DiscoverAndSubscribe does all the work of finding the different resources available from a queue manager and issuing the MQSUB calls to collect the data */.

EndConnection tidies up by closing the queues and disconnecting.

InitConnection connects to the queue manager, and then opens both the command queue and a dynamic reply queue to be used for all responses including the publications */.

InitConnectionStats is the same as InitConnection with the addition of a call to open the queue manager statistics queue.

Normalise converts the value returned from MQ into the correct units such as converting MB to bytes.

ProcessPublications has to read all of the messages since the last scrape and update the values for every relevant gauge.

ReadPatterns is called during the initial configuration step to read a file containing object name patterns if they are not explicitly given on the command line.

QMgrMapKey can never be a real object name and is therefore useful in maps that may contain only this single entry.

Metrics is the global variable for the tree of data.

The AllMetrics structure is the top of the tree, holding the set of classes.

MonClass described the "classes" of data generated by MQ, such as DISK and CPU.

MonElement describes the real metric element generated by MQ.

MonType describes the "types" of data generated by MQ.