Adaptive Action Manager overview

The Adaptive Action Manager is a key component of WebSphere® Business Monitor. It receives situation events emitted by the WebSphere Business Monitor; and potentially, by other applications; selects appropriate actions, based on predefined rules and policies by the business user; and invokes a selected action or a set of actions.

Assume there is a process in your business where you want to detect a particular business situation when it happens. A business situation is a condition where one or more actions needs to be taken. For this condition, a business situation needs to be defined to be triggered when the condition occurs. For example, a situation is defined to occur when a metric exceeds its acceptable threshold. You further define one or more events to be emitted when this situation is triggered. These are defined in the Business Measures editor in WebSphere Business Modeler.

After the business measures models is imported to WebSphere Business Monitor, each time the situation occurs (a metric exceeds its threshold limit or a situation occurs on time), an event is emitted. To be aware of this business situation, you need to be notified when it happens. The emission of an event alone does not notify you. The Adaptive Action Manager dispatches a notification of the business situation and takes one or more actions to address the situation.

To ensure the notifications and the actions take place, you have to perform the following tasks:

When the Adaptive Action Manager receives those situation events, it applies the definitions and the bindings that you have set for those events, invokes the action services identified by the templates bound to the situation event, and notifies you with the situation in the manner you specified.

The Adaptive Action Manager:

Related concepts
Adaptive Action Manager administration
Adaptive Action Manager components
Situation events description
Exception handling
Related tasks
Configuring Adaptive Action Manager properties
Registering an action service
Updating action services template definitions
Binding a situation event with action services

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