Because application performance, reliability, and security are at a premium in production environments, message service resources must be tightly monitored and controlled through ongoing administrative maintenance operations, including the following:
Broker administration and tuning
Using broker metrics to tune and reconfigure a broker ( Chapter 13, Analyzing and Tuning a Message Service)
Managing broker memory resources (Managing Broker System-Wide Memory)
Creating and managing broker clusters to balance message load (Chapter 10, Configuring and Managing Broker Clusters)
Recovering failed brokers (Starting Brokers).
Administered objects
Adjusting connection factory attributes to ensure the correct behavior of client applications (Connection Factory Attributes)
Monitoring and managing physical destinations ( Configuring and Managing Physical Destinations)
Controlling user access to destinations ( Authorization Rules for Physical Destinations)
Client management
Monitoring and managing durable subscriptions (see Managing Durable Subscriptions).
Monitoring and managing transactions (see Managing Transactions).