Steps for monitoring and managing business rule states in System Monitor

Business rules allow the user to alter run-time behavior without requiring a complete redefinition and redeployment of the collaboration template. After deploying a business rule, you can monitor and manage the state of the business rule using System Monitor. System Monitor lists the running states of all InterChange Server Express components.

For more information on business rules, see the System Implementation Guide and the Collaboration Development Guide.

Perform the following steps to manage business rule states in System Monitor:

  1. Start System Monitor.
  2. Select System Overview from the available views to display the components of the system.
  3. Select a business rule by selecting the check box to its left.
  4. Select one of the following states from the icon group in the upper-left corner of the view:

Role-based access control for business rules

After enabling role-based access control (RBAC) for business rules, you have the ability to authorize permissions for users accessing the system using roles. For more information on how to set role-based access control, see Administering role-based access control (RBAC).

The following operations are available for use with role-based access control:

Business object probe query restrictions

A business object probe monitors business object instance values during run time. When querying business object probe data with System Monitor, certain restrictions apply. These restrictions are mainly concerned with hierarchical business objects, where one attribute can contain a business object, which contains a child business object, which contains a child business object, and so on.

For more information on business object probes, see the Collaboration Development Guide. For more information on business object probe dependencies, see the System Implementation Guide.

To allow System Monitor to accurately query business object probes, the following restrictions apply:

Displaying filtered business object probe data in System Monitor

Using System Monitor, you can filter your display of business object probe data. The application of filters to your results gives you a more precise display of business object probe data.

Perform the following steps from the Probe Monitor view to filter business object probe data:

  1. Using the Attribute Name drop down box, select the attribute you want to search on, for example, CustomerOrder.ZipCode. See Figure 34.
  2. Using the Filter field, enter any information you want to filter on, for example, zip code 950. Filtering on specific information will filter out all other information.
    Note:
    You may use the percent sign ( % ) character as a wildcard during the filtering process, for example 950% in the steps above will filter all zip codes that begin with 950. You may also use the underscore ( _ ) character to match only one character during the filtering process. For more information, refer to SQL documentation.
    Figure 34. Business Object Probe Filter

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