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Monitoring flows by using WebSphere Business Monitor
You can monitor message flows by using WebSphere® Business Monitor.
- Install WebSphere Business Monitor, and create and start a monitor server. To use the Monitor Model Editor (MME), install the WebSphere Business Monitor Development Toolkit. For full instructions, see IBM® WebSphere Business Process Management Version 7.0 Information Center.
IBM WebSphere Business Monitor is business activity monitoring software that provides a real-time view of your business processes and operations. It contains personalized business dashboards that calculate and display key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics derived from business processes, business activity data, and business events from a wide range of information sources, including WebSphere Message Broker message flows. You can get immediate insight into your business operations so that you can mitigate problems or take immediate advantage of opportunities, resulting in cost savings and increased revenues.
- WebSphere Business Monitor must be able to identify the start and end of a monitoring context. Always define transaction events (transaction.Start, transaction.End, and transaction.Rollback) on message flows that are monitored by WebSphere Business Monitor.
- The WebSphere Business Monitor toolkit does not support local elements with anonymous types. The export monitoring information option therefore does not generate an event part for event payload XPath queries that resolve to an element of this type. You see a warning message in the report log flowProjectName_batchgen_report.txt.
- The WebSphere Business Monitor toolkit does not support creating metrics of type xs:anyType. If an XPath expression in your event payload resolves to an element of type xs:anyType, the export monitoring information option creates an event part of this type, but you cannot create a metric of this type in the WebSphere Business Monitor toolkit. Create an event part with a supported type; see Defining Event Parts in the WebSphere Business Monitor information center.
- If you include unmodeled data, the export monitoring information option cannot type the data. It assigns a type of string to the data.
- The option to export monitoring information does not support XPath queries that contain wildcards.
- Installing a message-driven bean (MDB) into WebSphere Business Monitor
- Importing monitoring information about a message flow
- Deploying a monitor model to WebSphere Business Monitor
- Creating a WebSphere Business Monitor dashboard
- Sending messages through a flow and viewing the events that are generated in the WebSphere Business Monitor dashboard
To monitor message flows from WebSphere Message Broker, generate a monitor model in the WebSphere Business Monitor development toolkit. Follow the instructions in the appropriate topic.