
Install IBM App Connect Enterprise 11 on Red Hat Linux by creating a dedicated user and group, configuring permissions, and installing the broker and integration node.
Learn to uninstall ACE11 on Red Hat Linux by stopping the integration server, deleting the integration broker and node, and cleaning up installation and configuration files.
Install IBM MQ on Red Hat Linux by downloading, unzipping, installing with yum, accepting the license, creating and starting a queue manager, and defining a local queue.
Learn to uninstall IBM MQ from Red Hat Linux by stopping the queue manager, removing MQ packages with rpm, and cleaning installation folders to prepare a fresh install.
Uninstall ACE 11 from Windows via control panel and programs and features, then verify installation location, work directory, toolkit workspace, and toolkit configuration folders.
Install IBM MQ 9.4 server and MQ Explorer on Windows, configure MUSR_MQ admin user, MQM group, and password, and create a queue manager with MQ Explorer.
Explore how to configure integration development preferences, including vault settings, integration server vaults, REST API, flow exerciser, and the message flow editor for managing vaults and flows.
Access the ACE web UI to manage integration servers, deploy and control applications and bar files, monitor resources and performance, and start or stop user and service traces.
Explore managing threads and multithreading in the web ui, adjusting thread pool capacity, additional instances, and start options to balance throughput and memory.
Configure multi-threading for ACE message flows by increasing additional instances to create a dynamic thread pool, enabling parallel processing for IO-bound workloads, via bar file or web UI.
Learn to view admin logs in the web UI for the integration node and server, including start/stop actions and REST requests with API v2 paths and their status codes.
View the activity log to trace message flow transactions, using the http input node, activity log manager, and endpoints to fetch, export, and compare flow details and statistics.
IBM App Connect Enterprise is a tool for managing integration nodes and servers.
It focuses on secure setups and flexible system organization. First, download the installation package from the IBM website and review it. Then install the package.
Then, create integration nodes. These nodes control one or more integration servers.
You can also set up external directory vaults. These vaults safely store passwords and other sensitive information.
Configuration files let you change settings for nodes and servers.
You can run ACE in different ways.
A simple setup uses one node.
More complex setups use several nodes.
You can also mix local servers with cloud servers. Three important ports are used:
The RestAdminListener port gives access to the administration API.
The NodeHttpListener port handles HTTP requests for flows and admin tasks.
A debug port helps developers find and fix problems in message flows.
Security uses SSL/TLS. ACE comes with a default self-signed certificate. You can trust this certificate by adding it to your trust store. Or you can replace it with your own certificate.
For stronger security, you can turn on mutual TLS (mTLS). This makes both the client and the server check each other’s certificates.
The following features are explained practically to understand ACE administration.
Details about Toolkit
Integration Node & port configuration
SSL configuration for Integration Node
Integration server - Port configuration
Web User Interface (Web UI)
WebUI Security
Independent Integration Server
Create Integration Server in Docker Container
Global cache configuration.
JDBC provider policy to connect to the database.
User-Defined policy to add our own properties and values.
Record & Replay Mechanism.
WebUI security administration - file-based and queue-based.
Different ways to create nodes and integration servers.
Enabling User trace and service trace.
Configuring flow monitoring.
Also, the course contains the installation procedures for ACE 13, ACE 11, and IBM MQ on Windows and Linux. The Basics of IBM MQ administration are included in the course.