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Importing monitor models from IBM WebSphere Business Modeler
You can optionally start your monitor model by importing a monitor model from WebSphere Business Modeler. The monitor model can contain business-relevant key performance indicators (KPIs), metrics, and measures as well as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) diagrams of the process or processes.
If the monitor model was exported from WebSphere Business Modeler using the IBM Business Monitor development toolkit export option, you have several files (MM, MMEX, and SVG) to import. If the monitor model was exported along with a Process Server application, using the IBM Integration Designer export option, you might have a single project interchange file.
You can also import a WebSphere Business Modeler monitor model from the asset repository. See Importing assets from the asset repository for instructions.
- Importing monitor models from WebSphere Business Modeler as individual files
If you exported the monitor model from WebSphere Business Modeler as individual files, cut and paste the individual files or import them into a new project.
- Importing project interchange files from WebSphere Business Modeler
If you exported the monitor model or models from WebSphere Business Modeler as a project interchange file, using the IBM Integration Designer export option, import the resulting project interchange file into the toolkit.
- Results of importing monitor models exported from WebSphere Business Modeler
When you export monitor models from WebSphere Business Modeler, a monitor model is created for each top-level process. Each monitor model contains a root element that contains some elements of the monitor details model, dimensional model, KPI model, visual model, and event model.- Integration options
If in addition to exporting monitor model files from WebSphere Business Modeler using the IBM Business Monitor development toolkit export option, you also exported a model from WebSphere Business Modeler to use as the basis for a Process Server application, you can complete the application in Integration Designer and then generate a monitor model. You then have several options for integrating the two models.
- Update imported models
You can compare a monitor model in the workspace with a monitor model in the file system. Typically, the monitor model in the workspace was imported from WebSphere Business Modeler (and possibly changed in the monitor model editor) and the monitor model in the file system was updated in WebSphere Business Modeler and exported again. You can merge the two monitor models so that your previous updates are not lost.
- Returning results to WebSphere Business Modeler using tracking keys
If you want to return runtime values collected from Business Monitor to WebSphere Business Modeler, you require a measure with a tracking key for each value to be returned. Tracking keys are used to correlate the elements between the monitoring result and the process model.