Disabling tracking data generation for Business Process Manager (BPM) or Business Automation Workflow (BAW)

How To

Summary

How to disable tracking data generation for a Process Center or Process Server in IBM Business Process Manager or IBM Business Automation Workflow

Objective

There might be reasons that you do not want to use the Performance Data Warehouse (PDW) component. If not using the resulting data for reporting and wanting to disable all tracking data, you can follow these steps to disable all communication to the performance server. Note the following steps disable all tracking data for the process server environment. If you want to disable data only for certain applications, you can ensure tracking is not enabled within the application itself.

Steps

Locate the 100Custom.xml file for the process center or server that is running the applications. Details can be found at the 'Location of 100Custom.xml configuration file' related link. Make sure to update the correct 100Custom.xml file(s).

Update the 100Custom.xml configuration file, setting the performance-server-communication tag to false. For example,

<properties> 
  <common> 
    <performance-server-communication> 
      <enabled merge="replace">false</enabled> 
    </performance-server-communication> 
  </common> 
</properties>

Make sure that you complete a full node synchronization in a network deployment environment so that changes are propagated to the nodes. This step is not needed for a stand-alone profile.
Restart the server or servers that contain the Process Server or Process Center component. If clustering is used, then this approach generally means that you need to restart the server members for the application cluster.
To validate that the changes have taken effect, you can monitor both the tables in the PDW database, as well as the LSW_PERF_DATA_TRANSFER table in the BPM database (which is a temporary holding place before processing the events). If these table counts are not increasing, the communication is likely disabled.
If you are needing to revert the changes, you can remove the value that was added in step 2 and perform steps 3 and 4 again.

Related Information

Location of 100Custom.xml configuration file

Document Location

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Product Synonym

BPM;BAW

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Document Information

Modified date:
14 September 2022

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ibm11108221

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