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Local and remote administration

 

You administer WebSphere MQ objects locally or remotely.

Local administration means carrying out administration tasks on any queue managers you have defined on your local system. We can access other systems, for example through the TCP/IP terminal emulation program telnet, and carry out administration there. In WebSphere MQ, we can consider this as local administration because no channels are involved, that is, the communication is managed by the operating system.

WebSphere MQ supports administration from a single point of contact through what is known as remote administration. This allows you to issue commands from your local system that are processed on another system. For example, we can issue a remote command to change a queue definition on a remote queue manager. You do not have to log on to that system, although you do need to have the appropriate channels defined. The queue manager and command server on the target system must be running.

Some commands cannot be issued in this way, in particular, creating or starting queue managers and starting command servers. To perform this type of task, either log onto the remote system and issue the commands from there or create a process that can issue the commands for you.

Administering remote WebSphere MQ objects describes the subject of remote administration in greater detail.

 

Parent topic:

An introduction to WebSphere MQ administration

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