WebSphere MQ (formerly MQSeries) is IBM's Message Oriented Middleware offering that allows independent and potentially non-concurrent applications on a distributed system to communicate with each other.
The IBM WebSphere MQ metrics provide for each metric the following information:
Description
Metric summary. The metric summary can include some or all of the following: target version, evaluation frequency, collection frequency, upload frequency, operator, default warning threshold, default critical threshold, consecutive number of occurrences preceding notification, and alert text.
Multiple Thresholds (where applicable)
This metric category provides information about the current status of the channel.
This metric shows the number of bytes received.
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 3 Minutes |
This metric shows the number of bytes sent
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 3 Minutes |
This metric shows the number of bytes received since the last collection.
Target Version | Evaluation and Collection Frequency | Default Warning Threshold | Default Critical Threshold | Alert Text |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 3 Minutes | Not Defined | Not Defined | Bytes received during last collection interval for channel %Name% is %value%, crossed warning (%warning_threshold%) or critical (%critical_threshold%) threshold. |
This metric shows the number of bytes sent since the last collection.
Target Version | Evaluation and Collection Frequency | Default Warning Threshold | Default Critical Threshold | Alert Text |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 3 Minutes | Not Defined | Not Defined | Bytes sent during last collection interval for channel %Name% is %value%, crossed warning (%warning_threshold%) or critical (%critical_threshold%) threshold. |
This metric shows the number of messages processed since last collection.
Target Version | Evaluation and Collection Frequency | Default Warning Threshold | Default Critical Threshold | Alert Text |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 3 Minutes | Not Defined | Not Defined | Messages sent or received during last collection interval for channel %Name% is %value%, crossed warning (%warning_threshold%) or critical (%critical_threshold%) threshold. |
This metric category provides information about the Channel Saved Status.
This metric shows the sequence number of the last message sent.
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 2 Minutes |
This metric shows the status of the channel
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 2 Minutes |
This category provides metrics related to the channels.
This metric shows the date on which the definition was last altered.
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the name of the IBM WebSphere MQ Cluster to which this channel belongs
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
Shows the cluster name list
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the name of the channel connection
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the maximum length of the message that can be processed by the channel
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric category provides information about Dynamic Queues.
This metric shows the type of queue definition.
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 2 Minutes |
This metric category shows metrics related to local queues.
This metric shows the cluster Name List
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the type of the queue definition
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the number of messages on the queue
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the maximum number of messages on the queue
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the maximum length of the message can be processed
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the number of open input handles, that is the total handles open for input on this queue. This gives you an idean on the number of applications that are currently connected to the queue to put messages on the queue
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the number of open output handles, that is the total handles open for output on this Queue. This gives you an idea on the number of applications that are currently connected to the queue to get messages from the queue
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the space used (in percentage)
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the type of the queue
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This category provides metrics related to IBM Websphere MQ Queue Manager Cluster, mainly the details about the channel used, the queue manager within this cluster, and the type of queue manager that is within this cluster.
This caterogy provides metrics related to Queue Manager General.
This metric shows the name of the local queue that is used for accepting commands
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 2 Minutes |
This metric shows the name of the local queue that is to be used for undelivered messages
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 2 Minutes |
This metric shows the name of the default transmission queue that is used for the transmitting messages to remote queue managers, if there is no other indication of which transmission queue to use
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 2 Minutes |
This metric shows the maximum number of handles that any one job can have open at a time
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 2 Minutes |
This metric shows the maximum length of message that can be processed
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 2 Minutes |
This metric category provides metrics about the load on the IBM Websphere MQ Queue Manager.
This metric shows the bytes received since last collection
Target Version | Evaluation and Collection Frequency | Default Warning Threshold | Default Critical Threshold | Alert Text |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 5 Minutes | Not Defined | Not Defined | Bytes received during last collection interval is %value%, crossed warning (%warning_threshold%) or critical (%critical_threshold%) threshold. |
This metric shows the bytes sent since last collection
Target Version | Evaluation and Collection Frequency | Default Warning Threshold | Default Critical Threshold | Alert Text |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 5 Minutes | Not Defined | Not Defined | Bytes sent during last collection interval is %value%, crossed warning (%warning_threshold%) or critical (%critical_threshold%) threshold. |
This metric shows the messages sent or received since last collection
Target Version | Evaluation and Collection Frequency | Default Warning Threshold | Default Critical Threshold | Alert Text |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 5 Minutes | Not Defined | Not Defined | Messages sent or received during last collection interval is %value%, crossed warning (%warning_threshold%) or critical (%critical_threshold%) threshold. |
This metric category provides metrics related to Message Queues.
This metric shows the list of clusters with which the queue is shared
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the current depth (number of messages) of the queue. For this metric you can set different warning and critical threshold values for each "QName" object. If warning or critical threshold values are currently set for any "QName" object, those thresholds can be viewed on the Metric Detail page for this metric.
Target Version | Evaluation and Collection Frequency | Default Warning Threshold | Default Critical Threshold | Alert Text |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes | 300 | 500 | The Queue is overflowing. |
This metric shows the maximum depth (number of messages) of the queue
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the maximum message length allowed on a queue
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the number of open input handles, that is the total handles open for input on this Queue. This gives you an idea on the number of applications that are currently connected to the queue to put messages on the queue
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the number of open output handles, that is the total handles open for output on this Queue. This gives you an idea on the number of applications that are currently connected to the queue to get messages from the queue.
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the name of the remote queue manager (only for remote queues)
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the remote queues with which this queue interacts
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |
This metric shows the queue type. It can be one of the following: Local, Remote, Model, Alias Queue, or Read-only
Target Version | Collection Frequency |
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IBM Websphere MQ V6, V7 | Every 10 Minutes |