IBM MQ cookbook

The IBM MQ cookbook is a library cookbook that provides custom resources for use in your own recipes. This cookbook is currently experimental, therefore we recommend that if you want to use this cookbook, that you either pin the version you use, or create your own fork first.

Requirements

• Chef 12.6+
• Network accessible web server hosting the MQ installer package

Platform Support

The following platforms have been tested with Test Kitchen:

• Ubuntu 14.04

Cookbook Dependencies

• limits
• yum

Usage

1. Add depends 'ibm_mq' to your cookbook's metadata.rb
2. Use the resources shipped in cookbook in a recipe, the same way you'd use core Chef resources (file, template, directory, package, etc).

ibm_mq_installation 'Installation1' do
  source 'http://10.0.2.15:8000/WS_MQ_V8.0.0.4_LINUX_ON_X86_64_IM.tar.gz'
  accept_license true
  primary true
end

ibm_mq_queue_manager 'qm1' do
  action [:create, :start]
end

Resources

ibm_mq_installation

The ibm_mq_installation resource downloads an IBM MQ download package file, specified by a URI.

Example

ibm_mq_installation 'Installation1' do
  source 'http://10.0.2.15:8000/WS_MQ_V8.0.0.4_LINUX_ON_X86_64_IM.tar.gz'
  accept_license true
  primary true
  action :create
end

Properties

• source - Path to network accessible IBM MQ installation package.
• accept_license - Set this to true if you accept the terms of the IBM MQ license.
• primary - Set this to true to make this the primary MQ installation. Currently not supported to set this to false.
• packages - An array of package names to install. Defaults to: %w(MQSeriesServer MQSeriesGSKit)
• uid - The UID to use for the mqm user
• gid - The GID to use for the mqm user

ibm_mq_queue_manager

The ibm_mq_queue_manager resource creates and starts IBM MQ queue managers.

Example

ibm_mq_queue_manager 'qm1' do
  action [:create, :start]
end

Properties

• user - User to run MQ commands as. Defaults to mqm

Maintainers

• Arthur Barr (arthur.barr@uk.ibm.com)

Developing

If you do submit a Pull Request related to this cookbook, please indicate in the Pull Request that you accept and agree to be bound by the terms of the IBM Contributor License Agreement.

In order to run the Test-Kitchen tests, you need to set an environment variable for the MQ download. For example, on Linux, you might do the following:

export MQ_URI=http://10.0.2.15:8000/WS_MQ_V8.0.0.4_LINUX_ON_X86_64_IM.tar.gz

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.