System management interfaces

The brokers provide a service for independent system management agents.

This enables a central management facility to access information about any network that includes a WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker broker domain.

This support ensures that existing system management agents, such as those developed by Tivoli, can be extended to include WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker resources. You can find information about using the Tivoli interface with WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker in Installing Tivoli Ready support.

Tivoli support is not available on the HP-UX or z/OS platforms.

WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker brokers publish event messages, using fixed topics, in response to configuration changes, state changes, and user actions such as subscription registrations. WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker also uses architected messages to publish events related to the status, and change in status, of the brokers. These messages are published using the reserved topic root $SYS in code page 1208.

Start of changeAn example of a fixed topic is:
$SYS/Broker/<brokerName>/Status/ExecutionGroup/<executionGroupName>
So the topic structure is fixed in this case, but obviously <brokerName> and <executionGroupName> are replaced with the appropriate values.End of change
Start of changeAn example of the actual message data for this publication is:
<Broker uuid="12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012">
        <ExecutionGroup uuid="12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012">
                  <Stop>
                         <AllMessageFlows/>
                  </Stop>
        </ExecutionGroup>
</Broker>
End of change

A system management agent can subscribe to these topics, or to a subset of these topics, to receive the detailed information about activity and state changes in the WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker broker domain.

The event messages have a fixed structure, defined in XML (Extensible Markup Language). The format of these messages, constructed in XML, is detailed in The XML message body. The messages cover configuration changes, state changes, error notifications, and detailed subscription and topic information (for example, a subscription registration).

You can develop or purchase system management adapters or customized administrative applications. These subscribe to the system management topics generated by WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker to receive information on the broker domain activity.

Related concepts
Brokers
WebSphere MQ family and business integration
Related tasks
Installing Tivoli Ready support