Chapter 5. Automating administration tasks

This chapter assumes that you have experience of administering WebSphere MQ objects.

You might decide that it would be beneficial to your installation to automate some administration and monitoring tasks. You can automate administration tasks for both local and remote queue managers using programmable command format (PCF) commands.

This chapter describes:

• How to use programmable command formats to automate administration tasks in PCF commands
• How to use the command server in "Managing the command server for remote administration"
• Support for Microsoft's Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) in Active Directory Services Interfaces