Intended Audience:

This course is designed for MQSeries system administrators working in a distributed environment (primarily UNIX, Windows, AS400).

Prerequisites:

You must be familiar with operating system commands, and a basic understanding of MQSeries. Knowledge of databases or network management is also desirable.

Course Content:

I. Middleware Introduction

• Role of middleware in today’s IT world

• Types of middleware and characteristics

II. IBM’s MQSeries Architecture

• Components of MQSeries

• Distributed MQSeries intercommunication

• WebSphere MQ and e-Business integration

III. IBM MQSeries Concepts

• Message structure

• Queue managers

• Queues (Local, Remote, Model, Alias)

• Channels

• Processes

• System default objects

IV. Installing MQSeries

• Log Files placement

• Install path location

• Mqs.ini and the NT registry

• Authority configuration

• Exercise 1 (Install MQSeries)

V. Distributed Queuing

• Using sample programs

• Using saveqmgr.exe

• Creating and saving MQSC scripts

• Network security setup

• MCA setup/configuration

• Performance tuning

• Exercise 2 (Create Queue Manager)

• Exercise 3 (Create server-to-server channels – troubleshoot failures)

VI. Advanced Topics

• Triggering applications

• Triggering channels

• Coordination with databases

• Distributed Security

• Group and segmentation

• Using report options

• Using the Dead Letter Queue Monitor.

• Remote management using the MQSeries Explorer MMC snap-in.

• Exercise 4 (Triggering a program, and a channel agent).

• Exercise 5 (Tracking messages when things go wrong)

VII. Clustering

• MQSeries clustering concepts

• Components

• Creating a cluster

• Adding a queue manager to the cluster

• Full repository versus partial repository

• Managing cluster load balancing

• Exercise 6 (Create an MQSeries cluster – test load balancing and failover)

VIII. Clients and Advanced Topics

• MQ Client access (SVRCONN)

• MQ Integrator

• MQ workflow

• MQ Everyplace

• WebSphere Application Server and e-business application integration

• Third party tools for securing and monitoring MQSeries networks.

• Exercise 7 (Setup client access channels)