Overview

This self-paced course with hands-on exercises is also available as classroom course IBM MQ V9.1 System Administration (WM156G).

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 recorded 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.

Audience

This course is designed for technical professionals who require the skills to administer IBM MQ.

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of IBM MQ concepts and features
• Some knowledge of TCP/IP configuration
• Basic experience with Windows 2016 system administration

Objective

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

Exercises

• Exercise 1: Getting started with IBM MQ
• Exercise 2: Working with IBM MQ administration tools
• Exercise 3: Implementing distributed queuing
• Exercise 4: Connecting an IBM MQ client
• Exercise 5: Implementing a basic cluster
• Exercise 6: Configuring publish/subscribe message queuing
• Exercise 7: Controlling access to IBM MQ
• Exercise 8: Securing channels with TLS
• Exercise 9: Implementing connection
• Exercise 10: Running an IBM MQ trace
• Exercise 11: Using a media image to restore a queue
• Exercise 12: Backing up and restoring IBM MQ object definitions
• Exercise 13: Monitoring IBM MQ for performance
• Exercise 14: Monitoring resources with the IBM MQ Console

Course Outline

• 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