IBM MQ Management Pack

Discovers and monitors:

• MQ Server (Service Running)
• Queue Managers (Status)
• Queues (Status, Queue Depth, Queue Percent Used, IPROCS, OPROCS)
• Listeners (Status, Sessions)
• Channels (Status)

This is loosely based on a previous community MP, but is a complete re-write.  Changes include:

• Streamlined class and monitor structure
• Changed all VBScript workflows to PowerShell
• Re-wrote all monitoring workflows to support cookdown.

Discovery is based on the existence of the MQ_Installation1 service (registry).

Queue Managers are then discovered.  Once the queue mangers are discovered, we discover the Channels, Listeners, and Queues from there.

Events logged:  Discoveries:  (7100 – 7104) Monitoring workflows:  (17000 – 17004)

This is a good sample MP to demonstrate multi-role applications, relationships, dependency monitors, and multi-instance objects needing cookdown.

Notes:

• The IBM MQ Server role discovery looks for existence of HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MQ_Installation1.  You might need to change this logic for multiple installations or non-default installations.  I welcome feedback here.
• The IPPROCS monitor is disabled by default because it can be noisy for default SYSTEM queues.
• You can disable discovery of all SYSTEM.* queues, by a simple edit in the Queue Discovery script.  Change the line with:
  • [bool]$DiscoverSystemQueues = $true
    • to:
  • [bool]$DiscoverSystemQueues = $false