IBM Integration Bus, Version 9.0.0.8 Operating Systems: AIX, HP-Itanium, Linux, Solaris, Windows, z/OS

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Workload management

Allows system administrators to monitor and adjust the speed that messages are processed, as well as controlling the actions taken on unresponsive flows and threads.

The following topics explain the various options available under workload management:

Message flow notification

A common requirement is to be able to monitor the speed at which IBM® Integration Bus processes messages. Workload management allows the system administrator to express a notification threshold for individual message flows deployed. An out of range notification message is produced if the notification threshold is exceeded. A back in range notification message is produced if the notification threshold later drops back into range. For more information, see Configure a message flow to cause notification threshold messages to be published.

Setting the maximum rate for a message flow

The system administrator can set the maximum rate that an individual message flow can run at. The maximum rate is specified as the total number of input messages processed every second. When set, the number of input messages that are processed across the flow is measured. This measure is irrespective of the number of additional instances in use, the number of input nodes in the message flow, or the number of errors that occur. If necessary, a processing delay is introduced to keep the input message processing rate under the maximum flow rate setting. For more information, see Setting the maximum rate for a message flow.

Unresponsive message flows

Allows you to specify and monitor the maximum amount of time that any message flow is allowed to process a message for, and to specify an action to be taken if the timeout is exceeded. Additionally, manual requests can be made to stop a message flow by restarting the integration server. For more information, see Unresponsive message flows.

Configure a policy

The system administrator can specify a workload management policy within Integration Registry for a message flow. The workload management policy has the advantage in that it encompasses all of the properties available under workload management in one place and therefore allows for easier tuning of message flow performance. For more information, see Integration Registry.


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