Fuse MQ Enterprise provides many ways to manage and administer a messaging system. Some of these are built into the broker. Others are add-ons that you can download separately.
Act as administrative channels from which you can receive status on events taking place on the broker and on producers, consumers, and destinations in real time. They provide an alternative to JMX for discovering the running state of an active broker. Using Fuse MQ Enterprise advisory messages, you can monitor the messaging system using regular JMS messages, which are generated on system-defined topics. You can also use advisory messages to modify an application's behavior dynamically.
Fuse MQ Enterprise uses advisory messages internally to notify connections on the availability of temporary destinations and to notify a network of brokers on the availability of consumers.
All advisory topics, except message delivery, are enabled by default. To enable the message delivery advisory topic, you must configure it in the destination policy in the broker's configuration file.
For details, see ActiveMQ in Action (Snyder, Bosanac, and Davies).
Enabling a Command Agent on the broker, you can communicate with it directly to issue administrative queries and commands, such as listing available queues, topics, and subscriptions; or to view metadata, browse queues, and so on.
When enabled, the command agent listens to the ActiveMQ.Agent topic for
messages. It processes all commands that are submitted as JMS text messages and posts the
results back to ActiveMQ.Agent.
Fuse MQ Enterprise provides several plug-ins for visualizing broker components and for retrieving statistics collected on a running broker.
Authentication—Two plug-ins; one provides Simple authentication, and the other provides JAAS authentication.
Central timestamp—Updates the timestamp on messages as they arrive at the broker. Useful when clients' system clocks are out-of-sync with the broker's clock.
Enhanced logging—Enables you to log messages sent or acknowledged on the broker.
Statistics—Sends statistics about a running broker to the destination
ActiveMQ.Statistics.Brokerand statistics about a destination to the destinationActiveMQ.Statistics.Destination.<destination_name>.You retrieve these statistics by sending an empty message to their corresponding destination.
Visualization—Two plug-ins; each generates a graph file for different broker components, which you can display using several publicly available visualization tools.
The
connectionDotFilePlugingenerates graphs of the broker's connections and associated clients. ThedestinationDotFilePlugingenerates a graph of the destination hierarchies for all queues and topics in the broker.
For more information, see ActiveMQ in Action (Snyder, Bosanac, and Davies).
Fuse MQ Enterprise provides extensive support for monitoring and controlling the broker's behavior from a JMX console, such as jConsole.
For details, see Using JMX in Managing and Monitoring a Broker.
The Web console is a browser-based administration tool used to monitor the status of the broker. Combined with Fuse MQ Enterprise's JMX support, the Web Console displays the details about a broker, such as system usage, queues, topics and advisory messages, subscribers, connections and protocols, scheduled messages, delayed and scheduled deliveries, and so on.
For details, see Using the broker console in Managing and Monitoring a Broker.
Fuse Management Console does some cool centralized deployment and configuration stuff. It can also do some cool monitoring stuff.
For details, see the Fuse Management Console Documentation.
Fuse IDE is an integrated development environment tailored for developing and testing applications that use Fuse products. It uses Fuse MQ Enterprise's JMX data to provide detailed statistics for all of the broker's running as part of an application. It also provides tools to send messages to destinations and monitor their progress.
For details, see the Fuse IDE Documentation.
Fuse HQ is a web-based SOA management and monitoring system based on Hyperic HQ Enterprise. It takes advantage of Fuse MQ Enterprise's JMX-based reporting capabilities to provide real time administration and control of all runtime components.
For details, see the Fuse HQ Documentation.
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