The WebSphere® Business Monitor Version 6.0 is a Web-based client/server application that measures business performance, monitors processes and work flow, and reports on business operations. The information captured can help you identify problems, correct faults, and change processes to achieve a more efficient business.
WebSphere Business Monitor monitors business processes at runtime by monitoring event-emitting runtime engines. Only applications that are running on WebSphere Process Server Version 6.0.1 are currently supported.
WebSphere Business Monitor calculates Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and metrics using collected events, based on a given model. The calculated KPIs and metrics values are represented on a number of views based on business needs. WebSphere Business Monitor notifies users of incidents requiring their attention and can also perform corrective actions to avoid failures. It supports different notification methods (Alert, E-mail, Cell Phone, Pager, and service invocation) against situations and actions associated with defined conditions.
WebSphere Business Monitor depends on business measures models for its monitoring procedure. These models are created in the Business Measures editor where you can specify the measuring points and event filters, define the measurements, their correlations, and sources of the business data. When the business measures model is complete, you can export it to WebSphere Business Monitor. It then recognizes the model to be monitored and the measurements to be captured from the incoming events.
You use the Business Measures editor to open the process models created in WebSphere Business Modeler and to create business measures models. For each business measures model, you can define the metrics and KPIs, event emission points, event filters, event composition rules, and situations that will trigger specific actions at runtime.
To sum up, to monitor your business operations, WebSphere Business Monitor: