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Monitor IBM MQ8 Events With MQ Gate
Insider Technologies
DanImagine all of these IBM MQ 8 EMS events occurring on your NonStop systems.
Which one is alerting dead-letter queue full. Which one is alerting queue depth limit reached. How can you identify the issue that is putting your mission critical processes at risk?
They all look the same, right?
Within Reflex Console (below), the structure of the events are better presented. From here, you can see that ALL MQ events contain the same SSID, Event Number and Subject tokens.
All meaningful data is presented in large text buffers. Pretty difficult for the Business to distinguish important events.
Reflex Console
Monitoring MQ Events
- How do you decide which ones require investigation
- How do you decide which MQ event to escalate
The same event (SSID / Event Number) occurs for all your MQ Managers, Queues and Channels. Not very user friendly.
If something critical does occur, it can be difficult to identify, e.g. dead-letter queue full; queue depth limit reached; channel has stopped; queue not serviced within a specified time.
MQ Gate
To avoid the risk of ever missing those important MQ events, MQ Gate from Insider Technologies, takes these IBM MQ events and generates alternatives:
- Unique Event Numbers
- created from the ‘AMQnnnn’ number in the text buffer
- Unique Subject Tokens, e.g. Channel Name
- extracted from the text buffer
- Unique Manager Tokens, i.e. the MQ Manager Name
- extracted from the text buffer
Result:
- Much easier to view, escalate and manage.
- No longer are you at risk of missing important events.
MQ EVENT ESCALATION
Using MQ Gate, you can identify the important MQ events that are critical to your business.
If no escalation or graphical monitoring solution exists, then Insider’s NonStop complimentary systems monitoring product – REFLEX – provides a single pane of glass solution for all your NonStop systems, including IBM MQ.
The newly parsed MQ Gate events are received by individual Managers, Queues and Channels, where colour coded state changes occur for exception conditions.
As with other Reflex monitored subsystems, details on the MQ component can be obtained.
https://www.insidertech.co.uk/products/mq-gate