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Administration tools

Set of administration tools for managing snapshots, administering processes, and working with the resources.

Command-line tools

IBM BPM provides command-line tools, scripting interfaces, and programming interfaces to administer the runtime environment.

  • Command-line tools are run from an operating system command-line prompt to perform specific tasks. You can start and stop application servers, check server status, add or remove nodes, and other tasks.

  • The wsdmin scripting program is a non-graphical command interpreter environment for running administrative options in a scripting language and to submit scripting language programs for execution. It supports the same tasks as the administrative console, as well as many of the Process Center Console tasks.

  • Administrative programming interfaces are a set of Java classes and methods under the JMX specification that provide support for administering Service Component Architecture and business objects.

Process Center Console

Web tool for creating library items, such as process applications and toolkits. Provides a framework for BPM analysts and developers to build processes. Provides tools for maintaining the repository, including setting up the authorization for users and groups.

    http://host:9080/ProcessCenter

Process Admin Console

Administer process servers, including users and installed snapshots. Provides tools to manage queues and caches. Includes the Process Inspector for view and managing process instances running on a specific process server.

    http://host:9080/ProcessAdmin

Business Performance Admin Console

Web tool for managing Performance Data Warehouses. Manage server queues and monitor server performance.

    http://host:9080/PerformanceAdmin

WebSphere Application Server administrative console

Web tool for administering applications, services, and other resources at a cell, node, server, or cluster scope.

    http://host:9043/ibm/console

Business Process Choreographer Explorer and Business Process Archive Explorer

Client interfaces used to...

Administration widgets

Widgets for managing Advanced Integration Service modules and services. Used in business spaces to provide visibility into service applications and modules and to answer questions such as these:

  • What services are consumed in or exposed by a module
  • What are the response time and throughput over a defined period of time for 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?

Use one or more of the widgets to get a snapshot of the overall system health, including status of...

  • deployment environments
  • clusters
  • system applications
    • failed event manager
    • Business Process Choreographer
  • data sources
  • messaging engines
  • messaging queues

Business process rules manager

Web tool that assists the business analyst in browsing and modifying business rule values. Option of the IBM Process Server that you can select to install at profile creation time or after installing the server.

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