Introduction:
IBM BPM comes with a set of tools to allow you to monitor and troubleshoot various aspects of the environment. This is just a high-level overview as the tools are well documented themselves. These tools are generally used to monitor the running environments rather than give you a full monitoring framework (with alerts, escalation levels, etc).
Tools:
There are three main tools shipped with IBM BPM we should discuss:
- Process Monitor
- Purpose: Identify running BPD instances and services, enable you to stop items that are consuming resources, in a stuck state, or looping.
- Access:
- Login to the Process Admin console
- On the left hand navigation pane, click "Monitoring"->"Process Monitor"
- For more details: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/bpm/bpmjournal/1312_chan/1312_chan.html
- Instrumentation Monitor
- Purpose: Collect and displays detailed instrumentation data for the system. This is just runtime information and is not tracked/saved by default.
- Access:
- Login to the Process Admin console
- On the left hand navigation pane, click "Monitoring"->"Instrumentation"
- For more details: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/bpm/bpmjournal/1312_chan/1312_chan.html
- EM (Event Manager) Monitor
- Purpose: Displays tasks and activities that were successfully scheduled, initiated, and are running in the Event Manager. It displays processes that are in the queue, running, or paused.
- Access:
- Login to the Process Admin console
- On the left hand navigation pane, click "Event Manager"->"Monitor"
- For more details: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/bpm/bpmjournal/1312_chan/1312_chan.html
Conclusions:
The above tools are useful in diagnosing a running BPM system. They can help resolve runtime issues, real-time monitoring and diagnostic. They are not for tracking, reporting, alerting, or escalation.
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