IBM WM605G - MQ Appliance 9.4: Administration

Course Outline

Day 1Introductions, agenda review, previous experience and desired outcome

Presentation: Introducing the MQ Appliance.

• Introduce and explain the benefits of the MQ Appliance
• Different models, and the hardware characteristics
• Performance characteristics
• Administrative options

Lab: Introducing the MQ Appliance

• Initial setup of the appliance
• Creating a queue manager
• Connecting an application

Presentation: Explain the firmware and command line interface

• Similarities and differences with the MQ Appliance
• MQ Appliance firmware
• Command line interface
• Scripting the CLI
• Intelligent platform management interface (IPMI)

Lab: MQ Appliance command line

Presentation: MQ Appliance security

• MQ Security
• MQ Appliance Administrative security
• Encrypted disk
• Advanced Message Security (AMS)

Lab: Securing the MQ Appliance

• User access management on administrative interfaces
• Username/password configuration, including LDAP
• Creating and managing certificates
• Securing the CLI using certificates
• Securing MQ traffic using certificates

Day 2Presentation: Introduce High Availability and Disaster RecoveryUnderstanding the key three topologies:

• High availability (2 appliances)
• High availability with single disaster recovery appliance (2 + 1 appliances)
• High availability with resilient disaster recovery site (2 + 2 appliances)

Presentation: Network configuration

• Network devices on the appliance
• Configurations for HA and DR options
• Float IP address
• Link aggregation

Lab: configure two appliances for HA

Lab: configure two appliances for disaster recovery

Lab: configure two appliances for HA/DR

Day 3

Presentation: monitoring a MQ Appliance

• Monitoring the MQ Appliance
• Hardware monitoring
• Failed resources
• Queue Manager monitoring
• Logs
• Log targets

Lab: configuring monitoring of a MQ Appliance

Presentation: MQ firmware and upgrades

• Applying firmware updates
• Backing-up the MQ Appliance
• Restoring the MQ Appliance
• Reset to factory settings
• Considerations for HA & DR

Lab: Upgrading an MQ appliance

Objective

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Complete Initial setup of the appliance
• Create a queue manager
• Connect an application
• Explain the MQ Appliance command line
• Manage User access on administrative interfaces
• Create and manage certificates
• Secure the CLI using certificates
• Secure MQ traffic using certificates
• configure two appliances for HAconfigure two appliances for disaster recoveryconfigure two appliances for HA/DR
• Upgrade an MQ Appliance

Audience

Administrators