This section describes how to start and use the System Manager perspective.
To start the workbench and System Manager, do the following:
WebSphere Studio Workbench starts and appears. Figure 10 shows the System Manager perspective and System Manager interface describes the interface and its elements.
The System Manager perspective has several views and editors in the default configuration it opens with. Figure 10 shows the System Manager perspective:
Table 2 describes the interface elements of the System Manager perspective, identified by the numbers in Figure 10:
Interface element number | Interface element name |
---|---|
1 | Menu bar and toolbar |
2 | Perspective shortcut bar |
3 | WebSphere Business Integration System Manager view |
4 | InterChange Server Express Component Management view |
5 | Editor view |
6 | Console view |
The following sections describe the interface elements of System Manager in greater detail.
You use the menu bar and toolbar to work with the Eclipse-based tooling framework and to work with WebSphere Business Integration Server Express components. Many of the menu bar items have toolbar equivalents, so the following sections only describe menu bars and their items.
File menuThis is an Eclipse-standard menu that is used to work with resources. You will use it primarily to create new integration component libraries and user projects.
For more information on creating integration component libraries and user projects, see Working with integration component libraries and Working with user projects.
Edit menuThis is an Eclipse-standard menu that has many standard items such as Cut, Copy, and Paste.
For more information on cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting the components you create, see Working with components in integration component libraries.
Navigate menuThis is an Eclipse-standard menu that allows you to navigate among the resources in the workbench. For more information on this menu, see the workbench documentation.
Search menuThis is an Eclipse-standard menu that allows you to search for and search within resources. For more information on this menu, see the workbench documentation.
Project menuThis is an Eclipse-standard menu that has menu items for manipulating Project resources in the workbench; this menu item is not used when working with the System Manager perspective. For more information on this menu, see the workbench documentation.
Component menuThis menu is provided with the System Manager perspective and is useful for working with integration components you create. The items in this menu are documented throughout this guide and others in sections that describe specific tasks.
Tools menuThis menu is provided with the System Manager perspective and is used to launch tools used to create integration components.
For more information, see Working with components in integration component libraries.
Server menuThis menu has the Register Servers item, which you can use to register an InterChange Server Express instance.
For more information, see Registering an InterChange Server Express instance.
Run menuThis menu has an item to configure external tools to run external programs, batch files, and build scripts. For more information, see the workbench documentation.
Window menuThis menu has items for working with perspectives, views, editors, and preferences.
These items are covered in the workbench documentation and in various sections of this guide.
Help menuThis menu has items that launch the workbench documentation and that provide version information about the workbench and perspectives.
Use the perspective shortcut bar to navigate conveniently between different perspectives. You can click on their workspace icons for different perspectives in the perspective shortcut toolbar to switch between them.
You can also navigate to other perspectives by using the Window menu:
This view has the User Projects and Integration Component Libraries nodes, which are types of InterChange Server Express projects.
For more information on working with these types of projects, see Working with integration component libraries and Working with user projects.
Use this view to work with InterChange Server Express instances and the components in them. When you register an InterChange Server Express instance, a row and entry are created underneath the Server Instances node for each server. You can expand the node to view the components in the repository of that instance, and can use right-click menu items to manipulate those components.
For more information about registering and working with InterChange Server Express instances, see Working with InterChange Server Express instances.
This is the view in which you work with different resources in the framework, such as files and integration component definitions. Different editors open to work with different types of resources. For instance, text files are opened in a text editor whereas collaboration object definitions are opened in a InterChange Server Express-specific editor.
This view has two tabs: Console and Log Output. When you compile maps or collaboration templates in System Manager, the Console tab displays messages to indicate whether compilation for each component completed successfully and the Log Output tab displays any errors or warnings encountered.