Configuring the IBM Integration Bus agent
You must assign an instance name to the IBM® Integration Bus agent and configure the agent before it can start monitoring your IBM Integration Bus environment.
Before you begin
- Make sure that the user ID that is used to start and stop the agent belongs to the mqm and mqbrkrs user groups.
- If IBM MQ (WebSphere® MQ) is installed on the Windows system, add the IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ) library path to the PATH environment
variable. So that the IBM Integration Bus agent can load
the required IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ) libraries to start.
- Add the IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ) library path to the beginning of the PATH environment
variable.
For example, if the installation path of IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ) is C:\IBM\WMQ75, add C:\IBM\WMQ75\bin to the beginning of the PATH environment variable of your Windows system.
- Restart the Windows system for the changes to take effect.
- Add the IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ) library path to the beginning of the PATH environment
variable.
- You might need to provide the following information according to your environment during the
agent configuration. If you do not know the appropriate configuration value to specify, gather the
information from the administrator of IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ) and IBM Integration Bus.
- If IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ) is installed on the same system with the IBM Integration Bus agent, you must provide the 64-bit library path of IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ).
- If the IBM Integration Bus agent is configured to monitor the integration nodes of IBM Integration Bus V10 or IBM App Connect Enterprise V11, you must provide the installation directory for IBM Integration Bus V10 or IBM App Connect Enterprise V11.
- If you want the IBM Integration Bus agent to monitor some specific integration nodes (brokers) instead of all on the same system, you must provide the name and installation path of each integration node (broker).
About this task
The IBM Integration Bus agent is a multiple instance agent; you must create the first instance and start the agent manually.
You can choose to configure the agent with or without interactions on UNIX or Linux® systems. On Windows systems, you can configure the agent without interactions only.
- To configure the agent with interaction, run the configuration script and respond to prompts. See Interactive configuration.
- To configure the agent without interaction, edit the silent response file and then run the configuration script. See Silent configuration.
Interactive configuration
Procedure
To configure the agent by running the script and responding to prompts, complete the following steps:
Silent configuration
Procedure
To configure the agent by editing the silent response file and running the script with no interaction, complete the following steps:
Results
Now, you can log in to the Cloud APM console and use the Applications editor to add the IBM Integration Bus agent instance to the Application Performance Dashboard. For instructions on how to start the Cloud APM console, see Starting the Cloud APM console. For information about using the Applications editor, see Managing applications.
What to do next
The next step is to configure IBM Integration Bus for data enablement. The following data is available on the Application Performance Dashboard only after you enable them in IBM Integration Bus:
- Archive accounting and statistics
- JVM resource statistics
- Transaction tracking
For instructions, see Configuring IBM Integration Bus for data enablement.