Real-time monitoring

Real-time monitoring is a technique that allows you to determine the current state of queues and channels within a queue manager. The information returned is accurate at the moment the command was issued.

A number of commands are available that when issued return real-time information about queues and channels. Information can be returned for one or more queues or channels and can vary in quantity. Real-time monitoring can be used in the following tasks:

• Helping system administrators understand the steady state of their IBM® MQ system. This helps with problem diagnosis if a problem occurs in the system.
• Determining the condition of your queue manager at any moment, even if no specific event or problem has been detected.
• Assisting with determining the cause of a problem in your system.

With real-time monitoring, information can be returned for either queues or channels. The amount of real-time information returned is controlled by queue manager, queue, and channel attributes.

• You monitor a queue by issuing commands to ensure that the queue is being serviced properly. Before you can use some of the queue attributes, you must enable them for real-time monitoring.
• You monitor a channel by issuing commands to ensure that the channel is running properly. Before you can use some of the channel attributes, you must enable them for real-time monitoring.

Real-time monitoring for queues and channels is in addition to, and separate from, performance and channel event monitoring.