 | Level: Intermediate John Alcorn (jalcorn@us.ibm.com), Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Janet Andersen (janteand@us.ibm.com), Senior Software Engineer, IBM
David E Cox (decox@us.ibm.com), Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
Jim H. Frank (jhfrank@us.ibm.com), Senior Software Architect, IBM
Vivian Huang (vivianh@ca.ibm.com), Staff Software Engineer, IBM
16 May 2008 Learn how you can monitor IT and business activities on a single dashboard
by converting ITCAM for SOA events for display and processing by WebSphere Business
Monitor. Three sample scenarios illustrate how to define monitor models to configure
WebSphere Business Monitor.
Overview
The first part of this article describes how to set up a communication link and
configure an event format converter between ITCAM for SOA and WebSphere Business
Monitor.
The second part describes three sample scenarios for processing ITCAM for
SOA situations in WebSphere Business Monitor:
- A Situation Monitor, which
demonstrates the basic techniques for receiving ITCAM for SOA situation events,
correlating them, extracting data, post-processing the extracted information,
aggregating it, and visualizing results on a dashboard.
- An Operation Monitor,
which aggregates information about ITCAM for SOA situations by monitored service
operation, and within each operation by service requester. It demonstrates some
more advanced techniques for data aggregation and event post processing in
WebSphere Business Monitor.
- A Test Monitor, which merely extracts all data
fields in ITCAM for SOA situation events. This monitor was written to
test the communication link and the event format converter. It shows how to access
the transmitted data fields.
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| Article in PDF format | WebSphere_Business_Monitor_and_ITCAM_for_SOA_Event_Integration.pdf | 3.1MB | HTTP |
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| Sample monitor models | ExampleMonitorModels.zip | 23KB | HTTP |
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About the authors | 
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John Alcorn is the lead architect for the IBM Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) Platform. He has worked as a software engineer with IBM for the previous 14 years, with more than ten years on WebSphere products, including roles in both product development and software services. John has been a technical leader with the WebSphere Business Monitor product for over 3 years, and works closely with the IBM WebSphere Business Integration (WBI) team.
John is IBM-certified in XML technologies and in multiple WebSphere products, and is Sun™ certified in Java™ programming. He currently manages a team of developers at the Research Triangle Park lab in North Carolina. You can reach John at jalcorn@us.ibm.com.
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Janet Andersen is a Senior Software Engineer on the IBM Tivoli Composite
Application Manager (ITCAM) for SOA team. She worked on the design and development
of the ITCAM for SOA integration with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
and the service-to-service topology support.
Prior to joining the ITCAM for SOA
team, Janet was the development team lead on the WebSphere Everyplace Mobile
Portal Enable product, which extends WebSphere Portal to support a wide range of
mobile devices. Since joining IBM, Janet has worked on several WebSphere and
Tivoli software products.
You can reach Janet at
janteand@us.ibm.com.
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David E Cox is a Senior Technical Staff Member responsible for Service Oriented Architecture
management in Tivoli. He is the lead architect on the IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA product.
David is responsible for the interoperability between SOA management products and the WebSphere DataPower Appliance,
WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, and WebSphere Business Monitor. He is a member of the Autonomic
Tivoli Architecture Board and the Software Group Architecture Board.
Prior to this position, David has held architecture and leadership positions in
various systems management and communications software projects. He specializes in systems management
infrastructure. David also participated in the OASIS Web Services Distributed
Management standard.
David is a graduate of North Carolina State University and the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. You can reach David at
decox@us.ibm.com.
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Joachim (Jim) H. Frank is a Senior Software Architect with IBM.
He provided technical leadership for the design and development of WebSphere Business Modeler and WebSphere Business Monitor.
You can reach Jim at jhfrank@us.ibm.com.
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Vivian Huang is a Staff Software Developer at the IBM Toronto lab. She
is part of the WebSphere Business Modeler Process Editor team, focusing on Process
Editor UI design and development. Since joining IBM in 2000, Vivian has worked on
various WebSphere products, including Business Monitor, Commerce, and WebSphere
member manager components.
You can reach Vivian at vivianh@ca.ibm.com.
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