Subscribing to webMethods Events

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The Optimize Analytic Engine has the capability to consume subscribed events. You can subscribe to specific event types and use the business data of the received events to construct event maps and KPIs.

The event types you can subscribe to correspond to the list of XSD schemata currently available in the Event Type Store. The Event Type Store provides a central location where predefined and user-defined event types are stored. By default, it is installed under Software AG_directory/common/EventTypeStore. For more information about the Event Type Store, see the PDF publication IBM webMethods Event Processing Help.

Note: If your Optimize system operates in an event-driven environment using IBM webMethods Event Routing (deprecated), to support subscription to and publication of events, you must create and configure messaging services, add them to groups, and associate event types to them using the Command Central interface. By default, Event Routing (deprecated) is installed with a pre-configured Universal Messaging service whose provider URL is defined as nsp://localhost:9000. You can modify this value using the Command Central user interface. For more information about creating and configuring messaging services, see the Communicating Between IBM webMethods Products Using Event Routing PDF publication.

Filtering the List of Subscribed Event Types

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The Event Subscription page contains the list of available event types in your Event Type Store. You can filter that list or modify the number of displayed items per page.

To filter the list of displayed event types

Procedure

  1. In My webMethods: Navigate > Applications > Administration > Analytics > KPIs > Event Subscription.
  2. On the Event Subscription page, do one of the following:
    • Enter the name of the Event Type into the Filter field and click Go to filter the event types available on the page.

      You can filter both by event name or by namespace.

    • Leave the Filter field blank and click Go to display all available event types.
    Note: By default, event types are displayed in batches of 30 items per page. If you want to modify that number, use the Items per page property in the upper right corner of the page to set a different number, and click Go.

    Optimize displays the list of event types. You can subscribe to any of the event types from this page to receive events and use the data to create event maps and KPIs.

    For more information about creating event maps, see Mapping Events.

    For more information about defining KPIs, see Defining KPIs.

Subscribing to Event Types

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The Event Subscription page displays a list of event types you can subscribe to.

To subscribe to events

Procedure

  1. In My webMethods: Navigate > Applications > Administration > Analytics > KPIs > Event Subscription.
  2. On the Event Subscription page, select the check box beside the event type you want to subscribe to, and clear the check box beside the event type you want to unsubscribe from.
  3. Click Save to save the event subscription definition, or click Delete to cancel your choice and continue to use the event subscription definition you last made.