IBM WebSphere MQ V7 Advanced System
Administration (Distributed)
WM210 (classroom)
VM210 (online)
Course Abstract
Course description
This course is designed to teach some of the advanced skills required by system programmers and administrators of IBM
WebSphere MQ V7 on distributed platforms. It expands the basic skills developed in course WM100/VM100, Technical
Introduction to IBM WebSphere MQ, and the IBM WebSphere MQ V7 System Administration courses (WM201/VM201 for
Windows, WM202/VM202 for AIX, and WM203/VM203 for Solaris).
This course focuses on advanced features and facilities of WebSphere MQ V7 such as clustering and security, emphasizing the
administration of workload balancing using clustering and using SSL to secure channels. Additional topics include channel exit
programming, statistic and accounting facilities, advanced client features, and publish/subscribe administration with IBM
WebSphere MQ for z/OS V7.
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General information
Delivery method:
Classroom or instructor-led online (ILO)
Audience:
This course is designed for technical professionals who require advanced administrator skills for
WebSphere MQ on distributed platforms, or who provide support to others who perform such tasks.
This course is based on WebSphere MQ V7 but is also appropriate for students who support prior
versions of WebSphere MQ.
Learning objectives:
After completing this course, students should be able to:
 Describe and use the advanced features of the Eclipse-based WebSphere MQ configuration
tools (also known as MQ Explorer) to configure and administer queue managers on distributed
platforms
 Explain the use of the available channel exits and how to activate these exits
 Design the use of message channel exits to enhance security or perform specialized translations
of message data
 Explain the use of TLS/SSL for securing TCP/IP channels
 Set up appropriate security definitions and the WebSphere MQ objects to which they refer
 Describe and employ accepted security best practices
 Design and employ advanced workload management using clusters of queue managers
 Describe and employ advanced client connection facilities such as conversation sharing, readahead, and asynchronous put
 Explain the use of the statistics and accounting facilities provided with WebSphere MQ in order
to optimize the use of system resources
 Describe and administer distributed publish/subscribe networks including publish/subscribe
clustering and hierarchical networks
Prerequisites:
Before taking this course, students should have:
 A working knowledge of WebSphere MQ V7 administration processes and procedures
 The skills necessary to perform basic WebSphere MQ V7 administration tasks in a distributed
environment, which can be obtained through practical experience or by successfully completing
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one of the IBM WebSphere MQ V7 System Administration courses (WM201/VM201 for
Windows, WM202/VM202 for AIX, or WM203/VM203 for Solaris)
In addition, experience working with WebSphere MQ V7 is beneficial.
Duration:
3 days
Skill level:
Advanced
Notes
The unit and exercise durations listed below are estimates, and may not reflect every class experience. If the course is
customized or abbreviated, the duration of unchanged units will probably increase.
