IBM WM253G - Designing, Implementing, and Managing IBM MQ V9 Clusters

Key topicsCourse introduction: IBM MQ baseline Exercise: Configuring and reviewing base IBM MQ resources Before you start Understanding and implementing an IBM MQ cluster Exercise: Implementing and verifying a cluster, cluster queues, and a cluster gateway Cluster administration tasks and commands Exercise: Working with cluster administration tasks IBM MQ security and clusters Exercise: Working with IBM MQ security Influencing workload balancing behavior Exercise: Working with workload balancing options Publish/subscribe and clusters Exercise: Configuring a publish/subscribe cluster Cluster design considerations Exercise: Configuring an overlapping cluster Course summaryObjectivesDescribe the basic IBM MQ componentsIdentify which IBM MQ objects are used to impact routing in a cluster environmentIdentify who in your organization can impact the health of a cluster and the need for adequate communicationDescribe the correct role of a cluster in a highly available IBM MQ infrastructureDescribe the differences and similarities between administering clustered and non-clustered IBM MQ environmentsDescribe how to configure, verify, and troubleshoot an IBM MQ clusterIdentify the various channels that are present in a cluster environment and how each is createdDescribe how to use separate transmission queues in a clustered queue managerExplain how to remove a queue manager from a cluster on a permanent or temporary basisExplain IBM MQ connection authenticationExplain IBM MQ channel authenticationDescribe IBM MQ object authorizationsExplain how to troubleshoot security challenges in a clusterList ways to influence workload balancing in a clusterDescribe the history and basic components of IBM MQ publish/subscribeExplain the considerations and details of implementing publish/subscribe in an IBM MQ clustered environmentDescribe cluster design architectural considerationsSummarize the benefits of design and configuration simplicity in a cluster implementationExplain how to configure overlapping clusters