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WebSphere Message Broker Explorer views
The WebSphere® Message Broker Explorer can be used to manage and administer your brokers and deployed resources.
The WebSphere Message Broker Explorer is an extension of the WebSphere MQ Explorer.
- Setting up your brokers, including:
- Adding and removing execution groups
- Editing and deploying broker archive (BAR) files
- Viewing the results of deployment and other activity in the Administration log
- Viewing and editing broker properties
- Viewing and editing security profiles and policy sets
- Viewing and editing configurable properties
- Viewing message flow accounting and statistics data
- Viewing Activity logs for message flows and resource types
The WebSphere Message Broker Explorer provides several views that you can use to browse and update your broker resources.
If you cannot see the Brokers folder and Broker Archive Files folder in your MQ Explorer session, you have not installed the plug-ins specific to WebSphere Message Broker that are provided by WebSphere Message Broker Explorer. Close your WebSphere MQ Explorer session, follow the instructions to install the WebSphere Message Broker Explorer, then start the WebSphere MQ Explorer again.
Navigator view
The icons shown in the Navigator view indicate the status of the WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker objects.
Right-click the Brokers folder to create brokers and view existing broker resources. Right-click brokers, execution groups, and other WebSphere Message Broker objects to perform configuration and administration tasks.
Right-click the Broker Archive Files folder to view and deploy broker archive files to your brokers.
When you click a WebSphere MQ or WebSphere Message Broker object in the Navigator view, properties associated with the object are shown in the Content view.
Content view
Broker Statistics and Broker Statistics Graph views
Policy Sets and Policy Set Bindings editor
Security Profiles editor
DataPower Security wizard
Activity Log view
For more information about Activity Logs, see Using Activity logs. For more information about the Activity Log view, see Working with Activity log content.
Administration Log view
The Administration Log view shows administration log information for the broker selected in the Navigator view. The messages in the Administration log show the results from deployment or other actions you have performed on the broker. Double-click individual messages to read the full content of the messages in the Administration Log view.
You can save the messages from the Administration log, or permanently remove the administration log information messages.
For more information about the Administration Log view, see Administration Log view.