Getting Started
Frequently Asked Questions
- Browse FAQs by category
- Can I send the password in plain text or should it be encrypted? When adding a queue manager or broker remote definition via WGS Rest API
- How to validate whether my WGS is running & which logs help understand the situation.
- nsqcirclog Utility
- What is the Workgroup Server Cache?
- Understanding the refresh intervals at which kafka objects gets updated.
Dashboards
- What are Dashboards?
- Dashboard structure
- Adding workgroup server connections
- Create new dashboards
- How to change the dashboard order
- Viewing additional dashboards
Viewlets
- Adding a viewlet to your dashboard
- Filtering objects in a viewlet (Attribute Filters)
- Attribute filter variables
- Setting up custom attributes
- Schemas in Manage
- Viewlet Action/Selected Menus and Project field
Favorite Objects Viewlets
Viewlets by Product
- EMS Viewlets
- EMS Scripts Console
- Manage options of EMS Queue Manager
- Manage EMS ACLs
- IBM MQ Viewlets
- Collecting IBM statistics data
Toolbar Options
Settings
- Settings window
- User Settings
- Message Commands Tab
- Load Messages
- Save Messages
- Configuring viewlet and workgroup server colors
Messages
- View messages
- Add New Kafka Messages to Topics and Partitions
- Kafka Message Offsets
- Add New IBM MQ Messages to Queues
- Add New Messages (Solace, RabbitMQ, and TIBCO EMS)
- Load Messages from a File or Shared Storage
Filtering Messages
Nodes
Queue Managers, Remote Manager Connections & Clusters
- Create Queue Manager
- Map MQSC command keywords to queue manager properties
- Managing Connections for Remote Managers
- Create Remote Queue Manager
- Verify a remote manager connection
- CONN_USED metric published for managers
Create Queues and Objects
- Create an Object (Select Object Path)
- Create a Queue
- Map MQSC command keywords to local queue properties
- Create a Process
- Map MQSC Command Keywords to Process Properties
- Create an IBM MQ topic
RabbitMQ
- Change RabbitMQ Server Cluster Name
- Create RabbitMQ virtual host
- Create RabbitMQ Exchange
- Create RabbitMQ Queue
- Create RabbitMQ Users
- Create RabbitMQ component
Commands
- Starting and Stopping WMQ Objects (Nodes)
- Starting and Stopping WMQ Objects (Queue Managers)
- Security (Queue Managers, MQ Queues, Topics)
- View Error Log (Queue Manager)
- Connections (Queue Manager)
- Allow or Inhibit Get and Put Messages
Object Attributes & Events
Channels
- Channel Authentication Record
- Copy Channel Authentication Records
- Map MQSC Command Keywords to Channel Authentication Record Properties
- Create a Channel
- Map MQSC Command Keywords to Channel Properties
- Start Channel
Nsqmigr utility
- Nsqmigr utility
- Exporting / importing workgroup server databases with nsqmigr
- Importing / exporting remote queue managers with nsqmigr
- Importing / exporting remote EMS servers with nsqmigr
- Importing / exporting remote Kafka clusters with nsqmigr
- Importing / exporting remote Solace brokers with nsqmigr
Recommended Reading
- Navigator Documentation Library
- Controlling Reading and Writing of Management Configuration Data
- Working with the Management Database
- Navigator 10.5.0 Highlights
- Navigator User’s Guide
- Navigator Workgroup Server Expert V10 Installation Guide
Reference
- Remote Queue Manager Connection Config tab: SSL Connections Example
- Remote Kafka Manager Connection Config tab: SSL Connections Example
- What are the databases used by the management applications?
- User Settings field descriptions
- Queue Manager field descriptions
- Remote queue manager field descriptions