Sun Java System Message Queue 4.3 Administration Guide

How This Book Is Organized

Table P–1 describes the contents of this manual.

Table P–1 Contents of This Manual

Chapter/Appendix 

Description 

Part I, Introduction to Message Queue Administration

Chapter 1, “Administrative Tasks and Tools”

Introduces Message Queue administrative tasks and tools.  

Chapter 2, “Quick-Start Tutorial”

Provides a hands-on tutorial to acquaint you with the Message Queue Administration Console.  

Part II, Administrative Tasks

Chapter 3, “Starting Brokers and Clients”

Describes how to start the Message Queue broker and clients.  

Chapter 4, Configuring a Broker

Describes how configuration properties are set and read, and gives an introduction to the configurable aspects of the broker.  

Chapter 5, Managing a Broker

Describes broker management tasks.  

Chapter 6, Configuring and Managing Connection Services

Describes configuration and management tasks relating to the broker's connection services.  

Chapter 7, Managing Message Delivery

Describes how to create and manage physical destinations and manage other aspects of message delivery.  

Chapter 8, Configuring Persistence Services

Describes how to set up a file-based or JDBC-based data store to perform persistence services.  

Chapter 11, Managing Administered Objects

Describes the object store and shows how to perform tasks related to administered objects (connection factories and destinations).  

Chapter 10, Configuring and Managing Broker Clusters

Describes how to set up and manage a cluster of Message Queue brokers.  

Chapter 9, Configuring and Managing Security Services

Describes security-related tasks, such as managing password files, authentication, authorization, and encryption.  

Chapter 12, Monitoring Broker Operations

Describes how to set up and use Message Queue monitoring facilities.  

Chapter 11, “Analyzing and Tuning a Message Service”

Describes techniques for analyzing and optimizing message service performance.  

Chapter 12, “Troubleshooting”

Provides suggestions for determining the cause of common Message Queue problems and the actions you can take to resolve them.  

Part III, Reference

Chapter 13, “Command Line Reference”

Provides syntax and descriptions for Message Queue command line utilities.  

Chapter 14, “Broker Properties Reference”

Describes the configuration properties of Message Queue message brokers.  

Chapter 15, “Physical Destination Property Reference”

Describes the configuration properties of physical destinations.  

Chapter 16, “Administered Object Attribute Reference”

Describes the configuration properties of administered objects (connection factories and destinations).  

Chapter 17, “JMS Resource Adapter Property Reference”

Describes the configuration properties of the Message Queue Resource Adapter for use with an application server.  

Chapter 18, “Metrics Reference”

Describes the metric information that a Message Queue message broker can provide for monitoring, turning, and diagnostic purposes. . 

Chapter 19, “JES Monitoring Framework Reference”

Lists Message Queue attributes that are accessible by means of the Java Enterprise System Monitoring Framework (JESMF).

Part IV, Appendixes

Appendix A,“ Platform-Specific Locations of Message Queue Data”

Lists the locations of Message Queue files on each supported platform.  

Appendix B,“ Stability of Message Queue Interfaces”

Describes the stability of various Message Queue interfaces.  

Appendix C, “HTTP/HTTPS Support”

Describes how to set up and use the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for Message Queue communication.

Appendix D, “JMX Support”

Describes Message Queue’s administrative support for client programs using the Java Management Extensions (JMX) application programming interface

Appendix E, “Frequently Used Command Utility Commands”

Lists some frequently used Message Queue Command utility (imqcmd) commands.