Configuring ITCAM configuration agent for WebSphere MQ

This section contains instructions for configuring ITCAM configuration agent for WebSphere® MQ before you can start to use the agent.

• Add the user ID that is to run the agent to the mqm group. For instructions, see Authorizing user IDs for the agent. This step is required unless WebSphere MQ is at release level 7.0.1 or later and the user ID has been authorized in object authority manager (OAM) specially for all of its functionality.
• Optional: If you want to use a DB2 Universal Database™ as the configuration database, create a database and grant permissions to the user ID that is used to run the hub monitoring server. See Authorizing the user ID for DB2 database.
• Set up the configuration database, which is stored at the hub monitoring server. See Setting up the configuration database.
• (WebSphere MQ 7.1 or later): Specify the library path of WebSphere MQ in the mc.ini file. See Specifying WebSphere MQ library path (WebSphere MQ 7.1 or later).
• Optional: For multiple installation or non primary installation of WebSphere MQ, specify the WebSphere MQ installation path with two parameters in the mc.cfg agent configuration file. See Specifying WebSphere MQ installation path for multiple installations or non-primary installation.
• If the WebSphere MQ configuration file, mqs.ini, is stored in the directory rather than the default directory (/var/mqm), you must specify the file location in the mc.ini agent configuration file. See Specifying the mqs.ini file location.