Monitoring Business Processes for a B2Bi Server

Follow these steps to specify the business processes to be monitored for a B2Bi server:
  1. Go to Update Server dialog for the monitored server and click on the Settings.
  2. On the Settings tab, choose whether you want to Specify the Business Processes to be monitored (the block list option) or not be monitored (the allow list option) by choosing Monitored or Not monitored respectively and then click BP List.
    Note:

    • Until IBM Sterling Control Center ascertains whether the monitored B2Bi server supports the ability to specify a allow list of BPs for monitoring, you will not be given a choice regarding the specification of a BP block list / allow list.

      The BP List button appears after Control Center has connected with the monitored server and is able to obtain the list of business processes from it.

  3. Choose the processes to be monitored/ not monitored from the Business Process Selection dialog box. You can specify a maximum of 255 business processes for either type of the processes.

Specifying Business Processes To Monitor

  • Depending on the release of B2Bi being monitored, you may specify either BPs to not be monitored, or BPs to be monitored.
  • An engine property, SI_SUPPORTS_BP_ALLOW_LIST, which by default is false, may be specified. When SI_SUPPORTS_BP_ALLOW_LIST is true, ICC will allow you to specify business processes to not be monitored regardless of whether the B2Bi server supports that ability. This property will be useful because currently Control Center is unable to ascertain whether the B2Bi server supports a allow list BP specification and assumes it cannot.
  • If you want to change the default for specifying business processes to be monitored from using a block list approach to a allow list approach for monitored B2Bi servers, you must add the engine property BP_BLOCK_LIST with a value of false. Once Control Center is stopped and restarted, the update to BP_BLOCK_LIST will take effect.