Creating a Configuration Manager

Before you start:

You must complete the following tasks:
  • Ensure that your user ID has the correct authorizations to perform the task. Refer to Security requirements for administrative tasks.
  • Create and configure the configuration repository. Refer to Configuring component databases.
  • If you want to add a User Name Server to your broker domain, create the Configuration Manager with the additional -s parameter on the mqsicreateconfigmgr command. This parameter allows the Configuration Manager to communicate with the User Name Server. See Enabling a User Name Server for details of the -s parameter.

You create a Configuration Manager on Windows platforms only, using the command line. Create the Configuration Manager on the system where the Configuration Manager component is installed.

Use the mqsicreateconfigmgr command. The parameters on this command provide the Configuration Manager with all the additional information it requires to be ready for action as soon as it is started, including the identifiers for the configuration repository.

To create a Configuration Manager:

  1. Open a command prompt.
  2. Enter the following command to create the Configuration Manager:
    mqsicreateconfigmgr -i wbrkuid -a wbrkpw -q WBRK_QM
     -n WBRKCMDB -u wbrkuid -p wbrkpw
    If you are using different names or values for any parameter on this command, you must replace the appropriate values with your own.
    In the command above:
    wbrkuid
    is the service user ID used to run the Configuration Manager.
    wbrkpw
    Is the password for the service user ID.
    WBRK_QM
    Is the name of the WebSphere MQ queue manager that will host the Configuration Manager. This is created if it does not exist.
    WBRKCMDB
    Is the name of the configuration repository.
    wbrkuid
    is the database user ID for the Configuration Manager. This is the user ID that was used when the database instance was created.
    wbrkpw
    is the database password for the Configuration Manager. This is the password that was used when the database instance was created.
On completion of this task, you have:
  • Created a Configuration Manager and added its Windows service to the Services (viewable from the Control Panel).
  • Created and started a WebSphere MQ queue manager called WBRK_QM.
  • Created and set up the WebSphere MQ resources required by the Configuration Manager, and defined these on the queue manager. This includes the default dead-letter queue (DLQ), which is automatically enabled by running the mqsicreateconfigmgr command.
  • Set up the authorizations that the Configuration Manager requires to access WebSphere MQ resources.
  • Created and set up the database tables required by the Configuration Manager, in the configuration repository called WBRKCMDB.
  • Defined a database user ID wbrkuid, and database password wbrkpw.
Now that you have created the Configuration Manager, you are ready to:
  1. Create and start the WebSphere MQ queue manager channels that are required to connect WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker components (brokers, User Name Servers, and Configuration Manager). This allows components in your broker domain that are supported by different queue managers to exchange messages and communicate effectively. Refer to Connecting components.
  2. Create a broker domain connection using the workbench. Refer to Creating a domain connection.

Related concepts
Configuration Manager

Related tasks
Configuring component databases
Enabling a User Name Server
Connecting components
Creating a domain connection

Related reference
Security requirements for administrative tasks
mqsicreateconfigmgr command