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IBM Integration Explorer

The IBM® Integration Explorer is a graphical user interface based on the Eclipse platform for administering your integration nodes (brokers).

The IBM Integration Explorer is an extension to the WebSphere® MQ Explorer.

You can install the IBM Integration Explorer only on Windows and Linux on x86. You can view and interact only with integration nodes (brokers) that you have created in WebSphere Message Broker Version 7.0 or later.

The IBM Integration Explorer

To use the IBM Integration Explorer, you must start the WebSphere MQ Explorer. The IBM Integration Explorer adds the Integration Nodes folder and Broker Archive Files folder to the MQ Explorer - Navigator view:

Use the Integration Nodes folder to create, view, and modify integration nodes
Use the Broker Archive Files folder to import, view, and modify BAR files before deploying them to your integration nodes

If you cannot see these two folders in your MQ Explorer session, you have not installed the plug-ins that are specific to the IBM Integration Bus, which are provided by IBM Integration Explorer. Close your MQ Explorer session, follow the instructions to install the IBM Integration Explorer, then start the MQ Explorer again.

The IBM Integration Explorer provides several QuickViews that you can use to view the properties of integration nodes and their resources. These QuickViews are automatically displayed when you click the resource in the Integration Nodes folder in the MQ Explorer - Navigator view. A QuickView is also available for viewing the details of BAR files that you have imported into the IBM Integration Explorer.

The following views and editors are provided for working with integration nodes in the IBM Integration Explorer:

Broker Archive editor: Use the Broker Archive editor to create and manage broker archive (BAR) files.
Broker Statistics and Broker Statistics Graph views: Use the Broker Statistics and Broker Statistics Graph views to view snapshot accounting and statistics data as it is produced by the broker.
Policy Sets and Policy Set Bindings editor: Use the Policy Sets and Policy Set Bindings editor to edit, save, import, and export policy sets or bindings.
Security Profiles editor: Use the Security Profiles editor to create a security profile for use with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) or Tivoli® Federated Identity Manager (TFIM).
DataPower® Security wizard: Use the DataPower Security wizard to configure an external DataPower appliance to handle the WS-Security Policy for your HTTP, HTTPS, and SOAP nodes within your message flow.
Administration Log view: Use the Administration Log view to view the results of deployment actions on integration nodes.
Activity Log view: Use the Activity Log view to view recent activities affecting your message flows, and related external resources.

Accessing context-sensitive help

The Help view provides context-sensitive help throughout the IBM Integration Explorer. You can display the Help view for most aspects of the user interface by bringing focus to the object and pressing F1 (on Windows) or SHIFT+F1 (on Linux). The Related Topics page shows description and help topics that are related to the selected object.

The following figure shows the Related Topics page of the Help view that is displayed when you press F1 when the Broker Archive Files folder is selected in the IBM Integration Explorer.

A screen capture of the Related page of the Help view with the Broker Archive Files folder selected.

Use the other pages in the Help view to view and search the contents of the information center. The Contents page shows the table of contents of all the books in the information center. The Index provides an index of keywords of all the books in the information center. You can enter a keyword in the text field on the Index page to highlight the best match in the list of keywords. You can use the Search page to locate topics, samples, and remote documents using keywords in a search query. You can bookmark topics and other documents of interest, and view them in the Bookmarks page.

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Last updated Friday, 21 July 2017