Designing and Implementing and Managing IBM MQ V9 Clusters [TDS_WM253G]

OVERVIEW

This course prepares you to plan, design, configure, and administer IBM MQ clusters.

After a review of IBM MQ, the course explains the similarities and differences between administration of a cluster and administration of a distributed message IBM MQ environment. You learn cluster specific commands and procedures, and explore the role of a cluster in a highly available IBM MQ infrastructure. You learn how to do a detailed verification of a new cluster configuration, review and identify all resulting components, and troubleshoot problems.

You also learn about cluster administration, workload balancing, security, and use of publish/subscribe clusters. You learn how to recognize when a problem is due to connection authentication, channel authentication, or object authorizations. You also learn about design options such as overlapping clusters and use of clusters with z/OS queue sharing groups. Many of the considerations in this course are based on actual engagement experiences.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

OBJECTIVES

• Describe the basic IBM MQ components
• Identify which IBM MQ objects are used to impact routing in a cluster environment
• Identify who in your organization can impact the health of a cluster and the need for adequate communication
• Describe the correct role of a cluster in a highly available IBM MQ infrastructure
• Describe the differences and similarities between administering clustered and non-clustered IBM MQ environments
• Describe how to configure, verify, and troubleshoot an IBM MQ cluster
• Identify the various channels that are present in a cluster environment and how each is created
• Describe how to use separate transmission queues in a clustered queue manager
• Explain how to remove a queue manager from a cluster on a permanent or temporary basis
• Explain IBM MQ connection authentication
• Explain IBM MQ channel authentication
• Describe IBM MQ object authorizations
• Explain how to troubleshoot security challenges in a cluster
• List ways to influence workload balancing in a cluster
• Describe the history and basic components of IBM MQ publish/subscribe
• Explain the considerations and details of implementing publish/subscribe in an IBM MQ clustered environment
• Describe cluster design architectural considerations
• Summarize the benefits of design and configuration simplicity in a cluster implementation
• Explain how to configure overlapping clusters

AUDIENCE

This course is designed for IBM MQ administrators, architects, application developers, and other professionals who need to understand the design considerations, architectural role, and implementation of IBM MQ clusters

CONTENT

Course introductionIBM MQ baselineExercise: Configuring and reviewing base IBM MQ resourcesBefore you startUnderstanding and implementing an IBM MQ clusterExercise: Implementing and verifying a cluster, cluster queues, and a cluster gatewayCluster administration tasks and commandsExercise: Working with cluster administration tasksIBM MQ security and clustersExercise: Working with IBM MQ securityInfluencing workload balancing behaviorExercise: Working with workload balancing optionsPublish/subscribe and clustersExercise: Configuring a publish/subscribe clusterCluster design considerationsExercise: Configuring an overlapping clusterCourse summary