WebSphere Business Monitor V7 information roadmap

These documents provide a general overview of WebSphere Business Monitor.

• IBM Business Process Management Reviewer's Guide This IBM Redpaper publication provides an overview of the IBM BPM portfolio to market watchers who want to understand the most current BPM technology releases. Specifically, this paper reviews the key benefits and capabilities of the WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition of the IBM BPM Suite, which includes WebSphere Business Monitor.

• WebSphere Business Monitor Product Page IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V7.0 and IBM WebSphere Business Monitor for z/OS V7.0 offer real-time insight into your business processes.

• WebSphere Business Monitor Information Center In the WebSphere Business Monitor Version 7.0 information center, you can find all of the information that you need to install, maintain, and use WebSphere Business Monitor.

• Overview of new features in V7 This 15-minute presentation introduces the main new features and uses of WebSphere Business Monitor.

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This section provides links to instructions for installing the WebSphere Integration Developer package, applying updates, and adding additional features to the package. It also tells you how to migrate applications from earlier versions and from some related products.

• Software and hardware requirements Use this source to identify hardware, software, and user privilege requirements that must be met in order to successfully install and run your software.

• Installing WebSphere Business Monitor This installation guide provides instructions for installing and uninstalling WebSphere Business Monitor 7.0 and optional features.

• Installing the monitor database You can install the monitor database as part of creating a stand-alone or deployment manager profile, or you can manually create the database by running the database script files before or after profile creation. In a network deployment environment, it is best to create the database before starting the deployment manager and creating other custom profiles.

• Creating and augmenting profiles After you have installed WebSphere Business Monitor, you must create at least one profile to prepare your runtime environment. You can create and augment profiles either through the Profile Management Tool or through the manageprofiles command. If you are using z/OS or the 64-bit version of WebSphere Business Monitor, you must use the manageprofiles command.

• Migrating to WebSphere Business Monitor 7 Migrating allows you to move from one product to another or one version of a product to another while preserving configuration information and user applications. WebSphere Business Monitor provides the necessary tools to migrate an existing environment to the new version 7.0 environment.

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• WebSphere BPM scenarios This information set describes key scenarios and the way they relate to the BPM life cycle – the activities that you develop and apply to manage business processes. Each scenario helps you understand which WebSphere BPM products are involved and which core tasks are required to develop and improve aspects of your business processes.

• Monitoring scenarios The monitoring scenarios provide an overview of how to use WebSphere Business Monitor for several specific situations

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These documents tell you how to develop process models that can be monitored.

• Developing monitor models The IBM WebSphere Business Monitor development toolkit provides the tools for creating monitor models that can be transformed into executable code for WebSphere Business Monitor. The toolkit runs on WebSphere Integration Developer or Rational® Application Developer, and includes the Monitor Model editor and the WebSphere Business Monitor test environment.

• Monitor models A monitor model describes metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) (collectively called business measures), their dependencies on incoming events, conditions warranting business actions (business situations), and outbound events that report these conditions and might trigger business actions.

• Creating monitor models To create a monitor model, you first create a business monitoring project and then create a monitor model. The model contains a details model, a key performance indicator (KPI) model, a dimensional model, a visual model, and an event model.

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This section describes how to install a monitor model and perform various administrative tasks to maintain that model.

• Installing and administering monitor models You can install WebSphere Business Monitor models using either the WebSphere Application Server administrative console or scripts.

• Administering your monitoring environment This overview describes the WebSphere Business Monitor administrative functions.

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• Testing monitor models in the test environment After you have created a monitor model, it is essential that you test it as part of iterative development. Such testing is performed on a running monitor model within the WebSphere Business Monitor test environment. In the test environment, results of the tests are displayed in Business Space where you can quickly verify that the metrics are being collected correctly and that your calculations are correct.

• Debugging monitor models If you find a problem while testing your monitor model or if you just want to understand how your monitor model gathers information, use the debugger that is included with the WebSphere Business Monitor development toolkit. You can submit events to a version of your monitor model that is running in the debugger and manually step through the processing to understand what happens when each event arrives.

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Using WebSphere Business Monitor, you can access critical business data from a browser, a mobile device, or from your desktop.

• Dashboards Dashboards are typically designed to provide quick access to important information. WebSphere Business Monitor supports the following dashboards: Business Space, Business Space for WebSphere Portal, and portlet-based dashboards.

• Monitoring from a mobile device You can view a mobile version of a WebSphere Business Monitor dashboard using either your BlackBerry, iPhone, or iTouch mobile devices. From the dashboards on mobile devices, you can monitor alerts, key performance indicators (KPIs), and human tasks.

• Monitoring from your desktop In WebSphere Business Monitor 7.0, the implementation of desktop components (gadgets, plug-ins, and add-ins) enhance your ability to access WebSphere Business Monitor data. These desktop components are designed so that you can easily add them to your local environment. The current set of desktop components are only available for the Windows operating system.

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• Managing security To provide a secure environment for WebSphere Business Monitor, you must enable both administrative security and application security. Use the Security Configuration wizard in the WebSphere Application Server administrative console to enable or change security for WebSphere Business Monitor.

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The following section provides troubleshooting information about installation, administration, database service, dashboards, and toolkit for WebSphere Business Monitor.

• Frequently asked questions (FAQs) about WebSphere Integration Developer The entries at this site list frequently asked questions (FAQs) about WebSphere Business Monitor to help you troubleshoot potential problems and enhance how you use the product.

• Troubleshooting Topics in this section provide guidance for troubleshooting in a number of situations.

• Message reference This reference section of the information center provides additional information about messages you may encounter while using WebSphere Business Monitor. It is organized according to the identifier of the product feature that produces the message.

• Support This support portal provides entry points to a number of resources to help you resolve problems when setting up and using WebSphere Business Monitor.

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With over 250 courses across the WebSphere Software portfolio and SOA, flexible classroom, online and private courses, and award winning instructors with first-hand product knowledge, WebSphere Education helps you and your organization build the skills to maximize your WebSphere investment.

• IBM Education Assistant Visit this site to find education resources for WebSphere Business Monitor.

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