eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by WsMqChannelTest

This test connects to a WebSphere MQ server, auto-discovers the channels that have been configured for this server, and monitors the status of each of these channels.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Availability Reports the current availability of a channel Percent A value of 100% signifies that the channel is available for clients to connect to. A value of 0% indicates channel unavailability.
Current_messages The number of messages being currently handled by the channel Number A continuous increase of this value signifies that the receiver is not able to cope up with the incoming traffic.
Messages_handled The number of messages that transmitted through the channel during the last measurement period Number  
Buffers_received The number of buffers of data received over the channel during the last measurement period Number This metric indicates the workload over a channel.
Buffers_sent Indicates the number of buffers of data transmitted over the channel during the last measurement period Number This metric indicates the workload over a channel.
Data_received Indicates the rate at which data is received over the channel during the last measurement period KB/sec  
Data_sent Indicates the rate at which data is transmitted over the channel during the last measurement period KB/sec  
Time_since_last_msg Reflects the time that has elapsed since the last message was transmitted over this channel Secs If an unusually long time has elapsed since when the last message was transmitted, it could reflect an error in the application (e.g., a hung application that is no longer transmitting messages over the channel).
Channel_status Reports the current state of the channel.   The table below indicates the values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric equivalents:

Numeric Value Measure Value
0 Running
1 Stopping
2 Paused
3 requesting
4 Initializing
5 Binding
6 Inactive
7 Starting
8 Retrying
9 Stopped

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned Measure Values while indicating the current status of the channel. However, in the graph of this measure, the channel states will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents as mentioned in the table above.