Introduction to monitoring

Use this topic as an overview of the monitoring facilities available for IBM MQ for z/OS®. For example, obtaining snapshots, using IBM MQ trace, online monitoring, and events.

This topic describes how to monitor the performance and resource usage of IBM MQ.

• It outlines some of the information that we can retrieve and briefly describes a general approach to investigating performance problems. (We can find information about dealing with performance problems in the Problem determination on z/OS .)
• It describes how we can collect statistics about the performance of IBM MQ by using SMF records.
• It describes how to gather accounting data to enable you to charge your customers for their use of your IBM MQ systems.
• It describes how to use IBM MQ events (alerts) to monitor your systems.

Here are some of the tools you might use to monitor IBM MQ; they are described in the sections that follow:

• Tools provided by IBM MQ:
  • Use DISPLAY commands
  • Use CICS adapter statistics
  • Use IBM MQ events
• z/OS service aids:
  • Use System Management Facility
• Other IBM licensed programs:
  • Use the Resource Measurement Facility
  • Use Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS
  • Use the CICS monitoring facility

Information about interpreting the data gathered by the performance statistics trace is given inInterpreting IBM MQ performance statistics.

Information about interpreting the data gathered by the accounting trace is given inInterpreting IBM MQ accounting data.