Use business monitoring with process applications

Use business monitoring with process applications

If you enable business monitoring support for a process application, and if you have IBM Business Monitor installed, you can monitor processes running on the Process Center server or on a process server.

Overview

Monitor models can be automatically generated or they can be developed in IBM Integration Designer. A process application can have one generated monitor model, which tracks all process instances for which monitoring was enabled. In addition, you can develop custom monitor models that consume the events from one or more process applications.
The Enable process monitoring through IBM Business Monitor option (available on the Process Apps Settings page) determines whether a process application and its snapshots are able to use Business Monitor for process monitoring. If you enable it for a process application and take a snapshot, the current setting is persisted and the snapshot is enabled for process monitoring wherever you deploy it.

On the Process Center server, this option is used in conjunction with the File > Update Tracking Definitions menu item to generate a monitor model that matches the tracking definitions in the current version of the process (the tip).
On a process server, this option is used to automatically generate a monitor model that includes the tracking definitions in a snapshot when that snapshot is installed.

In both cases, the generated monitor model is deployed and started automatically so that processes are monitored as soon as they start or are played back.
Business monitoring with generated monitor models is performed at the process application level, even if tracks are configured. A generated monitor model subscribes to the events emitted by all business process definitions contained in the process application and any referenced toolkits.
If a process application created in the current version of Process Designer references a toolkit that was created in WebSphere Lombardi Edition 7.1 or 7.2, business monitoring fails during run time. See "Troubleshooting business monitoring for process applications" in the related links section of this topic for information on resolving this problem.

Related concepts:
Monitoring IBM BPM servers