Submitted by: Suchitra Subbakrishna

Description:

This Monitoring ZenPack provides IBM Websphere MQ-based monitoring using utilities installed on the remote MQ servers.

We have prepared a ZenPack to monitor IBM MQ channel(s) status and performance monitoring. This ZenPack uses a remote agent (packed inside the ZenPack) which is a HTTP daemon service that would use IBM MQ Client tools to collect metrics. A remote agent would be configured to use a specific port; made to expose the monitoring page through basic-auth security.

The whole ZenPack is built on Python (2.4); and start up service are included for Linux platform.

Screenshots:

Below diagram provides the high-level details of how monitoring is done;  and what programs, and configurations are involved.

Components:

The ZenPack has the following Device Class(es)

• Performance Template IBMMQMonitor

  /zport/dmd/Devices/Server/rrdTemplates/IBMMQMonitor        For Monitoring channels in the IBM MQ using runmqsc shell

  DataSource	Datapoint	Description
  MQMonitor
  	BGR.B001_BYTSRCVD
  	BGR.B001_BYTSSENT
  	BGR.B001_MSGS
  	ChanStatus
  	MOCO_2_BGR_BYTSRCVD
  	MOCO_2_BGR_BYTSSENT
  	MOCO_2_BGR_MSGS

  Graph MQ Channel Metrics

   

  Name	Type	Description
  BGR.B001_BYTSRCVD	DataPointGraphPoint
  BGR.B001_BYTSSENT	DataPointGraphPoint
  BGR.B001_MSGS	DataPointGraphPoint
  MOCO_2_BGR_BYTSRCVD	DataPointGraphPoint
  MOCO_2_BGR_BYTSSENT	DataPointGraphPoint
  MOCO_2_BGR_MSGS	DataPointGraphPoint

Installation:

Please read the Install Guide that is attached as a PDF file below. It involves changing zenoss properties and installing a remote agent on the MQ device.

Requirements:

• Zenoss Versions Supported:3.0.3
• External Dependencies: None
• ZenPack Dependencies:
• Installation Notes:zenoss restart after installing this ZenPack.
• Configuration: No Configuration Properties

History:

Change History:

• 1.2 initial release

Tested: This ZenPack was tested with Zenoss version 3.0.3.

• 1.3 compiled with python 2.6

Source:

Known issues:

Source: http://github.com/zenoss/Community-Zenpacks/tree/master/ZenPacks.mcgov.IBMMQMonitor/

Tagged  Releases: http://github.com/zenoss/Community-Zenpacks/tree/IBMMQMonitor1.2