IBM WebSphere MQ V9 System Administration (using Linux for labs)

During the accelerated, 3-day official IBM course, participants will learn how to install, configure, operate, configure basic security, monitor and optimize IBM WebSphere MQ v9 in a Linux environment.

The course covers the following skills

• IBM MQ implementation planning
• IBM MQ installation
• Perform basic customizations and administration tasks
• Queue manager Communication setup
• Management and monitoring of trigger messages
• Queue manager rebranding and resetting procedures
• Troubleshooting the causes of problems
• Using basic IBM MQ security settings
• Monitoring IBM MQ activities
• Using IBM MQ sample programs e.g. queue manager for testing, queue, channel and client configuration

The training is recommended for IT professionals with previous Linux operation knowledge, who will be responsible for providing and integrating a communication middle-layer platform between different systems and components in a Linux environment (the training does not support z/OS and Series i platforms). The Windows-based exercises version of the training is WM153G, IBM WebSphere MQ V9 System Administration (using Windows for labs)

• Introduction, using the lab environment
• IBM MQ Overview
• Installing IBM MQ
• Setting up a basic configuration
• Using commands to create queue manager and queue
• Introduction to IBM MQ Explorer, creating queue manager and queue
• Introduction to the Message Queue Interface (MQI)
• Using IBM MQ sample programs to test configuration
• Implementing trigger messages and trigger monitor
• Message persistence and reset, using media image to reset queue
• Problem and error detection, using MQ Trace
• Implementing distributed queue
• Basic security settings, access control to MQ
• Managing IBM MQ clients
• Saving and restoring IBM MQ object definitions
• IBM MQ performance monitoring and configuration
• JMS administration overview
• Summary, Q&A

Knowledge of IBM MQ concepts, Linux operation and networking basics.