Binding situation events to action services

After creating the action templates, an administrator for IBM® Business Monitor, using the WebSphere® Application Server administrative console, binds situation events to action services by associating an action template with a situation event. The Monitor action services receive situation events, parse the received events, and select an appropriate action by looking up the action in the action catalog, where information about bindings is stored. Finally, the Monitor action services invoke the selected action.

An action template is bound to a situation event by the value found in the BusinessSituationName field within the situation event being passed to the Monitor action services from the server. This value is used by the Monitor action services at run time to determine which action services should be invoked upon receipt of the situation event.

The situation event can be bound to more than one action service. For example, the situation event could be bound to both an email notification and a web-service invocation or to an email notification that sends different email content to different user groups.