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Specifying event properties for components

In the event monitor, you can globally specify event properties for all monitorable elements in a component.

For example, you can specify 6.0.2, 7.0, or hexBinary format for the generated events associated with all of your component elements. And if you are specifying event properties for a business process, you can enable or disable the default events for all of your business process activities.

To specify event properties for components...


Procedure

  1. In your component editor, select a monitorable element in your component. (Alternatively, you can also select the entire component at the component-level.

    For example, if you want to specify event properties for an entire business process, you would select the business process in the business process editor tray.) The Global Event Settings tab appears beneath the Event Monitor tab in the Properties view.

  2. Click the Global Event Settings tab. The Global Event Settings page opens.

  3. Select one of the following options:

    • If you want to generate your events in WebSphere Business Monitor 6.1, 6.2, or 7.0 XML format with schema support, ensure that WebSphere Business Monitor 6.1, 6.2 or 7.0 format (XML with schema support) is selected. This is the default selection. Events generated with a version 6.1, 6.2, or 7.0 XML business object format can be monitored using IBM Business Monitor or viewed using the Common Base Event browser of IBM Process Server. (If you select this option and the IBM Business Monitor development toolkit is installed, the Monitor Tools > Generate Monitor Model context menu item will be available for your module. However, the Generate Event Definition pop-up menu item will not be available for supported components in the module regardless of whether the toolkit is installed. Additional information is found in the "Generating event definitions" topic.)

    • If you want to generate your events in WebSphere Business Monitor 6.0.2 older version XML format, select WebSphere Business Monitor 6.0.2 format (older version XML). Events generated with a version 6.0.2 XML business object format can be monitored using IBM Business Monitor or viewed using the Common Base Event browser of IBM Process Server. (If you select this option, the Generate Event Definition context menu item is available for supported components in the module. However, the Generate Monitor Model pop-up menu item will not be available for your module regardless of whether the IBM Business Monitor development toolkit is installed. Additional information is found in the "Generating event definitions" topic.)

    • If you want to generate your events with a hexBinary business object format, select Legacy hexBinary. Events generated in hexBinary format are not compatible with IBM Business Monitor. They are only compatible with those custom tools that are capable of interpreting hexBinary events. However, you can view events with a hexBinary business object format in the Common Base Event browser of IBM BPM.

  4. If you have opened the event monitor in the business process editor, complete one of the following steps:

    • If you want to disable the default events for the Process, Pick, Receive, Reply, Invoke, Scope, and Human Task activities, ensure that Disable Default Events (recommended) is selected. This is the default selection.

    • If you want to enable the default events for the Process, Pick, Receive, Reply, Invoke, Scope, and Human Task activities, select Enable Default Events. (The default events for these activities are listed in the topic "Default events for business processes.")

  5. Press Ctrl-S to save the event monitor settings. A monitoring (.mon) file is generated or regenerated in the Physical Resources view to store your event monitoring specifications. The next time that you deploy and run your monitored component, events will be generated for each monitorable element that you have chosen to monitor in the component.


What to do next

After you have specified event properties for your component, you may want to deploy and run your component and view the generated events in the Common Base Event browser, as described in the topic "Viewing CEI events."

You may want to use the event definition generator to generate event definitions or monitor models for the events that you have selected in the event monitor. Event definitions are files that define the structure of emitted events that are based on the Common Base Event specification. Information about generating event definitions is found in the event definition generator topic "Generating event definitions." However, you must have the IBM Business Monitor development toolkit installed to work with event definitions. The toolkit enables you to associate your event definitions with a monitor model and then add business metrics to the event definitions in the monitor model editor. You can later deploy the monitor model and event definitions to an IBM Business Monitor server and monitor the events in the IBM Business Monitor dashboard. Information about using the toolkit to work with event definitions is found in the IBM Business Monitor development toolkit documentation.

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