WA1367 WebSphere MQ Clusters Administration and Design Training and Courseware

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This three day course teaches experienced WMQ Administrator how to design, setup and maintain WMQ Clusters

Topics
	WMQ Clusters - Basic Administration Advanced Administration Tasks Problem Determination WMQ Clusters - Workload Balancing Designing WMQ Clusters WMQ Clusters and Security

What you will learn
	Upon the completion of this course, the student should be able to: design and set up WebSphere MQ Clusters define and manage Cluster Queues and Channels, Cluster Gateways learn problem determination techniques.

Audience
	WMQ System administrators who are familiar with the basic WMQ administration tasks but need to learn how to work in WMQ Cluster environment.

Prerequisites
	Previous experience in System Administration Basic knowledge of WMQ Administration (WMQ Administration course or equivalent experience)

Duration
	Three days.

Course Outline

Unit 1 - Introduction and Overview
	Introduction and Overview – Objective WMQ Clusters - What is it? MQSeries Clusters - Terminology WMQ Clusters Support Simple Cluster Client/Server View Peer to Peer View Multiple Repositories Workload Balancing Workload Re-routing WMQ Clusters – Benefits

Unit 2 - WMQ Clusters - Basic Administration
	WMQ Clusters – Basic Administration Clusters – System Objects - Cluster definitions - Required Objects Clusters – Queue Manager Attributes Clusters – System Objects Summary WMQ Clusters – Sample Simple Cluster Clusters – Sample Definitions Clusters – Setup Clusters – MQSC Commands DISPLAY CLUSQMGR SUSPEND QMGR RESUME QMGR REFRESH CLUSTER Other MQSC Cluster Commands ALTER QMGR DEFINE QUEUE DISPLAY QCLUSTER DEFINE CHANNEL WMQ Clusters – Basic Administration Labs Contents 2

Unit 3 - WMQ Clusters – Problem Determination
	WMQ Clusters – Problem Determination WMQ Clusters PD – Source of Information runmqsc – DIS CLUSQMGR - I runmqsc – DIS CLUSQMGR - II runmqsc – DIS QCLUSTER - I runmqsc – DIS QCLUSTER II PD Information – Windows WMQ Explorer Display information for existing cluster Sample Explorer Display PD Information – Error logs Part I Sample Information in Error Log File PD Information – Error logs Part II Sample FFST File PD Information – Cluster Repository PD Information – Repository Contents Display Cluster Repository Information Display Cluster Information – MS0G Sample dumprepos Output Display Cluster Information – amqrfdm amqrfdm – Initial Menu amqrfdm – Usage amqrfdm – Sample Response file Sample amqrfdm Output amqrfdm – Filters and Selectors - I Common Cluster Related Problems PD – Channel related problems - Setup Scenario Channel in “Retry State” CLUSQMGR names starting with “SYSTEM.TEMP…” Correct Setup PD – Queue related problems Queue Alias access problems Inconsistent instances of a queue definition PD – Queue Manager related problems - Cluster Queue Manager problems CLUSQMGR names different than CONNAME Duplicate QMGR names in the cluster Communication PD – IBM Technote PD – IBM Technote Sample WMQ Clusters – PD Labs

Unit 4 - WMQ Clusters – Advanced Administration
	WMQ Clusters – Advanced Administration - Objectives WMQ Clusters – Advanced Administration Sample Definitions Add a Cluster Queue Add a Cluster Queue - Considerations - 1 Add a Cluster Queue - Considerations - 2 Contents 3 Add a Cluster Queue - Considerations - 3 Add a Cluster QMGR Add a Cluster QMGR - Steps Add a Cluster QMGR - QM4 - Sample Set Up Remove a Cluster Queue Remove a Cluster Queue - Considerations - 1 Remove a Cluster Queue - Considerations - 2 Remove a Cluster Qmgr Remove a Cluster Qmgr - Considerations - 1 Add a Full Repository Add a Full Repository - Set up steps Relocate a Repository Relocate a Repository - Set up steps - part 1 Relocate a Repository - Set up steps - part 2 Relocate a Repository - Set up steps - part 3 Relocate a Repository - Manually defined CLUSSDR channels - BEFORE Relocate a Repository - Manually defined CLUSSDR channels - AFTER Overlapping Clusters Overlapping Clusters - Set up steps – part 1 Overlapping Clusters - Set up steps – part 2 Overlapping Clusters - Set up steps – part 3 Overlapping Clusters - Why overlapping clusters? Joining Clusters Cluster Gateways - A cluster can have a Gateway Cluster Gateways Cluster Gateways - Implementing gateway FROM a cluster – 1 Cluster Gateways - Implementing gateway FROM a cluster – 2 Cluster Gateways - Implementing gateway INTO a cluster - no workload balancing Cluster Gateways - Implementing gateway INTO a cluster with workload balancing A Complete Rebuild Advanced Admin Labs

Unit 5 - WMQ Clusters - Workload Balancing
	WMQ Clusters – Workload Balancing Multiple Queue Instances MQOPEN Options (MQOO) for workload balancing attributes QUEUE workload balancing attributes Queue workload balancing attributes - Version 6 QUEUE MANAGER workload balancing attributes Queue Manager workload balancing attributes - Version 6 Cluster Channel workload balancing attributes Cluster Channel workload balancing attributes - Version 6 Workload balancing attributes - summary Sample Workload Exit Local Queue Instances (V5) Local Queue Instances (V6) V5 Default Selection V6 Default Selection - WLM Route Selection - part 1 V6 Default Selection - WLM Route Selection - part 2 Use of Workload Balancing / Considerations Workload Distribution Scalability – Adding New Queues / Server Contents 4 Continuous Operations Message Affinities Message Affinities – Multiple Queue Instances WMQ Clusters - Workload Balancing Labs

Unit 6 - WMQ Clusters – Designing Cluster Networks
	WMQ Clusters – Designing Cluster networks WMQ Cluster Design – Selecting Full Repositories WMQ Cluster Design – Typical Repository View WMQ Cluster Design – Selecting Full Repositories - How many Full Repositories for a cluster? WMQ Cluster Design – Selecting Full Repositories - Which QMGRs should hold them? WMQ Cluster Design – Selecting Full Repositories - What should be the physical location? Selecting Full Repositories – Large Clusters Reducing Large Cluster Overhead Partially Inter-connected Repositories Splitting up a large cluster – Before Splitting up a large cluster – After (1) Splitting up a large cluster – After (2) Splitting up a large cluster – Gateway Setup Choosing an Initial Full Repository High Availability – Standby Configuration Standby Configuration - Failover HA Clustering + WMQ Clusters Comparison of Technologies WMQ Clusters – Naming Convention Naming Convention – Multiple CLUSRCVR Channels WMQ Clusters – Design Labs

Unit 7 - WMQ Clusters and Security
	WMQ Clusters and Security – Objectives WMQ Clusters and Security – Considerations and Risks Preventing an unauthorized queue manager access to your queue manager Preventing an unauthorized queue manager access to your queues Which applications on your queue manager can send messages to remote queues Prevent your queue manager from joining an unauthorized cluster qmgr Force unwanted queue manager out of the cluster WMQ Security – Message Channel Exits Writing WMQ Message Channel Exits WMQ Security – Using SSL WMQ Clusters and Security Labs

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