The brokers provide a service for independent system management agents.
This enables a central management facility to access information about any network that includes a WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker broker domain.
This support ensures that existing system management agents, such as those developed by Tivoli, can be extended to include WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker resources. You can find information about using the Tivoli interface with WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker in Installing Tivoli Ready support.
Tivoli support is not available on the HP-UX or z/OS platforms.
WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker brokers publish event messages, using fixed topics, in response to configuration changes, state changes, and user actions such as subscription registrations. WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker also uses architected messages to publish events related to the status, and change in status, of the brokers. These messages are published using the reserved topic root $SYS in code page 1208.
$SYS/Broker/<brokerName>/Status/ExecutionGroup/<executionGroupName>So the topic structure is fixed in this case, but obviously <brokerName> and <executionGroupName> are replaced with the appropriate values.
<Broker uuid="12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012"> <ExecutionGroup uuid="12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012"> <Stop> <AllMessageFlows/> </Stop> </ExecutionGroup> </Broker>
A system management agent can subscribe to these topics, or to a subset of these topics, to receive the detailed information about activity and state changes in the WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker broker domain.
You can develop or purchase system management adapters or customized administrative applications. These subscribe to the system management topics generated by WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker to receive information on the broker domain activity.