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Tutorial: Using the Common Event Infrastructure server for event monitoring

This tutorial guides you through an example of setting up monitoring with the CEI server, and how to view events stored in the database.

For service component event points that you monitor, events can be published to the Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) server and stored in the CEI server database. Once events have been captured, use the Common Base Event browser to view those stored events. The example you use in this scenario does not involve static monitoring, whereby an application deployed with a .mon file continually monitors specific service components event points. For information about how to perform static monitoring, consult the IBM Integration Designer Information Center.

The scenario you follow for this example, instead, shows you how to select for monitoring event points on service components in applications already deployed and running on a server. You can see how the monitoring function fires an event whenever the processing of an application reaches one of those event points. Each of those fired events are published to the CEI server, which stores the event information about its database. You then use the Common Base Event browser to view the events.

Objectives of this tutorial

After completing this tutorial you will be able to:

• Select service component event points to monitor, with events published to the CEI server.
• View the stored events with the Common Base Event browser.

Time required to complete this tutorial

This tutorial requires approximately 15-20 minutes to complete.

Prerequisites

In order to perform this tutorial, you must have:

• Configured and started a server.

• Configured the CEI and its database.
• Enabled the diagnostic trace service on the server.

• Installed and started the Samples Gallery application on the server.

• Installed and started the business rules sample application on the server. Follow the instructions on the Samples Gallery page to set up and run the business rules sample application.

After all these prerequisites have been completed, run the business rules sample application from the Samples Gallery at least once before proceeding with the tutorial.

• Example: Monitoring with the Common Event Infrastructure server
  For monitoring with the CEI server, you can use the administrative console to manage the details for event types and to display recorded events in the Common Base Event browser. This example shows the use of the console to change the level of detail recorded for some event types and to use the Common Base Event browser to view the information for individual events.

Monitoring service components with the Common Event Infrastructure server

Related concepts:
Event catalog

Related tasks:
Enabling the diagnostic trace service
Viewing events with the Common Base Event browser:
Administer Common Event Infrastructure:

Related information:
Installing and accessing the Samples Gallery