Broker Administration perspective

This is where the broker domain resources (also referred to as domain objects) that are defined on one or more Configuration Managers are managed.

Typically, you carry out the following tasks in this perspective:
  • Setting up the broker domain, for example creating collectives
    • Creating and removing domain connections.
    • Connecting and removing brokers.
  • Adding and removing execution groups.
  • Creating and deploying broker archive (bar) files.
  • Defining and managing publish/subscribe topic hierarchies.
  • Querying, viewing and deleting subscriptions.
  • Clearing and filtering deploy event log entries.
  • Activating, deactivating, filtering, and clearing alerts.
  • Adding, removing, and updating entries in access control lists (ACLs).

The following figure shows the Broker Administration perspective of the Message Brokers Toolkit. The Domains view in the figure shows that the Message Brokers Toolkit is connected to the Default Configuration.

A screen capture of the Broker Administration perspective.

The Broker Administration perspective provides several views that allow you to navigate and update your broker domain resources.

Broker Administration Navigator view

This is where you view and work with any of the broker domain resource files. You can also deploy and delete any resource file that has been created in the Broker Application Development perspective.

The broker domain resource files are contained in the following folders:
Domain Connections
Contains the domain connections that are defined to multiple local and remote Configuration Managers.
Broker Archives
Contains the broker archive (bar) files.
Message Flows
Contains the message flow (msgflow) files.

Domains view

This is where you view and work with any of the broker domain objects listed below, when a broker domain is connected to a Configuration Manager:

  • Broker Topology
  • Topics
  • Subscriptions
  • Event Log entries

You can manage deployed configurations in this view. Double-clicking an object launches the appropriate editor in the editor view. You can also deploy bar files on execution groups, and start and stop message flows.

By default, an alert icon is displayed for a domain object that is connected to a Configuration Manager but is not in a normal running state. You can choose not to display the alert icon using an option that is available in the Alerts view.

Editor view

You can open any broker domain resource to launch its default editor in the editor view. The following default editors are available:
Broker Topology editor
For administering the brokers and collectives within a broker domain.
Topics Hierarchy editor
For managing topics within a publish/subscribe system.
Subscriptions Query editor
For viewing and deleting subscriptions within a publish/subscribe system. Subscriptions that use the WebSphere MQ Real-time Transport are not displayed in the Subscriptions Query editor.
Event Log editor
For viewing, clearing and filtering event log entries.

Properties view

Displays the property names and values for the domain object selected in the Broker Administration Navigator view.

Alerts view

An alert is displayed in the Alerts view when a domain object is connected to a Configuration Manager but is not in a normal running state. The normal running state for a domain object is started, without a user trace or any other special processing enabled.

The Alerts view is updated continuously while the workbench is connected to a Configuration Manager.

You can filter, clear, and remove alerts from this view. You can also quieten alerts. This removes the alert icon from every object in the hierarchy in the Domains view, except for the alerted object and its parent.

When a new object is added to the domain it is selected in the Alerts Filter by default. Therefore, you might want to modify the selection of objects in the Alerts Filter after a new object has been added to the domain by you or anyone else.

Related concepts
Client environment