Filtering Telemetry objects

If we are viewing several defined telemetry objects in the Content view, you might need a way to narrow the search scope of these objects. Do this by using filters.

Before starting

• Install the MQ Telemetry feature.
• Configure your queue manager for the MQ Telemetry feature. For more information, see Configure MQ Telemetry using IBM MQ Explorer.

About this task

The Telemetry channel status view has a filtering option. Within Telemetry, filtering is best used when viewing the client connections in the Telemetry Channel Status Content view. Multiple telemetry channels might have multiple clients attached to each of them. All of these connections are displayed in the Channel Status folder. For example, you might want to display MQTT clients with client IDs like ibm_client. This returns clients with client IDs such as ibm_client1, ibm_client2, and ibm_client3.

We can also filter telemetry channels using the same filtering steps. For this task, we are filtering in the Telemetry Channel Status content view.

Procedure

To filter telemetry objects, perform the following steps:

1. Assuming that we have installed and set up your queue manager for Telemetry, click the Channel Status folder.
2. In the Telemetry Channel status Content view, click the arrow next to the Filter name.
   • To select a filtering option from a list of defined filters, click Select Filter. The default filter in the Channel Status Content view is Standard for Telemetry Channel Status.
   • To change the options for the current filter, click Edit current filter.
   • To add, copy, or edit filters, click Manage filters.
   1. To add a filter, in the Manage filters window, click Add.
   2. Type a meaningful name in the Filter Name field. For example, type Clients belonging to my IBM channel.
   3. Set the condition to apply to the telemetry channels. For example, Channel name like IBM.CHANNEL.
   4. To add another rule, select AND.
   5. Click Select to change the attribute to filter on.
   6. Type an appropriate rule, then click OK.

3. Select the filter name that we want to apply to that content view and click OK.

Results

The filter is applied and your objects are filtered based on the criteria set in the filtering option. Parent topic: Administer MQ Telemetry using IBM MQ Explorer