IBM MQ Appliance 9.4: Administration
- Course Code WM605G
- Duration 3 days
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Public Classroom
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Virtual Learning
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Course Overview
TopThis course teaches you how to setup, customize, operate, administer, and monitor the IBM MQ Appliance.
The course covers initial configuration and setup, administration using the command line interface and web console, security, high availability, disaster recovery, backup/restore, and monitoring,
In addition to the instructor-led lectures, the hands-on exercises provide practical experience using a virtual MQ Appliance across the all of the topics.
Course Schedule
TopTarget Audience
TopThis course is intended for MQ Administrators.
Course Objectives
TopAt 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
Course Content
TopDay 1 Introductions, 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
Further Information
TopOfficial course book provided to participants.