Day 1Introductions, agenda review, previous experience and desired outcome
Presentation: Introducing the MQ Appliance.
- Introduce and explain the benefits of the MQ Appliance
- Different models, and the hardware characteristics
- Performance characteristics
- Administrative options
Lab: Introducing the MQ Appliance
- Initial setup of the appliance
- Creating a queue manager
- Connecting an application
Presentation: Explain the firmware and command line interface
- Similarities and differences with the MQ Appliance
- MQ Appliance firmware
- Command line interface
- Scripting the CLI
- Intelligent platform management interface (IPMI)
Lab: MQ Appliance command line
Presentation: MQ Appliance security
- MQ Security
- MQ Appliance Administrative security
- Encrypted disk
- Advanced Message Security (AMS)
Lab: Securing the MQ Appliance
- User access management on administrative interfaces
- Username/password configuration, including LDAP
- Creating and managing certificates
- Securing the CLI using certificates
- Securing MQ traffic using certificates
Day 2Presentation: Introduce High Availability and Disaster RecoveryUnderstanding the key three topologies:
- High availability (2 appliances)
- High availability with single disaster recovery appliance (2 + 1 appliances)
- High availability with resilient disaster recovery site (2 + 2 appliances)
Presentation: Network configuration
- Network devices on the appliance
- Configurations for HA and DR options
- Float IP address
- Link aggregation
Lab: configure two appliances for HA
Lab: configure two appliances for disaster recovery
Lab: configure two appliances for HA/DR
Day 3
Presentation: monitoring a MQ Appliance
- Monitoring the MQ Appliance
- Hardware monitoring
- Failed resources
- Queue Manager monitoring
- Logs
- Log targets
Lab: configuring monitoring of a MQ Appliance
Presentation: MQ firmware and upgrades
- Applying firmware updates
- Backing-up the MQ Appliance
- Restoring the MQ Appliance
- Reset to factory settings
- Considerations for HA & DR
Lab: Upgrading an MQ appliance