You monitor events in WebSphere Process Server to assess problem determination, to tune performance, and to measure the effectiveness of your business processes.
IBM® WebSphere® Process Server event monitoring capabilities include performance monitoring and service component monitoring.
Monitoring performance: Performance measurements are available for service component event points, and are processed through the Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) and the Tivoli® Performance Viewer.
You can monitor specific performance measurements for a given event, such as the number of times the event is invoked or the length of time it takes for that event to complete from start to finish. You can also monitor events, and later view their contents, either by viewing the events in a log file or by querying the events stored on the event database. In both cases, you can temporarily specify an event point or points to monitor in order to spot problems with the application logic or with system performance.
Monitoring service component events: WebSphere Process Server monitoring can capture the data in a service component at a certain event point. These events are formatted in a standard called the Common Base Event. You can have the process server publish these events to the logging facilities, or you can use the more versatile monitoring capabilities of a Common Event Infrastructure server database to store and analyze these events.
Some applications that run on the process server include event points that are monitored continually after the application is deployed. You can do this if you are a business analyst and want to observe the effectiveness of the business processes you have modeled and implemented in the applications you deployed on the process server. This allows you to use products, such as IBM WebSphere Business Monitor, to create customized panels -- or "dashboards" -- to view key business process metrics.
For more information, see Monitoring.
Last updated: Thu 26 Oct 2006 10:30:05
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