing channels with TLS
Authenticating channels and connections
Exercise: Implementing connection authentication
Supporting JMS with IBM MQ
Diagnosing problems
Exercise: Running an IBM MQ trace
Backing up and restoring IBM MQ messages and object definitions
Exercise: Using a media image to restore a queue
Exercise: Backing up and restoring IBM MQ object definitions
High availability
Monitoring and configuring IBM MQ for performance
Exercise: Monitoring IBM MQ for performance
Exercise: Monitoring resources with the IBM MQ Console
Course Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of IBM MQ concepts and features
- Some knowledge of TCP/IP configuration
- Basic experience with Windows 2016 system administration