Single Broker Summary

View detailed utilization metrics and health for a single MQ Broker, such as Channel and Queue health and the number of channels per broker.

Use this display to investigate the performance and health of a broker.

Choose a broker from the drop-down menu. Click a row in the Channels table to investigate in the All Channels Table display. Click a row in the Queues table. to investigte in the All Queues Table display.

The trend graph traces the total Current Queue Depth for the selected broker. .

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Filter By:

 

 

MQ Broker

Choose a broker to display.

Fields and Data

All values describe the selected broker except where noted.

 

Connected

When checked, the broker is connected.

 

Last Update

The data and time of the last data update.

 

QM Status

The queue manager status. For example:

RUNNING - The QM is operating properly.

 

Channels

The current number of channels on the broker.

 

Queues

The current number of queues on the broker.

 

Total Queue Depth

The total depth of all queues combined.

 

Channels

Lists the channels on the broker.

 

 

Channel Name: The name of the channel.

 

 

Type: The type of channel (for example, Receiver, Cluster-sender, etc.)

 

Overall Health

The current alert severity for the broker Queue Manager, Channel, Queue Depth High and Queue Full:

red_indicator_light00191.gif Red indicates that one or more metrics exceeded their ALARM LEVEL threshold.

yellow_indicator_light00192.gif Yellow indicates that one or more metrics exceeded their WARNING LEVEL threshold.

green_indicator_light00193.gif Green indicates that no metrics have exceeded their alert thresholds.

 

Queues

Each row is a different queue on the broker. Column values describe the queue.

 

 

Name: The name of the queue.

 

 

Description: A textual description of the queue.

 

 

Current queue depth: The current queue depth.

 

 

Max queue depth: The maximum queue depth.

 

 

Max message length: The maximum message length in the queue.

Trend Graph
Traces the Queue Depth for the selected broker.

 

Log Scale

Select to enable a logarithmic scale. Use Log Scale to see usage correlations for data with a wide range of values. For example, if a minority of your data is on a scale of tens, and a majority of your data is on a scale of thousands, the minority of your data is typically not visible in non-log scale graphs. Log Scale makes data on both scales visible by applying logarithmic values rather than actual values to the data.

 

Base at Zero

Select to use zero as the Y axis minimum for all graph traces.

 

Time Range

Select a time range from the drop down menu varying from 2 Minutes to Last 7 Days, or display All Data. To specify a time range, click Calendar button_calendar.gif.

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By default, the time range end point is the current time. To change the time range end point, click Calendar button_calendar00195.gif and select a date and time from the calendar or enter the date and time in the text field using the following format: MMM dd, YYYY HH:MM. For example, Aug 21, 2011 12:24 PM.

Use the navigation arrows button_forwardback00196.gif to move forward or backward one time period. NOTE: The time period is determined by your selection from the Time Range drop-down menu.

Click Restore to Now to reset the time range end point to the current time.