Qflex Overview

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Qflex Overview

• Netflexity, Inc.

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What is Qflex?

• Qflex is a WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message
  Broker Monitoring Facility
• Qflex is web based application that runs all the
  time and performs various monitoring tasks
• Qflex is accessible from anywhere via browser

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Purpose of Qflex

• Qflex can perform 3 groups of tasks
• Failure Monitoring
• Performance Monitoring or Capacity Planning
• Change Control

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Failure Monitoring?

• Monitor status of MQ Queue Manager or Broker
• Monitor for Specific Queue Depths and Channel
  Status.
• Detect messages that have been sitting on the
  queue too long
• Identify failures in Message Broker
• Perform Recovery Actions (including by accessing
  server via ssh and invoking scripts)
• Send alerts via SNMP, E-mail or Log
• Perform monitoring according to user defined
  policy (certain days of the week, month, etc)

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Performance Monitoring

• Collect statistics about how many messages went
  through each queue
• Facilitate performance testing by showing how
  fast applications are enqueing and dequeing
  messages
• Show when and how many messages were places on
  specific queues
• Allow users to browse and put messages on the
  queue via web based interface.

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Change Control

• Qflex can detect changes to all WebSphere MQ
  objects
• Changes can be approved or objects can be
  reverted to any of the previously recorded states
  by rejecting the change
• Alternatively changes can be scheduled to be
  promoted to other environments at specific
  intervals

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Qflex Security and Logging

• Qflex allows creating of users with different
  levels of security access
• All logins and other actions performed can be
  logged for later auditing