Pre-configuration tasks

Before configuring IBM® Sterling Control Center Monitor to forward events to WebSphere, you must set up IBM MQ Broker or ActiveMQ to accept MQ messages sent from IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor.

• To set up IBM MQ Broker to accept MQ messages from IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor, define the following components and authority:
  1. Topic where events will be published.
  2. Queue manager to use.
  3. Channel to use.
  4. Appropriate authority to the user ID running IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor to allow IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor to publish events to the topic.
• To configure ActiveMQ Broker to accept MQ messages from IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor, do the following:
  1. Define the topic or queue.
  2. Obtain the correct user ID and password from the ActiveMQ Broker. The default is userid=system and password=manager.
  3. Make sufficient space available to store IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor events as they are created.