Starting and stopping a queue manager

You can start or stop an individual queue manager, or start or stop all the queue managers in a queue manager set.

About this task

Before you can create IBM® MQ objects to be hosted by the queue manager, and before you can start any of the IBM MQ objects that are hosted by the queue manager, you must start the queue manager.

In some circumstances, such as if you have changed the attributes of the queue manager, if you want to apply a fix pack to IBM MQ, or if you want to stop the queue manager participating in a messaging network, you need to stop the queue manager.

To start or stop a queue manager in IBM MQ Explorer, complete the following steps.

Procedure

  1. In the Navigator view, expand the Queue Managers folder.
  2. Right-click the name of the queue manager, then click Start or Stop.
  3. If you chose to stop the queue manager, select Controlled or Immediate.
  4. Click OK.

Results

The icon next to the queue manager's name changes to indicate that the queue manager has started or stopped as appropriate.

Queue manager sets

Before you begin

You can also start or stop all the queue managers in a queue manager set.

Before you start or stop all the queue managers in a set, the following steps need to be taken:
  1. You must display queue manager sets as described in: Displaying queue manager sets.
  2. You must define a set for the queue managers as described in: Defining manual sets or: Defining automatic sets.

About this task

To start or stop all the queue managers in a set in the Explorer view:

Procedure

  1. In the Navigator view, expand the Queue Managers folder.
  2. Right-click the name of the set to open the menu. Click Start Local Queue Managers or Stop Local Queue Managers.

Results

The icon next to the queue manager's name changes to indicate that the queue manager has started or stopped as appropriate.