WebSphere MQ Designing and Architecting Clustering Solutions

Course Overview

This course will teach you how to design and build both simple and sophisticated clusters, manage clusters and diagnose clustering problems. The extensive exercises are on Windows.

Audience

The audience should include those responsible for design and administration of WebSphere MQ Solutions that include MQ clusters.

This would be system designers and administrators. Although there will be a discussion of the cluster workload exit, no programming will be required in class. A basic knowledge of queue manager clustering is desired as this will only be briefly reviewed

Skills Gained

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Explain the basic concept of an MQ cluster and set up a simple cluster
• Make use of various administrative commandsto manage an MQ cluster, including removing queue managers froma cluster temporarily and permanently
• Describe problems that may be encountered with MQ clusters and the tools (including their use) to isolate those problems
• Explain the concept of workload management
• Define marooned messages and discuss alternatives for handing them
• describe sercurity, recovery and failover considerations nessessary when designing a cluster, as well as disaster planning and testing
• Implement a complex MQ cluster including more than three queue manager
• List the design considerations when considering an MQ clustering solution, including discussion of using multiple overlapping clusters and techniques for dividing very large organizations of systems
• Incorporate WebSphere MQ queue managers that are not part of a cluster into the cluster and also, attach non-cluster queue managers (including security considerations when using a gateway approach)
• describe cluster workload exits and explain what the sample accomplishes

Prerequisites

• MQ01 - A Technical Introduction to MQSeries
• MQ20 - MQSeries for OS/390 System Administration. or
• MQ15 - WebSphere MQ Administration for Distributed Systems
• In addition, attendees will benefit most if they have read the Queue Manager Clusters manual and at a minimum, created a simple cluster

Course Outline

• Overview of MQ clustering including building a simple cluster for review
• MQ cluster administration and maintenance - using commands available
• Definitions required (including explanations of various options)- queue managers, channel, repositories, namelists, queues
• Designing MQ clusters - topologies, repositoties, recovery, security
• Marooned messages, how to handle
• Advance design considerations for MQ clusters
• Incorporating queue managers into an exsiting MQ cluster
• Channel Exit considerations (including data conversion and security exits)
• Sercurity considerations when implementing and managing an MQ cluster

WebSphere MQ Designing and Architecting Clustering Solutions / MQ251A (MQ251AGB)