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Monitoring IBM BPM

Monitoring system performance enables you to assess performance and evaluate the overall progress of service components that make up the applications deployed on your system. Monitoring the overall performance of the system is essential to understand the performance of application servers, databases, and any other systems critical to your applications. Monitoring the throughput of SCA requests helps you understand the flow of requests for specific SCA modules, requesters, and providers. You can also configure IBM BPM to capture the data in a service component at certain event points.

• Service component monitoring overview
  A conceptual overview of the reasons you monitor service components; which event points within the service components you select to monitor; and, how to configure monitoring on your system.
• Enabling and configuring service component monitoring
  To be able to monitor service components, first enable the monitoring capabilities. Then you must specify the events you want to monitor, the information you want to capture from the event, and the method used to publish the results.
• Viewing monitored events
  There are a number of ways for you to view the published results of your monitored events, depending on the type of monitoring you are using. This section presents methods that you can use to view performance data, event logs, and service component events stored on a Common Event Infrastructure database.
• Event catalog
  The event catalog contains the specifications for all the events that can be monitored for each service component type, and the associated Common Base Event extended data elements produced by each event.