| What may have seemed like something you could do | | | | MQ environment. AutoPilot offers dependable |
| only in your dreams is a reality. AutoPilot M6 for | | | | message tracking and auditing. It also provides |
| WebSphere MQ manages the performance and | | | | point-in-time recovery capabilities while generating |
| availability of your entire WebSphere MQ environment | | | | detailed reports that provide real-time visibility into all |
| from a single point of control. AutoPilot for WebSphere | | | | WMQ messaging within the enterprise. |
| MQ deals with every aspect of WMQ management. | | | | Capacity Planning |
| WebSphere MQ Administration | | | | AutoPilot allows IT developers to evaluate the existing |
| AutoPilot oversees administration tasks including | | | | WebSphere MQ version's performance capabilities. |
| creating, starting, altering, viewing, stopping, and deleting | | | | This makes designing and sizing WMQ configurations |
| such things as clusters, processes and WebSphere | | | | more efficient. |
| MQ objects (queue managers, queues, namelists, | | | | Operational Monitoring |
| process definitions, channels, client connection channels, | | | | AutoPilot centralizes control of the entire WebSphere |
| listeners, services, and authentication information | | | | MQ environment. If your system already has HP |
| objects). AutoPilot can perform this task both locally | | | | Operations Center enterprise, AutoPilot makes that |
| and remotely. | | | | platform even more useful. AutoPilot WMQ SPI |
| Configuration Management | | | | provides real-time access to consolidated, high-level |
| AutoPilot uses its own embedded Configuration | | | | views into the overall health of your WMQ |
| Management Database (CMDB) for WebSphere MQ | | | | environment. At the same time, it delivers deeply |
| to accomplish full 360o management capabilities. | | | | granular drill-down insight on demand into |
| AutoPilot for WMQ automatically discovers all the | | | | WebSphere-integrated application process layers. |
| queue managers and MQ objects. It can create, | | | | Message Management Facility |
| change, delete and clone MQ objects. It centralizes the | | | | AutoPilot offers two versions of its Message |
| configuration management database. It monitors object | | | | Management facility (MMF). One is integrated with the |
| changes and makes rolling back to a previous | | | | APWMQ console. The other is a web version. Both |
| configuration simple. It maintains a centralized and | | | | allow users to view, move, delete and edit |
| consistent interface across all platforms and various | | | | messages. Users can also auto format message |
| WebSphere MQ versions. | | | | content based on their own user-defined structures. |
| All of this is data is maintained in an easily accessible | | | | Re-routing and the dead letter queue (DLQ) can be |
| SQL database. The primary advantage of AutoPilot's | | | | managed from one central location. The Message |
| design is the way it allows IT personnel to store | | | | Management Facility makes finding messages |
| configuration changes and also follow an audit trail. | | | | anywhere in the WMQ network a quick and easy |
| AutoPilot is also designed to complement the | | | | task. |
| capabilities of other CMDB tools already in the system. | | | | This facility is used by both the middleware team and |
| Performance and Availability Monitoring | | | | development. The middleware team could use these |
| AutoPilot monitors WebSphere MQ operations. Is | | | | when they receive odd messages. The test group |
| WMQ performing properly? Is there unidentified down | | | | within development can use the MMF to move a |
| time? Are all transactions flowing through at the | | | | message that is preventing an application from reading |
| correct speed? | | | | a queue into a different queue for triage. Developers |
| AutoPilot uses a complex event processing (CEP) | | | | could use this facility to make copies of messages for |
| engine to deliver comprehensive fault management. | | | | replaying, to make changes to the messages that |
| But more than this, AutoPilot is proactive. It scans for | | | | might test different paths, and other actions to help |
| abnormally processed transactions. When an | | | | them in their development process. |
| impending problem is detected, proactive alarms are | | | | Command Line Interface |
| triggered. This gives IT the data needed to take | | | | AutoPilot is designed for use with many different |
| proactive action. No longer do IT staff have to wait for | | | | operating systems including Linux-based WebSphere |
| systems to break down. Problems can be resolved | | | | MQ enterprise systems. Linux-users will be |
| before they impact customers. | | | | comfortable with the command line interface |
| Business Transaction Monitoring | | | | Security |
| In addition to the middleware messages it handles, | | | | AutoPilot provides via integration with Kerberos and |
| AutoPilot also monitors transactions. There are more | | | | Windows AD for user authentication. This MQ doctor |
| than one type of transaction because there are at | | | | provides strong granular authorization control, ensuring |
| least two types of transactions common to | | | | that your IT environment remains safe. |
| business—IT transactions and business transactions. | | | | AutoPilot M6 for WebSphere MQ is one application |
| It can take hundreds of IT transactions to make up | | | | performance management tool worth considering for |
| one business transaction. | | | | any business looking for a solution that provides not |
| Message Tracking | | | | only WMQ monitoring but also a full-spectrum solution |
| Knowing where MQ message interfaces have | | | | for managing all applications and business transaction |
| occurred, which messages were handled and where | | | | processes used within the business. |
| they were sent is central to managing the WebSphere | | | | |