Configuring the IBM Business Monitor action services application

The action service application invokes actions, such as sending dashboard alerts or email notifications, when it receives defined situation events emitted by IBM® Business Monitor and other applications. Situation events typically indicate business situations that need attention, such as a printer running out of paper or a metric exceeding a certain value. In the four-cluster topology, the action services application is deployed on the support cluster.

About this task

To view this administrative console page, click Servers > IBM Business Monitor configuration.

The action services application requires the messaging engine and the outbound CEI event service.

Procedure

To install and configure the action services application, complete the following steps:

  1. In the list of components, click Action Services. The status for the action services application is displayed. If the application is properly installed, the location of the installed application is listed in the status box.
  2. Under Deploy action services, select the server or cluster for the action services application from the list. All available servers and clusters should be listed. You must select a server where IBM Business Monitor has been installed. If you have more than one server with the same name, be sure to choose the server on the correct node.
  3. To deploy the application, click Deploy Action Services. The application is deployed and the Monitor action services group profile is created. The application status box is updated with the location of the deployed application, named IBM_WBM_ACTIONSERVICES. If this application has been deployed to a cluster, the application will appear unavailable until all nodes in the cluster have been synchronized.
  4. Return to the configuration page by clicking IBM Business Monitor configuration in the breadcrumb listing.