Verifying a server installation

You can verify a local (stand-alone) installation or a server-to-server installation of the IBM® MQ server. A local installation has no communication links with other IBM MQ installations while a server-to-server installation does have links to other installations.

You can use either the command line or the postcard application to verify your installation. The postcard application is Java based and requires a system with the ability to view a graphical display.

A local installation uses a single queue manager while a server-to-server installation has multiple queue managers and queues, and both sender and receiver channels.

For a server-to-server verification, the communication links between the two systems must be checked. Before you can do the verification, you must ensure that the communications protocol is installed and configured on both systems. The examples explain how to verify your installation using TCP.