Configuring CEI Bus on a remote WebSphere Application Server cell

WebSphere® Business Monitor performs its operation by reading the messages that contain the events from the queue destination named Monitor_Bus_Queue_Destination that gets these events from the Common Events Infrastructure (CEI) Bus. The events are emitted to the CEI Bus by the applications that runs on the BPEL engine in WebSphere Process Server.

WebSphere Business Monitor runs on WebSphere Process Server 6.0.0, and it only supports applications running on the BPEL engine in WebSphere Process Server 6.0.1. Based on this topology, the events are emitted in a CEI Bus that is located in remote WebSphere Application Server cells, which means the event messages must be delivered from this CEI Bus to the foreign queue destination named Monitor_Bus_Queue_Destination that is located in the WebSphere Application Server cell that hosts the Monitor Server component.

You can configure this environment by:
  1. Set up a Service Integration Bus Link between the bus containing the Monitor_Bus_Queue_Destination and a bus in the remote WebSphere Application Server cell that contains the event emitting application (the runtime engine).
  2. Define the Monitor_Bus_Queue_Destination as a foreign queue destination on the remote WebSphere Application Server cell.
  3. Configure the CEI on the remote WebSphere Application Server cell to deliver event messages to the foreign queue destination Monitor_Bus_Queue_Destination.

The detailed instructions of performing the above steps can be found on the topic named Foreign destinations in the WebSphere Application Server and the WebSphere Process Server documentation.

You can use a provided sample of script files in order to configure the cross cell monitoring environment instead of performing these instructions manually. You can also use these scripts to reset the configuration that you made. The following are the steps of running the cross cell monitoring configuration scripts to configure the CEI bus in a remote WebSphere Application Server cell and to reset the configuration.


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