Version information
This version is compatible with:
- Puppet Enterprise 2025.3.x, 2025.2.x, 2025.1.x, 2023.8.x, 2023.7.x, 2023.6.x, 2023.5.x, 2023.4.x, 2023.3.x, 2023.2.x, 2023.1.x, 2023.0.x, 2021.7.x, 2021.6.x, 2021.5.x, 2021.4.x, 2021.3.x, 2021.2.x, 2021.1.x, 2021.0.x, 2019.8.x, 2019.7.x, 2019.5.x, 2019.4.x, 2019.3.x, 2019.2.x, 2019.1.x, 2019.0.x, 2018.1.x, 2017.3.x, 2017.2.x, 2017.1.x, 2016.5.x, 2016.4.x
- Puppet >=2.7.20
- , , , , , , ,
Tasks:
- manager
- queue
- topic
Start using this module
Add this module to your Puppetfile:
mod 'enterprisemodules-mq_config', '1.0.13'
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Table of Contents
- Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
- Reference - An under-the-hood peek at what the module is doing and how
- Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
Overview
This module allows you to configure and manage IBM MQ messaging software. It is part of our family of Puppet modules to install and manage IBM messaging middleware. Besides the mq_config
module, this family also contains:
mq_install
to install the MQ softwareiib_config
to manage and configure IBM Integration Bus softwareiib_install
to install IBM Integration Bus software
License
This is a commercially licensed module. But you can use the module on VirtualBox based development systems for FREE. When used on real systems a license is required.
You can license our modules in multiple ways. Our basic licensing model requires a subscription per node. But contact us for details.
Check the License for details.
Description
Our mq_config
module allows you to configure and manage almost everything you'd want to manage on of an IBM MQ installation. The module allows you to manage:
Check here to see the full documentation for this module.
Setup
Requirements
The mq_config
module requires:
- Puppet module
enterprisemodules-easy_type
installed. - Puppet version 4.0 or higher. Can be Puppet Enterprise or Puppet Open Source
- IBM MQ 8 or 9 installation.
- A valid License from IBM to use this software.
- A valid entitlement for usage of this module by Enterprise Modules.
- Runs on most Linux systems.
- Windows systems are NOT supported
Installing the mq_config module
To install these modules, you can use a Puppetfile
mod 'enterprisemodules/mq_config' ,'1.0.x'
Then use the librarian-puppet
or r10K
to install the software.
You can also install the software using the puppet module
command:
puppet module install enterprisemodules-mq_config
Usage
Building a total MQ setup requires quite some work. To help you, we have built some examples:
Thes repos contain examples of how you can install and configure a basic MQ setup.
Reference
Here you can find some more information regarding this puppet module:
Here is a list of related blog posts:
Some example code:
Limitations
This module runs most Linux versions. It requires a puppet version higher than 4. The module does NOT run on windows systems. Contact us of you need to run this module on other flovors of UNIX. We can work together with you to make it work.
What are tasks?
Modules can contain tasks that take action outside of a desired state managed by Puppet. It’s perfect for troubleshooting or deploying one-off changes, distributing scripts to run across your infrastructure, or automating changes that need to happen in a particular order as part of an application deployment.
Tasks in this module release
Types in this module release
History
07-07-2018 Version 1.0.13
- [mq_manager] fix datapath implementation
04-07-2018 Version 1.0.12
- [mq_manager] Add support for multi-instance queue managers
27-06-2018 Version 1.0.11
- [core] Change the mq_authorization type to fetch properly
- [mq_authorization] Fix bug when no authorities are found
- [mq_channel] Fix typo in acceptance test description
- [release] Better description in the metadata
09-02-2018 Version 1.0.10
- [tasks] Add first set of tasks for often used resources
- [mq_manager] Fix documentation
- [release] Fix link to license in readme
26-01-2018 Version 1.0.9
- [release] Added license notice
26-01-2018 Version 1.0.8
- [release] Add license text and readme
- [docs] Update documentation
09-01-2018 Version 1.0.7
- [mq_listener] Add status field for starting and stopping
- [mq_authentication_info] Fix some property data types
- [mq_listener] Add case sensitivity to desc property
- [mq_channel] Add extra checks on valid combinations of properties
- [mq_channel] Fix some properties
- [mq_topic] Fix some properties
- [mq_topic] Fix some properties and updating of topics
- [mq_manager] Fix validation and case sensitivity of multiple properties
05-01-2018 Version 1.0.6
- [mq_authorization] Allow authority with value [none]
- [mq_listener] Fix creation error’s
03-01-2018 Version 1.0.5
- [mq_topic] Add check for required property topicstr
- [mq_channel] Add check for required property chltype
- [mq_queue] Add check on required property qtype
- [mq_listener] Initial implementation
- [mq_authorization] Check and reject usage of generic authorities
- [mq_authorization] Fix error when managing queue manager
- [mq_authorization] Fix setting when wildcard definition
- [mq_channel] Remove non US-ASCII character
28-12-2017 Version 1.0.4
- [mq_authorization] Quote object names
- [mq_authentication_info] Initial implementation
- [mq_authorization] Initial implementation
06-11-2017 Version 1.0.3
- [core] Don’t cd to current_working directory when executing cmd
13-09-2017 Version 1.0.2
- [core] Fix encoding to utf8
14-07-2017 Version 1.0.1
- [core] use mqm instead of mquser
19-05-2017 Version 1.0.0
- Initial release
Dependencies
- enterprisemodules/easy_type (>= 2.3.14 < 2.4.0)
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