Roger has accepted my session proposals for MQTC. Do these sound useful?  I hope to see you there!

Using runmqsc and dmpmqcfg over TLS client

Using runmqsc and dmpmqcfg over client connections is essential for managing MQ in the cloud. Running them over TLS connections is even better.  Starting from scratch, this session walks through all the steps required to get runmqsc and dmpmqcfg talking to remote queue managers over mutually authenticated TLS client channels, complete with appropriate CHLAUTH rules and OAM settings.  Sample KSH scripts will be available from the conference download site that attendees can use to follow along in the session or use back home as elements of a custom instrumentation framework.

 

Automated cluster health monitoring

If your MQ cluster was in distress, would you know?  More importantly, how would the monitoring agent know?  The trick to monitoring the MQ cluster for subtle health issues is to correlate state across both repositories and this is challenging for local monitoring agents.  This session walks through a methodology to compare the state of the repositories using simple scripting.  The resulting scripts can feed return codes and messages to monitoring agents or print full human-readable exception reports. Sample KSH scripts will be available from the conference download site that attendees can use to follow along in the session or use back home as elements of a custom instrumentation framework.  Some portions of this session reference the companion session "Using runmqsc and dmpmqcfg over TLS client" which is recommended but not required.

-- T.Rob