Version 100 of the IBM: MQ PowerPack monitors IBM MQ configuration and performance metrics.
- Minimum Required SL1 Version: 8.12.0
Before You Install
Ensure that you are running version 8.12.0 or later of SL1 before installing IBM: MQ version 100.
For details on upgrading SL1, see the appropriate Release Notes.
Installation Process
To install version 100 of the IBM: MQ PowerPack, perform the following steps:
By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack will overwrite all content in 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 the new version of the PowerPack from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields.
If you are currently using the Dynamic Applications in this PowerPack to monitor devices, collection errors might occur for one or two polling cycles during the installation of a new version. To prevent collection errors during an upgrade, you can optionally disable collection for monitored devices before performing the following steps and re-enable collection after the upgrade.
To install this PowerPack:
- Familiarize yourself with the Known Issues for this release.
- See the Before You Install or Upgrade section. If you have not done so already, upgrade your system to the 8.12.0 or later release.
- Download the IBM: MQ version 100PowerPack from the Support Site to a local computer.
- Go to the PowerPack Manager page (System > Manage > PowerPacks). Click the menu and choose Import PowerPack. When prompted, import IBM: MQ version 100.
- Click the button. For details on installing PowerPacks, see the chapter on Installing a PowerPack in the PowerPacks manual.
- Familiarize yourself with the Known Issues for this release.
See the manual Monitoring IBM MQ for instructions on using the new PowerPack.
Features
Version 100 of the IBM: MQ PowerPack includes the following features:
- Dynamic Applications to discover, model, and monitor performance metrics and collect configuration data for IBM MQ devices, including:
- IBM: MQ Channel Configuration
- IBM: MQ Cluster Channel Configuration
- IBM: MQ Cluster Channel Performance
- IBM: MQ Discovery
- IBM: MQ Error Log Configuration
- IBM: MQ Listener Configuration
- IBM: MQ Queue Configuration
- IBM: MQ Queue Discovery
- IBM: MQ Queue Manager Configuration
- IBM: MQ Queue Manager Discovery
- IBM: MQ Queue Performance
- Event Policies that are triggered when IBM MQ devices meet certain status criteria
- Example Credentials that you can use to connect to IBM MQ devices
- Device Classes for each of the IBM MQ components that the PowerPack can monitor
- IBM: MQ Server
- IBM: MQ QMGR
- IBM: MQ Partial-Repository QMGR
- IBM: MQ Full-Repository QMGR
- IBM: MQ Multi-Instance QMGR
- IBM: MQ Multi-Instance Full-Repo QMGR
- IBM: MQ Multi-Instance Partial-Repo QMGR
- IBM: MQ Local Queue
- IBM: MQ Cluster Queue
- IBM: MQ Dead-Letter Queue
- IBM: MQ Transmission Queue
- Two Device Dashboards that display information about Queues and Queue Managers.
Known Issues
The following known issues affect version 100 of the IBM: MQ PowerPack:
- For Windows users, in the "IBM: MQ Cluster Channel Configuration" Dynamic Application, when a channel is configured with a cluster and that cluster is deleted, the status for that cluster cannot be returned.
- For Windows users, in the "IBM: MQ Cluster Channel Configuration" Dynamic Application, the "CLUSSDRA" and "CLUSSDRB" are shown as "CLUSSDR".
- For Windows users, the "IBM: MQ Discovery" Dynamic Application currently does not return "Connections", "Parent Queue Manager", or "Start Date" metrics. On some MQ installations, SL1 may be unable to collect the "Standby Host" property.
- For Windows users, the "IBM: MQ Queue Manager Configuration" Dynamic Application currently does not return "Connections", "Parent Queue Manager", or "Start Date" metrics.