Configuring WebSphere MQ monitoring

Before you can start the IBM MQ (formerly WebSphere MQ) agent, you must assign an instance name to the agent and complete the several configuration tasks for the user ID.

Before you begin

• The directions here are for the most current release of this agent. For information about how to check the version of an agent in your environment, see Agent version command. For detailed information about the agent version list and what's new for each version, see Change history.
• Make sure that the system requirements for the IBM MQ (formerly WebSphere MQ) agent are met in your environment. For the up-to-date system requirement information, see the Detailed system requirements report for the MQ agent.

About this task

To set up the environment for the IBM MQ (formerly WebSphere MQ) agent, you must first make sure the agent user ID can access IBM® MQ (WebSphere MQ) objects, configure IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ) for data enablement, and then configure the IBM MQ (formerly WebSphere MQ) agent.

Procedure

1. Authorize the user ID that is used to configure, start, and stop the agent to access IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ) objects. See Authorizing the user IDs to run the agent.
2. Configure IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ) to enable the data that you want to monitor. See Configuring IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ) for data enablement.
3. Configure the agent by providing an agent instance name, a queue manager name, and optionally an agent name. See Configuring the IBM MQ(formerly WebSphere MQ) agent.