Administering Enterprise Service Bus

Administering Enterprise Service Bus involves managing a service bus environment, deploying and managing mediation modules, managing resources used for service integration and mediation modules, and managing the clients and adapters that interact with the mediation modules. Administrators can also administer the full range of features of the underlying WebSphere Application Server.

With Enterprise Service Bus, administrators create an environment of ESB servers and service integration buses that support the deployment of mediation modules as service applications. When you install WebSphere Process Server, you get two service integration buses to use for service applications deployed into the ESB. You can start with one server in a bus and optionally add capacity and enhanced availability by build up to multiple servers or server clusters. You can add other buses if you need, to provide separate ESBs, to deploy applications that connect to an ESB, or to enable integration with WebSphere MQ.

Administrators can deploy mediation modules (as SCA modules) into the server and bus environment. They can view the modules that you have deployed, and monitor that requests are being processed correctly. Administrators can start or stop mediation modules, and can administer modules in other ways; for example, to change the configuration of a module, to stop or update the module, and otherwise manage its activity. Administrators can also make changes to the SCA imports of a mediation module; for example, to redirect one module to another module. This allows a module to invoke different service providers or process service requests and responses in different ways without having to rebuild and redeploy the module.

Administrators can use a variety of tools to administer Enterprise Service Bus, including the WebSphere administrative console, the WebSphere administrative (wsadmin) scripting program, command-line tools, and administrative programs.

The main descriptions of administrative tasks are based on use of the administrative console. Each task in the administrative console is supported by one or more panels. You can use a task filter to display the set of panels that are most appropriate to the tasks that you want to complete, and thereby focus your activities on only those panels.

All
This displays all administrative console panels. This is most appropriate for an administrator interested in managing all parts of WebSphere Process Server and the underlying WebSphere Application Server.

For more information about administration of enterprise service bus features, see the related tasks listed below.

Application Integration
This displays panels suitable for the following task areas:
  • Adjusting the configuration of service integration buses, servers, server clusters, messaging engines and network topologies needed to support the deployment of mediation modules and service applications
  • Creating resources (for example, JMS connection factories and Common Event Infrastructure profiles) needed by deployed service applications and mediation modules
  • Operational control of mediation modules and service applications

This is most appropriate for an administrator interested in deploying and managing mediation modules as service applications, as described in Managing service applications.

Server and Bus
This displays panels suitable for the following task areas:
  • Defining service integration buses, servers, server clusters, messaging engines and network topologies needed to support the deployment of mediation modules and service applications
  • Enabling and disabling infrastructure services
  • Installing applications and mediation modules
  • Creating resources (for example, JMS connection factories and Common Event Infrastructure profiles) needed by deployed service applications and mediation modules
  • Operational control of the bus and server environment

This is most appropriate for an administrator interested in managing the server and bus environment needed to support the deployment of service applications and mediation modules. This includes defining the network and bus topology, defining appropriate resources and monitoring the runtime system and troubleshooting any runtime errors. For more information about managing the bus and server environment, see Managing the bus environment.


Terms of use |

Last updated: Thu Apr 27 14:23:45 2006

(c) Copyright IBM Corporation 2006.
This information center is powered by Eclipse technology (http://www.eclipse.org)