IBM MQ Explorer Navigator view
The Navigator view in IBM® MQ Explorer displays all of the IBM MQ objects that you can administer and monitor in IBM MQ Explorer.
The types of objects that you can administer and monitor in the Navigator view include objects that are on other computers and on other platforms, such as AIX®, Linux®, and z/OS®.
Objects and folders in the Navigator view
The Navigator view contains a hierarchy of objects and folders that contain the queue managers and their objects. The following table contains descriptions of the objects and folders that are shown in the Navigator view.
Object or folder | Purpose of the object or folder | Tasks that you can perform | Links to more information |
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IBM MQ | The IBM MQ object is the root of the folder hierarchy and represents the installation of IBM MQ on the computer. | Right-click the IBM MQ object to perform tasks that affect the whole of IBM MQ on the local computer, such as configuring IBM MQ properties, starting trace, or managing TLS certificates. | Configuring IBM MQ |
Queue Managers | The Queue Managers folder contains all of the queue managers that are on the local computer unless you have hidden them. You can also add remote queue managers, including z/OS queue managers. You can administer and monitor any queue manager using IBM MQ as long as it is shown in the Queue Managers folder. | Click the Queue Managers folder to list the queue managers, and their attributes, in the Content view. Right-click the Queue Managers folder to perform tasks such as creating a new queue manager, or adding a remote queue manager to IBM MQ Explorer. | Queue managers |
A queue manager | Each queue manager that is shown in the Queue Managers folder is represented by a queue manager object icon in the hierarchy. The objects that belong to a queue manager are organized in folders under that queue manager. | Click the queue manager to display an overview of the queue manager's attributes in the Content view. Right-click the queue manager to perform tasks such as starting and stopping the queue manager, or configuring the queue manager's properties. Expand the queue manager to display the folders that contain the queue manager's objects. | Queue managers |
Queues | The Queues folder contains all of the queues that are defined on the queue manager. | Click the Queues folder to list the queue manager's queues in the Content view. Right-click the Queues folder to perform tasks such as creating a new queue. | Queues |
Channels | The Channels folder contains all of the channels that are defined on the queue manager except for the client-connection channels. | Click the Channels folder to list the queue manager's channels in the Content view. Right-click the Channels folder to perform tasks such as creating new channels. | Channels |
Client Connections | The Client Connections folder contains all of the client-connection channels that are defined on the queue manager. | Click the Client Connections folder to list the queue manager's client-connection channels in the Content view. Right-click the Client Connections folder to perform tasks such as creating a new client-connection channel. | Channels |
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Process Definitions | The Process Definitions folder contains all of the process definitions that are defined on the queue manager. A process definition contains the details of an application that starts in response to a trigger event on a queue manager. | Click the Process Definitions folder to list the process definitions in the Content view. Right-click the Process Definitions folder to perform tasks such as creating a new process definition. | Process definitions |
Namelists | The Namelists folder contains all of the namelists that are defined on the queue manager. A namelist is a list of the names of other MQ objects. | Click the Namelists folder to list the namelists in the Content view. Right-click the Namelists folder to perform tasks such as creating a new namelist. | Namelists |
Authentication Information | The Authentication Information folder
contains all of the authentication information objects that are defined
on the queue manager. There are two types of authentication objects:
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Click the Authentication Information folder to list the authentication information objects in the Content view. Right-click the Authentication Information folder to perform tasks such as creating a new authentication object. | Authentication information |
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the queue sharing group. All of the queue managers in the queue sharing group can put and get from the shared queues without needing channels.
The Shared Queues folder
is available only on z/OS queue
managers. |
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![]() Group , which means that all
the queue managers in the queue sharing group have a copy of the objects.
The objects that are in folders in the Group
Definitions folder are a subset of the objects that belong
to the z/OS queue manager.
You cannot hide the Group Definitions folder.
The Group Definitions folder
is available only on z/OS queue
managers. |
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Queue Manager Clusters | The Queue Manager Clusters folder contains all of the clusters that IBM MQ Explorer knows about. IBM MQ Explorer knows about clusters that belong to queue managers in the Queue Managers folder. The Queue Manager Clusters folder is available only when a queue manager in the Queue Managers folder belongs to a cluster. | Click the Queue Manager Clusters folder to list the clusters in the Content view. Right-click the Queue Manager Clusters folder to perform tasks such as creating a new queue manager cluster. | Queue manager clusters |
A cluster | Each queue manager cluster that is shown in the Queue Manager Clusters folder is represented by a node in the hierarchy. The queue managers that belong to the cluster are shown in folders in the Queue Manager Clusters folder. Queue manager clusters are available to administer in IBM MQ Explorer only when a queue manager in the Queue Managers folder belongs to a cluster. | Click the queue manager cluster to view information about it. Right-click the queue manager cluster to perform tasks such as adding queue managers to it. | Queue manager clusters |
Full Repositories | The Full Repositories folder contains all of the queue managers that host full repositories of the cluster. The queue managers in the Full Repositories folder store a complete, up-to-date set of information about the cluster. The Full Repositories folder is available only when a queue manager in the Queue Managers folder belongs to a cluster. | Click the Full Repositories folder to list the queue managers that host full repositories for the cluster in the Content view. Right-click the Full Repositories folder to add another queue manager that hosts a full repository to the cluster. | Queue manager clusters |
A queue manager that hosts a full repository | Each queue manager that hosts a full repository for the cluster is represented by a node in the hierarchy. The queue managers in the Full Repositories folder store a complete, up-to-date set of information about the cluster. | Click the queue manager to list the cluster queues and cluster channels that are available on the queue managers. Right-click the queue manager to perform tasks such as removing the queue manager from the cluster, or share the queue manager's queues in the cluster. | Queue manager clusters |
Partial Repositories | The Partial Repositories folder contains all of the queue managers that host partial repositories of the cluster. The queue managers in the Partial Repositories folder store only information about objects in the cluster that those queue managers need to used. | Click the Partial Repositories folder to list the queue managers that host partial repositories for the cluster in the Content view. Right-click the Partial Repositories folder to add another queue manager that hosts a partial repository to the cluster. | Queue manager clusters |
A queue manager that hosts a partial repository | Each queue manager that hosts a partial repository for the cluster is represented by a node in the hierarchy. The queue managers in the Partial Repositories folder store only information about objects in the cluster that those queue managers need to used. | Click the queue manager to list the cluster queues and cluster channels that are available on the queue managers. Right-click the queue manager to perform tasks such as removing the queue manager from the cluster, or share the queue manager's queues in the cluster. | Queue manager clusters |
Depending on which other plug-ins you have installed and enabled for IBM MQ Explorer, the Navigator view might contain other folders and objects.