ZenPacks : IBM Websphere MQ ZenPack : Comments

RE: IBM Websphere MQ ZenPack

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:31:09 GMT

I have a BASH script that I've been using for about 2 years to collect MQ channel depth, that if you're interested i'll happily contribute to your project.

It's designed to work against both Windows and *nix platforms, and, rather than using a remote agent, remotely executes "runmq" commands (via SSH on *nix and "winexe" on Windows) and returns the output. It could probably be easily rewritten to accept arbitrary commands as input, but should probably be written in something other than BASH.

It might be easier to manage, though, than dealing with a remote agent (and the fear that the remote agent might interfere with system function).

On Windows 2003 servers and above, a dummy service has to be created on the remote end using the "sc" command, but other than that it uses the default Zenoss config properties.

RE: IBM Websphere MQ ZenPack

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:19:22 GMT

I'm looking at trying to get this running on some test servers...it appears that this is designed to run on linux-based MQ servers (and not on Windows-based ones) -- is that the case?

Thanks,

Joseph

RE: IBM Websphere MQ ZenPack

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:50:47 GMT

Joseph, you seem to have implemented very rich capabilities. You may want to create a ZenPack for this.

The reason we choose to use remote agent is because we did not want to install IBM MQ client on Zenoss server or grant access previleges to Zenoss server to run remote scripts on MQ server. Hence we ended up having 'remote agent' on MQ server to serve us the metric values.

Thanks,

Suchitra