Training offering

IBM

IBM WebSphere MQ: Designing and Architecting Clustering Solutions

Information

Length: 1 Day
Course code: WM250GB
Price £1,800 before tax

Session dates

Date Location
  • 24/09/2012 London
    £1,800 before tax
This training is also available as onsite training.
Please contact us on
0870 251 1000 or email training@arrowecs.co.uk
for more information.

Description


This four-day, instructor-led course teaches the intermediate skills required by an administrator of an IBM WebSphere MQ clustered environment.

This course is essential for anyone responsible for the design and administration of WebSphere MQ solutions that include MQ clusters. Through lecture and labs, students learn how to set up simple clusters, design and set up a sophisticated cluster, manage clusters, perform full repository re-assignment, accomplish queue manager cluster removal, and use diagnostics to determine problems within an MQ cluster.

Objectives

After completing this course, students should be able to:
•    Explain the basic concepts of an MQ cluster
•    Set up a simple cluster
•    Use administrative commands to manage an MQ cluster
•    Describe problems that may be encountered with MQ clusters, as well as tools and techniques for isolating these problems
•    Explain the concepts of workload management
•    Define marooned messages and discuss alternatives for handling them
•    Describe security, recovery, and failover considerations necessary when designing a cluster, as well as disaster planning and testing
•    Implement a complex MQ cluster including more than three queue managers
•    List the design considerations for a WebSphere MQ clustering solution, including the use of multiple overlapping clusters and techniques for dividing very large organizations of systems
•    Define the process to incorporate non-cluster WebSphere MQ queue managers into a cluster, including security considerations when using a gateway approach
•    Describe cluster workload exits

Participants

This is an intermediate course for technical professionals who need clustering administrator skills for any of the WebSphere MQ products. While this course is based on WebSphere MQ V6, it is also appropriate for people who support prior versions of WebSphere MQ clusters on distributed platforms.

Prerequisite(s)

Before taking this course, students should have practical experience in working with IBM WebSphere MQ, and complete any one of the following courses (or have equivalent experience):
•    WebSphere MQ System Administration (Windows) (Course MQ151, WM151, or VM151)
•    WebSphere MQ System Administration (AIX) (Course MQ152, WM152, or VM152)
•    WebSphere MQ System Administration (Sun) (Course MQ155, WM155, or VM155)
•    WebSphere MQ System Administration for iSeries (Course MQ160)
•    WebSphere MQ for z/OS System Administration (Course MQ201)

Options

•    Overview of IBM WebSphere MQ clustering
•    WebSphere MQ cluster administration
•    WebSphere MQ cluster problem determination and resolution
•    Design considerations and operations
•    IBM WebSphere MQ clustering advanced design topics
•    z/OS IBM WebSphere MQ cluster