Restarting a queue manager

You can use the strmqm command to restart a queue manager, or on Windows and Linux® x86-64 systems, you can restart a queue manager from IBM® MQ Explorer.

About this task

You can restart a queue manager by using the strmqm command. For a description of the strmqm command and its options, see strmqm.

[Windows] [Linux] On Windows and Linux x86-64 systems, you can restart a queue manager by using the IBM MQ Explorer in the same way as for starting a queue manager.

Procedure

To restart a queue manager by using the strmqm command, enter the command followed by the name of the queue manager that you want to restart.
For example, to start a queue manager called strmqm saturn.queue.manager, enter the following command:
```
strmqm saturn.queue.manager
```
To start a queue manager by using the IBM MQ Explorer, complete the following steps:
1. Open the IBM MQ Explorer.
2. In the Navigator view, select the queue manager.
3. Click Start.

Results

The queue manager restarts.

If the queue manager restart takes more than a few seconds IBM MQ issues information messages intermittently detailing the start-up progress.