Administration using the IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer

The IBM® WebSphere® MQ Explorer allows you to perform local or remote administration of your network from a computer running Windows, or Linux® (x86 and x86-64 platforms) only.

IBM WebSphere MQ for Windows, and IBM WebSphere MQ for Linux (x86 and x86-64 platforms) provide an administration interface called the IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer to perform administration tasks as an alternative to using control or MQSC commands. Comparing command sets shows you what you can do using the IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer.

The IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer allows you to perform local or remote administration of your network from a computer running Windows, or Linux (x86-64 platforms), by pointing the IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer at the queue managers and clusters you are interested in. The platforms and levels of IBM WebSphere MQ that can be administered using the IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer are described in Remote queue managers.

To configure remote IBM WebSphere MQ queue managers so that IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer can administer them, see Prerequisite software and definitions.

It allows you to perform tasks, typically associated with setting up and fine-tuning the working environment for IBM WebSphere MQ, either locally or remotely within a Windows or Linux (x86 and x86-64 platforms) system domain.

On Linux, the IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer might fail to start if you have more than one Eclipse installation. If this happens, start the IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer using a different user ID to the one you use for the other Eclipse installation.

On Linux, to start the IBM WebSphere MQ Explorer successfully, you must be able to write a file to your home directory, and the home directory must exist.