Using IBM Business Monitor with process applications

If you enable business monitoring support for a process application, and if you have a default IBM® Business Monitor target defined, you can monitor processes running on the Process Center server or a process server using your Business Monitor server.

Overview

Monitor models can be automatically generated or they can be developed in IBM Integration Designer. A process application can have one generated monitor model, which tracks all process instances for which monitoring was enabled. In addition, you can develop custom monitor models that consume the events from one or more process applications.

The Enable process monitoring through IBM Business Monitor option (available on the Process Apps Settings page) enables the automatic generation and deployment of a Business Monitor monitoring model on a Process Center or Process Server that has a target Business Monitor server configured. If you enable it for a process application and take a snapshot, the current setting is persisted and the snapshot is enabled for process monitoring wherever you deploy it.

On the Process Center server, this option is used in conjunction with the File > Update Tracking Definitions menu item in Process Designer to generate a monitor model for monitoring the process application.
On a process server, this option is used to automatically generate a monitor model for the process app when a snapshot is installed.

In both cases, the generated monitor model is deployed and started automatically so that processes are monitored as soon as they start or are played back.

Business monitoring with generated monitor models is performed at the process application level, even if tracks are configured. A generated monitor model subscribes to the events emitted by all business process definitions contained in the process application and any referenced toolkits.

Note: If a process application created in the current version of Process Designer references a toolkit that was created in WebSphere® Lombardi Edition 7.1 or 7.2, business monitoring fails during run time. See "Troubleshooting business monitoring for process applications" in the related links section for information about resolving this problem.