Event monitoring
Event monitoring is the process of detecting occurrences of instrumentation events in a queue manager network. An instrumentation event is a logical combination of events that is detected by a queue manager or channel instance. Such an event causes the queue manager or channel instance to put a special message, called an event message, on an event queue.
IBM MQ instrumentation events provide information about errors, warnings, and other significant occurrences in a queue manager. Use these events to monitor the operation of the queue managers in your queue manager network to achieve the following goals:
- Detect problems in your queue manager network.
- Assist in determining the causes of problems in your queue manager network.
- Generate an audit trail.
- React to queue manager state changes
- Instrumentation events
An instrumentation event is a logical combination of conditions that a queue manager or channel instance detects and puts a special message, called an event message, on an event queue.- Performance events
Performance events relate to conditions that can affect the performance of applications that use a specified queue. The scope of performance events is the queue. MQPUT calls and MQGET calls on one queue do not affect the generation of performance events on another queue.- Configuration events
Configuration events are notifications that are generated when an object is created, changed, or deleted, and can also be generated by explicit requests.- Command events
Command events are notifications that an MQSC, or PCF command has run successfully.- Logger events
Logger events are notifications that a queue manager has started writing to a new log extent or, on IBM i, a journal receiver. Logger event messages are not available with IBM MQ for z/OS .- Authority configuration events
Authority configuration events are output when a change is made from any of the security control operations through the command line, MQSC, PCF, or corresponding IBM i commands.- Sample program to monitor instrumentation events on Multiplatforms
amqsevt formats the instrumentation events that a queue manager can create, and is supplied with IBM MQ for Multiplatforms. The program reads messages from event queues, and formats them into readable strings.Parent topic: Monitor the IBM MQ network
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