Microsoft MSMQ 2008

Summary

Message Queuing (also known as MSMQ) is a server application that enables applications to communicate across heterogeneous networks and systems that may be temporarily offline or otherwise inaccessible. Instead of an application communicating with a service on another computer, it sends its information to Message Queuing, which sends the information to a Message Queuing service on the target computer where it is made available to the other application. Message Queuing provides guaranteed delivery, efficient routing, security, and priority based messaging.

By using embedded expertise, this Management Pack highlights performance, health, and availability conditions that indicate problems. It can in some cases even identify issues before they become critical thus providing you with a level of customer responsiveness that increases the overall availability and performance of your MSMQ 5.0 infrastructure. As a result this Management Pack will reduce the total cost of ownership (TOC) by enabling proactive management and reducing resolution times for the issues defined.

The Message Queuing Management Pack includes the following features and capabilities:

Monitors and Rules

A complete set of Monitors and Rules have been provided to monitor Message Queuing 5.0. The Management Pack includes monitoring capabilities for:

• Service Management

• Queue availability

• Message Queuing Service Performance

Tasks

A set of tasks that will allow restarting the service or collecting data from a queue in real-time.

Knowledge

A complete set of Knowledge has been provided for the Monitors, Rules, and Discoveries.

Configuration

This Management pack doesn’t require any out of box configuration. Overrides may be applied to features to modify the out of box configuration (eg: enable/disable monitors and rules, change thresholds, etc)

Note: This Management Pack depends on the appropriate configuration of the “MSMQ 2008 Queue Access Account”