Introduction to monitoring

 

This section describes how to monitor the performance and resource usage of WebSphere 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 WebSphere MQ for z/OS Problem Determination Guide.)

• It describes how we can collect statistics about the performance of WebSphere MQ by using SMF records.

• It describes how to gather accounting data to enable you to charge your customers for their use of your WebSphere MQ systems.

• It describes how to use WebSphere MQ events (alerts) to monitor your systems.

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

• Tools provided by WebSphere MQ:

  • Using DISPLAY commands

  • Using CICS adapter statistics

  • Using WebSphere MQ events

• z/OS service aids:

  • Using System Management Facility

• Other IBM licensed programs:

  • Using Resource Measurement Facility

  • Using Performance Reporter for OS/390

  • Using the CICS monitoring facility

Information about interpreting the data gathered by the performance statistics trace is given in Interpreting WebSphere MQ performance statistics.

Information about interpreting the data gathered by the accounting trace is given in Interpreting WebSphere MQ accounting data.