Course agenda
Course introduction
Duration: 30 minutes
Unit 1. IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer advanced usage
Duration: 1 hour
Learning objectives:
After completing this unit, students should be able to:
 Demonstrate how to create and manage queue manager sets
 Configure WebSphere MQ for publish/subscribe
 Use MQ Explorer for remote queue manager administration
 Map between JMS and WebSphere MQ objects
 Configure authority and SSL attributes for the queue manager and WebSphere MQ
objects
 Use extension points to expand MQ Explorer capabilities
Exercise 1. IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives:
After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
 Set properties and preferences for MQ Explorer
 Connect to and administer a remote queue manager
 Grant object and queue manager authorities
 Use utilities to administer a JNDI namespace to configure MQ as a JMS provider
 Create and configure JMS objects
 Create queue manager sets
 Import plug-ins to extend administrative capabilities
Unit 2. IBM WebSphere MQ channel exits and data conversion
Duration: 1 hour
Learning objectives:
After completing this unit, students should be able to:
 Explain the use of the various channel exits
 Activate exit code provided by a third party and apply minor modifications
 Describe how data conversion is performed when applications with unlike data
representation communicate via WebSphere MQ
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 Describe and make use of the sample code and the crtmqcvx command provided by
WebSphere MQ
Exercise 2. Using channel exit programs
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives:
After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
 Explain where an exit module needs to be located for use in data conversion
 Demonstrate how to configure the appropriate definitions when using channel exits
Unit 3. Securing IBM WebSphere MQ channels using SSL
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives:
After completing this unit, students should be able to:
 Describe the certificate infrastructure supported in WebSphere MQ V7
 Describe the rules governing the use of SSLPEER
 Explain WebSphere MQ support of CRLs to validate currency of certificates
 Describe cipher specs and their support in WebSphere MQ
 Employ TLS/SSL to secure WebSphere MQ channel communications
Exercise 3. Securing IBM WebSphere MQ channels
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives:
After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
 Create a WebSphere MQ certificate store and add certificates to the store
 Secure channels by specifying TLS/SSL attributes on the channel
 Trace the channel message flow to verify secure communications
Unit 4. Security best practices
Duration: 1 hour
Learning objectives:
After completing this unit, students should be able to:
 Explain the need to restrict access to the administration group, such as mqm
 Explain the need to restrict remote administrative authority using
SYSTEM.ADMIN.SVRCONN channels on production-level (restricted-access)
systems
 Explain methods of providing non-administrative users limited access to administrative
resources
Unit 5. Cluster workload balancing
Duration: 1 hour
Learning objectives:
After completing this unit, students should be able to:
 Explain the need for workload balancing
 Identify object attributes that influence workload balancing
 List commands that specify workload balancing properties
 Describe the cluster workload balancing algorithm
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Exercise 4. Using clustering to manage workloads
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives:
After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
 Use channel and queue attributes in combinations to alter the workload distribution in a
cluster
 Identify and use channel and queue attributes to balance workload
Unit 6. Advanced client concepts
Duration: 1 hour
Learning objectives:
After completing this unit, students should be able to:
 Explain the new features of WebSphere MQ V7 clients, including full duplex MQI
channels, conversation sharing, read-ahead, and asynchronous put
Exercise 5. Configuring advanced clients
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives:
After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
 Demonstrate the new conversation sharing feature of WebSphere MQ V7
 Demonstrate the new read-ahead feature of WebSphere MQ V7
Unit 7. Accounting and statistics
Duration: 1 hour
Learning objectives:
After completing this unit, students should be able to:
 Describe the statistics and accounting data provided by WebSphere MQ
 Explain ways of viewing and reporting the accounting and statistical data
 Relate the data obtained to possible system performance benefits
Exercise 6. Working with statistics
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives:
After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
 Enable accounting and statistics collection in WebSphere MQ
 Employ the MS0P SupportPac to view accounting and statistics
Unit 8. Distributed publish/subscribe
Duration: 1 hour
Learning objectives:
After completing this unit, students should be able to:
 Describe publish/subscribe in WebSphere MQ V7
 Explain distributed publish/subscribe approaches, including publish/subscribe clusters
and hierarchies
 Perform publish/subscribe administrative tasks
 Migrate from WebSphere MQ V6 publish/subscribe to V7 publish/subscribe
 Describe the manual subscriber alternative
 Compare publish/subscribe approaches
 Apply recommended publish/subscribe practices
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Exercise 7. Distributed publish/subscribe
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives:
After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
 Define a publish/subscribe cluster
 Define subscribers in the cluster
 Publish messages into the cluster and observe subscribers receiving these messages
 Define a publish/subscribe hierarchy
 Describe how proxy subscriptions flow in distributed publish/subscribe networks
Unit 9. Course summary
Duration: 20 minutes
Learning objectives:
After completing this unit, students should be able to:
 Explain how the course met its learning objectives
 Submit an evaluation of the class
 Identify other WebSphere Education courses related to this topic
 Access the WebSphere Education Web site
 Locate appropriate resources for further study
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