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WebSphere Message Broker Explorer
The WebSphere® Message Broker Explorer is a graphical user interface based on the Eclipse platform for administering your brokers.
The WebSphere Message Broker Explorer is an extension to the WebSphere MQ Explorer.
You can install the WebSphere Message Broker Explorer only on Windows and Linux on x86. You can view and interact only with brokers that you have created in WebSphere Message Broker Version 7.0 or later.
The WebSphere Message Broker Explorer
- Use the Brokers folder to create, view, and modify brokers
- Use the Broker Archive Files folder to import, view, and modify BAR files before deploying them to your brokers
If you cannot see these two folders in your MQ Explorer session, you have not installed the plug-ins that are specific to the WebSphere Message Broker, which are provided by WebSphere Message Broker Explorer. Close your MQ Explorer session, follow the instructions to install the WebSphere Message Broker Explorer, then start the MQ Explorer again.
The WebSphere Message Broker Explorer provides several QuickViews that you can use to view the properties of brokers and their resources. These QuickViews are automatically displayed when you click the resource in the Brokers folder in the MQ Explorer - Navigator view. A QuickView is also available for viewing the details of BAR files that you have imported into the WebSphere Message Broker Explorer.
The following figure shows the QuickViews that are displayed when a broker is selected in the WebSphere Message Broker Explorer.

- Broker Archive editor
- Use the Broker Archive editor to create and manage broker archive (BAR) files.
- Broker Statistics and Broker Statistics Graph views
- Use the Broker Statistics and Broker Statistics Graph views to view snapshot accounting and statistics data as it is produced by the broker.
- Policy Sets and Policy Set Bindings editor
- Use the Policy Sets and Policy Set Bindings editor to edit, save, import, and export policy sets or bindings.
- Security Profiles editor
- Use the Security Profiles editor to create a security profile for use with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) or Tivoli® Federated Identity Manager (TFIM).
- DataPower® Security wizard
- Use the DataPower Security wizard to configure an external DataPower appliance to handle the WS-Security Policy for your HTTP, HTTPS, and SOAP nodes within your message flow.
- Administration Log view
- Use the Administration Log view to view the results of deployment actions on brokers.
- Activity Log view
- Use the Activity Log view to view recent activities affecting your message flows, and related external resources.
Accessing context-sensitive help
The Help view provides context-sensitive help throughout the WebSphere Message Broker Explorer. You can display the Help view for most aspects of the user interface by bringing focus to the object and pressing F1 (on Windows) or SHIFT+F1 (on Linux). The Related Topics page shows description and help topics that are related to the selected object.
The following figure shows the Related Topics page of the Help view that is displayed when you press F1 when the Brokers folder is selected in the WebSphere Message Broker Explorer.
Use the other pages in the Help view to view and search the contents of the information center. The All Topics page shows the table of contents of all the books in the information center. The Index provides an index of keywords of all the books in the information center. You can enter a keyword in the text field on the Index page to highlight the best match in the list of keywords. You can use the Search page to locate topics, samples, and remote documents using keywords in a search query. You can bookmark topics and other documents of interest, and view them in the Bookmarks page.