GUI for Unix based MQSeries 1

[Sudmill]

Hi is there a GUI for administering MQSeries 5.1 on either Solaris or AIX, as the documentation does not refer to any GUI and the NT explorer is for the NT platform only.

I know there is a Tivoli addin interface for this, but was wondering if there was something basic I have missed.


Cheers

John.

 

[pmeekin]

It depends what you mean. If you want a GUI that can be used to administer Solaris and AIX queue managers then yes - there are many. They mostly run on WindowsNT and use a client connection (or native TCP/IP) to connect to the Unix system. Support pac MO71 is a free one which is very good.

Alternatively, if you want an X-Windows GUI, the only one I have used is PQEdit which doesn't really let you do admin type functions.

Cheers,
Paul

 

[Sudmill]

Thanks alot .... I will have a look at this.
Can you suggest any others that are worth a look that run under NT to monitor other OS platforms running MQSeries ?

Cheers

John (Sudmill)

 

[pmeekin]

Well, it depends how much infrastructure you want to add on (or already have). QPasa! from MQ Software (Windows-only GUI) is fairly comprehensive for both administration and monitoring, as is MQ Patrol from Boole & Babbage (or have they been bought out now?) which provides Win and X GUIs. There are others as well but they generally involve installing agents on the same machines as your QMgrs. Candle Command Center (sic) is another one to look at.

The supportpac above is a relatively stand-alone (and free) solution although it's monitoring capabilities are fairly limited.

Of course if you already have an enterprise management system, such as Tivoli, you can use that with a fairly simple MQ monitor to provide a fuller solution.

In short, this is a very wide area and none of the products are perfect.

Cheers,
Paul

 

[emile]

Hi
You can use MQ explores to administer remote queue managers or tr support pack MO71, it is very good.

 

[Sudmill]

Thanks everyone for the assistance.

I have d/l the MO71 pack and will look at it asap.

Regarding Emile's response, I didnt think that you could administer non NT QM and Queues from NT's MQ Explorer.
Is Emile right, and if so are there any pitfalls Im likely to encounter (Im a relative new-comer to MQ) ?




Cheers

John (Sudmill)

 

[Sudmill]

Sorry to keep on about this, but can someone categorically state whether it is possible to administer non NT MQ QMGRs(e.g. a Solaris QMGR) via the NT MQ Explorer application?

I have tried and dont know how to set the permissions (setmqaut on which user name?) correctly on the UNIX side in order to allow the NT requests to be processed!
(having said that I dont even know where the Solaris error logs are kept!)

Brick wall .. meet head ....
Cheers

John (Sudmill)

 

[pmeekin]

Hi John.

Yes, it is possible to administer all except OS/390 queue managers using MQ Explorer. For non-local queue managers it just uses the standard MQ client connection (OS/390 is excluded because it doesn't support PCF by the way).

Problems? Just the usual - security. You need to connect using a userid which is a member of group mqm on any Unix system you want to control or the equivalent for AS/400. Note that unless you are using channel security exits, this userid will need to be the MCA userid on the client channel which means anone can connect with full authority!

Hope this helps ;-),
Paul

 

[francm]

The NT Explorer will also manage your unix based Qmgrs for you. There is setup detail in the help, but basically you need a SYSTEM.ADMIN.COMMAND.QUEUE queue and SYSTEM.ADMIN.SVRCONN server connection channel and security rights on the unix box. Francois van der Merwe