Introduction

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This section describes how to monitor IBM MQ messaging systems in SL1 using the IBM: MQ PowerPack.

The following sections provide an overview of IBM MQ and the IBM: MQ  PowerPack:

What is IBM MQ?

The IBM MQ is message-queing middleware that supports messaging between applications, systems, services, and files. An IBM MQ messaging system is made up of one or more queue managers that support asynchronous routing of messages between systems, with producing and consuming applications connected to different queue managers.

What Does the IBM: MQPowerPack Monitor?

To monitor IBM MQ messaging systems using SL1, you must install the IBM: MQ  PowerPack. This PowerPack enables you to discover, model, and collect data about IBM MQ messaging systems.

The IBM: MQ PowerPack includes:

  • Example credentials you can use as a template to create a PowerShell credential, a SOAP/XML credential, or an SSH/Key credential to connect to the IBM MQ messaging system you want to monitor

  • Dynamic Applications to discover, model, and monitor performance metrics and collect configuration data for IBM MQ messaging systems

  • Device classes for the IBM MQ components that the SL1 monitors
  • Event policies and corresponding alerts that are triggered when IBM MQ systems meet certain status criteria

Installing the IBM: MQ PowerPack

Before completing the steps in this section, you must import and install the latest version of the IBM: MQ  PowerPack.

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack overwrites all content from a previous version of that PowerPack that has already been installed on the target system. You can use the Enable Selective PowerPack Field Protection setting in the Behavior Settings page (System > Settings > Behavior) to prevent new PowerPacks from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields. For more information, see the section on Global Settings.

Ensure that you are running version 12.1.2 or later of SL1 before installing this PowerPack. For details on upgrading SL1, see the relevant SL1 Platform Release Notes.

To download and install the PowerPack:

  1. Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacks & SyncPacks) at the ScienceLogic Support Site.
  2. In SL1, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  3. Click the Actions button and choose Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack dialog box appears.
  4. Click [Browse] and navigate to the PowerPack file from step 1.
  5. Select the PowerPack file and click Import. The PowerPack Installer modal displays a list of the PowerPack contents.
  6. Click Install. The PowerPack is added to the PowerPacks page.

If you exit the PowerPack Installer modal without installing the imported PowerPack, the imported PowerPack will not appear in the PowerPacks page. However, the imported PowerPack will appear in the Imported PowerPacks modal. This page appears when you click the Actions menu and select Install PowerPack.