IBM Integration Bus, Version 10.0.0.9 Operating Systems: AIX, HP-Itanium, Linux, Solaris, Windows, z/OS


Configuring the IBM Cloud Product Insights service

Configure the Product Insights service in IBM® Bluemix™, to enable it to receive startup and usage information about IBM Integration Bus integration servers.

Before you begin

Create an account in IBM Bluemix. In the IBM Bluemix welcome page, click Sign up and follow the instructions to create your account. For more information, see Setting up your account.

About this task

IBM Cloud Product Insights is a Bluemix service that is part of IBM Connect to Cloud. Ensure that your version and fix pack level of IBM Integration Bus is compatible with the level of the Product Insights service before you enable IBM Integration Bus to connect to it.

For more information about Product Insights, see IBM Cloud Product Insights overview.

Procedure

Complete the following steps to configure an instance of the Product Insights service in Bluemix:

  1. Login to your Bluemix account by clicking Log In in the IBM Bluemix welcome page.
  2. When you are prompted to create a space for your organization, enter your organization name and then click Create. For more information about organizations and spaces, see the Bluemix documentation.
  3. Create your instance of the Product Insights service:
    1. In the menu bar at the top of the Bluemix user interface, click Catalog.
    2. Scroll to the end of the displayed catalog and click Bluemix Services.
    3. In the Integrate section, click the Cloud Product Insights tile. The service details page is displayed, showing details of the free service. Default names are supplied, which you can change if you want to.
    4. Click Create. Your service is now available.

    For more information about creating an instance of a Product Insights service, see the IBM Cloud Product Insights documentation.

  4. Click your new service tile to open it. The service dashboard is shown, containing the following tabs:
    • Getting started
    • Manage
    • Service credentials
    • Connections.
  5. Click the Service Credentials tab. The list of credentials for your products is displayed.
  6. Click View Credentials for your new service, to show the API host and the API key that will be used for the connection to your IBM Integration Bus integration servers.
  7. Copy the API host URL from the Service Credentials tab, so that you can paste it into the -j (API host) parameter of the mqsichangebluemixreporting command when you configure your IBM Integration Bus integration servers.
  8. Copy the API key from the Service Credentials tab, so that you can paste it into the -k (API key) parameter of the mqsichangebluemixreporting command when you configure your IBM Integration Bus integration servers. For information about configuring your integration servers to report to your Product Insights service, see Configuring an integration server to send startup and usage information to IBM Cloud Product Insights.

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