Administration using the IBM MQ Explorer

The IBM MQ Explorer allows you to perform local or remote administration of our network from a computer running Windows, or Linux x86-64 only.

IBM MQ for Windows and IBM MQ for Linux x86-64 provide an administration interface called the IBM MQ Explorer to perform administration tasks as an alternative to using control or MQSC commands. Comparing command sets shows you what we can do using the IBM MQ Explorer.

The IBM MQ Explorer allows you to perform local or remote administration of our network from a computer running Windows, or Linux x86-64, by pointing the IBM MQ Explorer at the queue managers and clusters we are interested in. It can remotely connect to queue managers that are running on any supported platform including z/OS, enabling your entire messaging backbone to be viewed, explored, and altered from the console. The platforms and levels of IBM MQ that can be administered using the IBM MQ Explorer are described in Remote queue managers.

To configure remote IBM MQ queue managers so that IBM MQ Explorer can administer them, see Prerequisite software and definitions for IBM MQ Explorer.

It allows you to perform tasks, typically associated with setting up and fine-tuning the working environment for IBM MQ, either locally or remotely within a Windows or Linux x86-64 system domain.

On Linux, the IBM MQ Explorer might fail to start if you have more than one Eclipse installation. If this happens, start the IBM MQ Explorer using a different user ID to the one we use for the other Eclipse installation.

On Linux, to start the IBM MQ Explorer successfully, we must be able to write a file to your home directory, and the home directory must exist.

IBM MQ Explorer can be installed either as part of the product installation (see Installing and uninstalling IBM MQ), or from the stand-alone IBM MQ Explorer download available from Fix Central (see Install and uninstall IBM MQ Explorer as a stand-alone application on Linux and Windows).

• What we can do with the IBM MQ Explorer
  We can use the IBM MQ Explorer to perform administration tasks using a series of Content Views and Property dialogs. We can also extend the IBM MQ Explorer by writing one, or more, Eclipse plugins.
• Set up the IBM MQ Explorer
  This section outlines the steps we need to take to set up the IBM MQ Explorer.

Parent topic: Administer IBM MQ