My DeveloperWorks article on Monitoring message flow performance with the WebSphere Message Broker Explorer Accounting and Statistics facility has finally been published!
The new WebSphere Message Broker Accounting and Statistics facility can help you monitor message flow performance and resource usage of a broker or execution group at the message flow, node, or terminal level, and can thus be a tremendous help in solving performance and resource utilization problems.
Hopefully you will find it a good starting guide for working with the new Accounting and Statistics views in IS02
The same is also true for testers: “My tests are running”…
I have been so busy recently that I have not had time to post (again!). A few weeks ago I changed departments at work again, and am back in development though now the functional test department has merged with development, so I have been testing for the last few weeks. This means I am up to my neck in perl modules. It has been fun, and quite a learning experience. Unfortunately I have found several defects in the perl automation libraries, which really slow down my work. I have also started to use zOS, and it is quite different from anything I have used before. Thankfull I am using USS (Unix System Services) most of the time, so can find my way around that, but sometimes I have to use the real zOS interface, and that is rather tricky when you have no idea what you are doing.
I have also become the server admin for an internal Debian repository at work, which supplies several essential internal packges all sorted out to install on Debian nicely - this can be a challenge to achieve sometimes. I am doing some packaging too, which is fun but has been another long learning experience - I always though Debian packges were lot simpler than they really are.
On Saturday I was up in London for the WildChild dance festival, which was moved from Shoreditch Park to Kings Cross freight yards (home of the keys, the cross and canvas) which was just as well as it was a really wet day. The day was really good, lots of great music though the rooms (of which there must have been 8 or 10) varied in terms of size, neatness and amounts of lighting. The only regret was that somehow I missed Dogzilla - we were in the right room at the right time, but no mention of them…
On the way back from London the train got stuck outside Winchester while the Police armed response unit was called for a security incident on the train at winchester station. Strangely the conductor called smokers to the back of the train and allowed people to stand in the back drivers cab with the windows open and smoke, while he was at the other end of the train. This is more strange because the next morning smoking is banned in all enclosed public spaces in England, and smoking on trains has not been permitted for several years (I can’t remember it happening, though I can remember smoking on planes).
I spent all of last week on the Red Hat Rapid Training and Certification course trying to learn more about linux.
I certainly learnt a hell of a lot, and the 4 day course was a lot of work and very tiring. The exam however made all that seem relaxing. I have never sat a full day exam before, and it is not exactly a peacful exercise. Unfortunately I cannot say much about the exam as I have signed a non-disclosure agreement about it, but parts were easy and some parts were hard.
As it turns out some parts were very hard as I did not get enough marks to qualify for Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) - I did get enough for Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT).
I am really a Debian user at heart, but the Red Hat course showed how similar the two can be, though there are certain parts that have differences. The biggest difference is probably that when you install a new server program/package in Debian, it comes with a fairly normal config file and starts up running. In Red Hat the config will be fairly restrictive and the service will not be started for you, nor will it be set to restart on reboot.
I have no plans to move away from Debian though, but the Red Hat experience was really informative and the course certainly got me setting up things I would probably never have done otherwise…
The extra project I had been working on before christmas has finally been approved and is released! The IS02 Broker Explorer support pack (v2) contains a whole pile of new features, including:
- Control of remote brokers/config managers
- Association of a broker with a config manager (local or remote)
- Deploying a bar file (broker archive) to multiple execution groups at once
- Viweing of accounting and statistics data, as well as remote control of accounting and statistics collection (snapshot data)
It is available for download from the IBM Support Website, and has now been released as a category 2 support pack, which means support for it is available from IBM.
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=171&uid=swg24012457&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8〈=en
There should be a Developer Works article on it soon, I will let you know when it has been published!
[ Let me know what you think of the stats and accounting bit, as that is my code 
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So my week off was really nice. I watched films, read books, took a quick day trip to the new forest with a friend down from London.
I won’t mention too much about the films and books other than to say Dune is an incredible book, I will be buying the whole set of them soon, Star Wars IV is far more dated than I remember (i guess it has been ~15 years since I last saw it), Batman and Batman Returns are slightly dated, but the incredible directing of Tim Burton makes them incredible nonetheless.
I have barely had time to do any real work even though I have been back for two days. Blue Fusion is taking up a lot of my time at the moment. On Thursday week we will be setting up for the event to run, so that leaves little time to finish everything off. Expect lots of posts about Blue Fusion after then as I will try to describe the activities we are running.
I just wish I had more time in the day so I could catch up with all the blogs I neglected to read on my week off.
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