Configuring the Management and Deployment of the Connector for IBM MQ

You can configure how management and deployment details of the Connector for IBM MQ. You can choose to use a centralized configuration source for the connector using PubSub+ Connector Manager for PubSub+ Self-Managed Connectors or configure the source locally.

As part of configuring the deployment, you can configure the redundancy (referred to as leadership election, managing metrics, monitoring the heath of the connector, and deployment aspects such as Spring profiles, external libraries, and the consumption of object messages. For information about configuring:

• Managing and monitoring the state of the connector, see Managing and Monitoring the Connector.
• The status via the Spring Boot Actuator health endpoint, see Health.
• Redundancy of the connector, see Redundancy Configuration.
• Custom workflow management endpoint using Spring Actuator, see Workflow Management.
• Metrics for monitoring using Spring Boot Metrics and leverages Micrometer to manage the metrics, see Managing Metrics.
• Securing web endpoints, communication, authentication and authorization, see Security.
• Access to classes that define object payloads, see Consuming Object Messages.
• Access to external libraries, see Adding External Libraries.
• Configuration of the connector locally, see Connector Configuration.
• Message processing of the connector without publish acknowledgment, see Asynchronous Publishing.