Receiving events in Business Monitor

Table-based event delivery uses a database table to deliver events to the monitor model. You configure your event service to send events to the event database table for the monitor model. IBM® Business Monitor uses table-based event delivery exclusively. If you were using queue-based event delivery in an earlier version, you must reconfigure your applications to use table-based event delivery for V8.5.5.

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With table-based event delivery, the work can be distributed among multiple cluster members. The event flow skips the JMS queue of the monitoring model and directs all events into the event database table of the model. For most environments, this method improves performance by avoiding a persistence step that is required by the JMS queue.

Choose the following task depending on your environment to complete the configuration for this method.

  • Configuring IBM Business Monitor to receive events from IBM Business Process Manager V8.5.5
    In a secure environment, you must configure the server-to-server Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) if you want to use events from an IBM Business Process Manager or from IBM Business Monitor server in a different cell. The process described here applies to events that use the Dynamic Event Framework (DEF) in IBM Business Monitor V8.5.5. If you are upgrading from an existing Business Monitor topology and plan to continue to use CEI, which is deprecated, these procedures would not apply to your environment.
  • Configuring event emitters for asynchronous event delivery
    You can use wsadmin commands to control whether Dynamic Event Framework (DEF) events are emitted synchronously or asynchronously.
  • Configuring event emitters to create new transactions
    In IBM Business Monitor V8.5.5, you can use wsadmin commands to control whether Dynamic Event Framework (DEF) events are emitted in a new transaction or an existing transaction.
  • Configuring IBM Business Monitor to receive events from IBM Business Process Manager V8.5.0 and earlier
    The Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) is now deprecated. By default IBM Business Monitor no longer monitors events from CEI. However, you can configure previous versions of IBM Business Process Manager (IBM BPM) to emit events to CEI so that monitor models that were generated in previous releases of Business Monitor that rely on CEI event emission can still be used.
  • Asynchronous event considerations for events from IBM BPM V8.5.0 and earlier
    The flow from an emitting application to the common event infrastructure (CEI) can be synchronous or asynchronous. With synchronous event transmission, an application waits for successful event delivery before proceeding with the rest of its transaction. With asynchronous event transmission, an application places events on a queue and proceeds with processing.
  • Configuring authorization for asynchronous event delivery with CEI (deprecated)
    If you are planning to receive events that are emitted from an application that uses an event emitter factory with asynchronous delivery, and you did not use the wbmDeployCEIEventService AdminTask to set up your environment, you must configure the IBM Business Monitor server to communicate with the common event infrastructure (CEI) server.
Parent topic: Configuring how to receive events
Related information:
Deprecated: Manually configuring additional remote CEI servers for a single model
Monitor model versions