Icons in IBM MQ Explorer
IBM® MQ Explorer uses icons to represent the different objects, such as queue managers, queues, and channels.
IBM MQ Explorer alters the icons slightly to indicate the status of the objects, for example, running or stopped.
The tables on this page list the following types of icons:
Status icons in IBM MQ Explorer
The following table lists the status icons that are superimposed on to IBM MQ object icons in IBM MQ Explorer to indicate the status of the object. To investigate the cause of an object being in an Alert or Warning state, look at the status of the current object.
Icon | Meaning |
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Up. The object is running. | |
Down. The object is not running. | |
Alert. The status of the object is indeterminate; for example, the object is in the process of stopping or starting. | |
Warning. The object is having problems connecting. On queue managers in the Full Repository and Partial Repository folders, this icon means that the queue manager is suspended from the cluster. |
Queue managers
The following table lists the icons that are used in IBM MQ Explorer to represent queue managers.
The queue manager icon is yellow when IBM MQ Explorer is connected to a queue manager; when it is not connected, the icon is gray. Local queue managers are marked with an Up or Down icon to show whether the queue manager is running or stopped.
Icon | Queue manager local or remote to Explorer? | Explorer connected? | Queue manager status |
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Local | Yes | Running | |
Local | No | Running | |
Local | No | Running as standby | |
Local | No | Stopped | |
Remote | Yes | Running | |
Remote | No | Unknown |
Queue manager instances
Display queue manager instance status by selecting a remote queue manager in the navigator and clicking Connection details > Manage instances.
Icon | Connection status text | Explanation |
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Connected | The IBM MQ Explorer is connected and the queue manager is running. | |
Not connected | The IBM MQ Explorer has not attempted to connect to the queue manager instance. Click Test connections to update the status of the connection. | |
Not connection | The instance is running as a standby. | |
Not available | One of three reasons:
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Different name | The queue manager instance listening on the IP address configured for the connection has a different queue manager name. | |
Different UUID | The queue manager instance listening on this IP address has a different UUID.
The problem might be because the listener is connected to a different queue manager with the same name, rather than another instance of the same queue manager. It might also be because the remote queue manager has been deleted and re-created with the same name. It is no longer the same queue manager. |
Queues
The following table lists the icons that are use in IBM MQ Explorer to represent queues.
Icon | Meaning |
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Local | |
Local queue that is shared in a cluster | |
Model | |
Remote queue definition | |
Remote queue definition of a queue that is shared in a cluster | |
Alias | |
Alias queue that is shared in a cluster | |
Transmission |
Channels
The following table lists the icons that are used in IBM MQ Explorer to represent channels.
Icon | Meaning |
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Sender | |
Server | |
Receiver | |
Requester | |
Server-connection | |
Client-connection | |
Cluster-sender | |
Cluster-receiver |
Other IBM MQ objects
The following table lists the icons that are used in IBM MQ Explorer to represent other IBM MQ objects.
Custom services can be in either running, stopped, alert, or warning states.
Icon | Meaning |
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Topic | |
Subscription | |
Listener | |
Authentication information object | |
Namelist | |
Process definition | |
Message | |
Custom service | |
Application connection |
Queue manager clusters
The following table lists the icons that are used in IBM MQ Explorer to represent clusters.
Icon | Meaning |
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Cluster | |
Cluster without a source provider | |
Full repository | |
Full repository suspended from the cluster | |
Full repository disconnected | |
Partial repository | |
Partial repository suspended from the cluster | |
Partial repository disconnected | |
Cluster-receiver channel | |
Cluster-sender channel | |
Local queue that is shared in a cluster | |
Remote queue definition of a queue that is shared in a cluster | |
The number indicates the number of cluster queues in the cluster. | |
The number indicates the number of instances of cluster-sender channels between the two queue managers. | |
The number indicates the number of instances of cluster-receiver channels on the queue manager. |
Queue-sharing groups
The following table lists the icons that are used in IBM MQ Explorer to represent queue sharing groups. The channels can be in either running, stopped, alert, or warning states.
Icon | Meaning |
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Queue sharing group | |
QSG authentication information object | |
QSG local queue | |
QSG model queue | |
QSG namelist | |
QSG process definition | |
QSG alias queue | |
QSG receiver channel | |
QSG remote queue definition | |
QSG requester channel | |
QSG sender channel | |
QSG server channel | |
QSG server-connection channel | |
QSG transmission queue |
API Exits
The following table lists the icons that are used in IBM MQ Explorer to represent API exits.
Icon | Meaning |
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Common | |
Template | |
Local |
JMS objects
The following table lists the icons that are used in IBM MQ Explorer to represent JMS objects in the JNDI namespace.
Header | Header |
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Initial context; connected | |
Initial context; disconnected | |
Connection factory for MQ connections | |
Connection factory for realtime connections | |
Destination object for a queue | |
Destination object for a topic | |
Subcontext; connected | |
Subcontext; disconnected | |
Corrupted JNDI object |