Table of Contents

• Overview
• Experience the Power of Puppet for IBM MQ
• License
• Description
• Setup
  • Requirements
  • Installing the mq_install module
• Usage
• Reference
• Limitations

Overview

This module allows you to install IBM MQ messaging software. It is part of our family of Puppet modules to install and manage IBM messaging middleware. Besides the mq_install module, this family also contains:

• mq_config to configure and manage the MQ software
• iib_config to manage and configure IBM Integration Bus software
• iib_install to install IBM Integration Bus software

Experience the Power of Puppet for IBM MQ

Installing IBM MQ software and managing your IBM MQ configuration can be hard. With Puppet at your side, you get super-powers when installing and managing IBM MQ. If you want to play and experiment with this please take a look at our playgrounds.

License

This is a commercially licensed module. But you can use the module on VirtualBox based development systems for FREE. You can request a FREE trial license here

Check the License for details.

Description

Our mq_install module allows you to install your IBM MQ software on your systems. It automatically configures your OS, creates required users and groups, unpacks the files and registers the license.

This module is best used together withe the enterprisemodules::ibm_profile module.

Here is an example of how to use this:

include mq_install::software

Check here to see the full documentation for this module.

Setup

Requirements

The mq_install module requires:

• Puppet module enterprisemodules-easy_type installed.
• Puppet version 4.9 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 to use this module by Enterprise Modules.
• Runs on most Linux systems, Solaris, AIX and Windows.

Installing the mq_install module

To install these modules, you can use a Puppetfile

mod 'enterprisemodules/mq_install'               ,'x.x.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_install

Usage

Building a total MQ setup requires quite some work. To help you, we have built some examples:

• MQ only example
• MQ and IIB example

These repositories 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:

• The MQ install documentation
• The product announcement

Here is a list of related blog posts:

• Introducing the IBM MQ Puppet module

Some example code:

• Simple MQ demo
• MQ and IIB demo

Limitations

This module runs most Linux versions, Solaris, AIX, and Windows systems. It requires a puppet version higher than 4. Contact us if you need to run this module on other flavors of UNIX. We can work together with you to make it work.