Business process administration tools
You can use a set of administration tools to accomplish tasks, which range from installing and managing snapshots to administering processes and working with the resources in your IT environment.
- Command-line tools
- You can use command-line tools, scripting interfaces, and programming interfaces to administer
the runtime environment.
- Command-line tools are simple programs that you run from an operating system command-line prompt for specific tasks. Using these tools, you can start and stop application servers, check server status, add or remove nodes, and other tasks.
- The WebSphere® administrative (wsadmin) scripting program is a non-graphical command interpreter environment. This environment enables running administrative options in a scripting language (Jython or Jacl) and to submit scripting language programs for execution. It supports the same tasks as the administrative console, and many of the Workflow Center tasks. The wsadmin tool is intended for production environments and unattended operations.
- Administrative programming interfaces are a set of Java™ classes and methods under the Java Management Extensions (JMX) specification that support administering Service Component Architecture (SCA) and business objects. Each programming interface includes a description of its purpose, an example that demonstrates how to use the interface or class, and references to the individual method descriptions.
- Workflow Center
- Workflow Center provides a convenient location for users to create and maintain high-level library items such as process applications and toolkits. It helps provide a framework in which IBM® BPM analysts and developers can build their processes and underlying implementations. In addition, Workflow Center provides tools for
maintaining the repository, including setting up the appropriate authorization for users and groups.
Access Workflow Center through a web browser (for example,
http://host:9080/ProcessCenter). - Process Admin Console
- The Process Admin Console is used
to administer the process servers in your environment, including the users and installed snapshots
for each server. In addition, it provides tools to help you manage queues and caches.
The Process Admin Console includes the Process Inspector, a tool to view and manage process instances for process applications that are running on a specific process server.
Access the Process Admin Console through a web browser (for example,
http://host:9080/ProcessAdmin). - Business Performance Admin Console
- The Business Performance Admin Console includes tools for managing
the Performance Data Warehouses in your environment. You can use this
tool to manage server queues and monitor server performance.
Access the Business Performance Admin Console through a web browser (for example,
http://host:9080/PerformanceAdmin). - WebSphere Application Server administrative console
- The administrative console is used to administer applications, services, and other resources at
a cell, node, server, or cluster scope. You can use the console with stand-alone servers and with
deployment managers that manage all servers in a cell in a networked environment.
If you installed a stand-alone profile, you have a single node in its own administrative domain, which is known as a cell. Use the administrative console to manage applications, buses, servers, and resources within that administrative domain. Similarly, if you installed and configured a network deployment cell, you have a deployment manager node and one or more managed nodes in the same cell. Use the administrative console to manage applications, set up managed nodes in the cell, and monitor and control those nodes and their resources.
Access this console through a web browser (for example,
http://host:9060/ibm/consoleorhttps://host:9043/ibm/console). - Administration Console for Content Platform Engine
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The IBM Administration Console for Content Platform Engine can be used to administer the BPM document store. You can access the IBM Administration Console for Content Platform Engine through a web browser. For example, https://localhost:9443/navigator/?desktop=acce for v20.0.0.2 or
https://<bawserver>:<port>/accefor v21.0.2 or later. For more information, see Administering Content Platform Engine. 
Business Process Choreographer Explorer and Business Process Archive
Explorer- Depending on your user role, you can use client interfaces to manage BPEL processes and human
tasks that are created in IBM Integration
Designer. Work with your
assigned tasks, view completed BPEL processes and human tasks that are in an archive database, or
delete processes and tasks from the archive.
- Administration widgets
- Administration widgets offer a way to manage and monitor certain components of your overall
business process management solution, including Advanced Integration service modules and services.
Use these widgets in a business space to provide visibility into your service application and
modules and to answer questions such as these:
- What services are used in or displayed by a module, and what are the response time and throughput over a defined period for these services?
- What is the status of a module?
- Are there any failed events in the module?
- What mediation policies are associated with the module?
- What BPEL processes and human tasks are used in a module?
- Are there any business calendars or business rules in the module?
- Business process rules manager
- The business process rules manager is a web-based tool that assists the business analyst in browsing and modifying business rule values. The tool is an option of IBM Workflow Server that you can select to install when you create a profile or after server installation.