Scenario 2 - Monitoring with Sterling B2B Integrator

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You can use Sterling B2B Integrator to monitor your Sterling Connect:Direct® to Sterling B2B Integrator processes.

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Use the following procedure to monitor your Sterling Connect:Direct process with Sterling B2B Integrator:

Procedure

  1. From the Business Process menu, select Monitor > Advanced Search > Business Processes.
  2. In the Search Using Business Process Name pane, select yourBusinessProcess in the Business Processes list and click Go!.

    The Monitor page displays the following information:

    Label Description
    Status Status of the business process—a green traffic light signals a successful execution
    ID The business process ID number
    Name The business process name
    State The current state of the business process

    If the Status indicates unsuccessful execution, refer to Troubleshooting.

  3. Click the ID number to see details about the business process execution.

    The Business Process Detail page displays the following information:

    Label Description
    Step The business process step number
    Service The Sterling B2B Integrator service name used in the step
    Status The status of the step
    Advanced Status Additional status information
    Started The time and date the step started
    Ended The time and date the step ended
    Status Report A link to the status report for the step
    Document A link to documents in use by the step
    Instance Data A link to process data for the step
       
  4. Click the Document info link for Step 1, GetDocumentInfo service.

    The PrimaryDocument page displays the contents of the Primary Document, targetdocName.

  5. Close the PrimaryDocument page.
  6. From the Business Process Detail page, click the Instance Data info link for Step 1, GetDocumentInfo service.

    The Process Data page displays process data for the business process. The data is presented in XML format as shown:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ProcessData>
  <PrimaryDocument SCIObjectID="oxnard:node1:11efefe9db6:26492407"/>
  <CDServerNodeData>
    <RemoteFileName>C:\source.txt</RemoteFileName>
    <PnodeName>CDWIN</PnodeName>
    <LocalFileName>/businessprocess/ReceiveFromCD/dest.txt</LocalFileName>
    <SnodeName>SI51CD</SnodeName>
  </CDServerNodeData>
  <BodyName>dest.txt</BodyName>
  <BodyLength>5</BodyLength>
  <DocumentBodyLength>5</DocumentBodyLength>
  <DocumentLength>5</DocumentLength>
  <DocumentName>dest.txt</DocumentName>
  <DocumentId>oxnard:node1:11efefe9db6:26492400</DocumentId>
...
</ProcessData>

    In this example, the Get Document Information Service puts information about the Primary Document, such as the BodyName and BodyLength, into process data.

    Note: You can also monitor your business processes from the Business Process menu by navigating to Monitor > Advanced Search > Documents or Monitor > Advanced Search > Communication Sessions.