Business process administration tools
You can use a set of administration tools to accomplish tasks ranging 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 to perform 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 that enables you to run 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, as well as many of the Workflow Center console 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 provide support for 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 console
- The Workflow Center console 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 BPM analysts and developers can
build their processes and underlying implementations. In addition, the Workflow Center console provides tools for maintaining the
repository, including setting up the appropriate authorization for users and groups.
Access the Workflow Center console 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 have installed a stand-alone profile, you have a single node in its own administrative domain, known as a cell. Use the administrative console to manage applications, buses, servers, and resources within that administrative domain. Similarly, if you have 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
- The IBM® Administration Console for
Content Platform Engine can be used to administer
the BPM document store.
Access the IBM Administration Console for Content Platform Engine through a web browser, for example, https://localhost:9443/navigator/?desktop=acce. For more information, see IBM FileNet P8, Version 5.2, Administering Content Platform Engine.
Business Process Choreographer Explorer and Business Process Archive
Explorer- Depending on your user role, you can use these client interfaces
to manage BPEL processes and human tasks 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 consumed in or exposed by a module, and what are the response time and throughput over a defined period of time 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 at profile creation time or after installing the server.