Before you begin installing WebSphere® Business Monitor,
you should become familiar with the following information that will help you
to perform a successful installation.
WebSphere Business Monitor is a client/server
Web application that runs in a WebSphere Process Server Version 6
environment. WebSphere Business Monitor consists
of several components. Most of these components are packaged as Enterprise
Archive (.ear) or Web Archive (.war) files that are installed and deployed
on an application server in WebSphere Application
Server.
The following is a list of all WebSphere Business Monitor components
with a short description:
- Monitor Server: Is the core component of WebSphere Business Monitor.
It is responsible for consuming events from the Common Event Infrastructure
(CEI) and processing these events to calculate the measurements and their
values. The installation of the Monitor Server component also includes the
installation of the Adaptive Action Manager,
the component responsible for providing different types of business responses
as results of the situations expressed within the incoming events. Both the
Monitor Server and Adaptive Action Manager components
are delivered as enterprise applications (.ear) that are hosted on WebSphere Application
Server Version 6.0.
- Dashboard Client: Is another server component of the WebSphere Business Monitor and
provides the runtime environment for what are known as dashboards. The dashboards
are implemented as portal pages that operate within the WebSphere Portal environment.
Each dashboard can consist of one or more views. The Dashboard Client is delivered
as a set of Web Archive (.war) files that are installed and configured on
the WebSphere Portal.
- Databases: Are the data storage component that provides the Monitor
Server with the required information for event processing and
provides the dashboards with the required information for views. There are
four databases: State, Runtime, Historical, and Repository. These databases
must be created and configured before any of the WebSphere Business Monitor components
can be installed. Another database, the Action Catalog database, is used to
store the information used by the Adaptive Action Manager.
- Monitor Administration: Provides the administrative functions for WebSphere Business Monitor as an extension to the WebSphere Application
Server Administrative Console in the
form of plug-ins. After the successful installation of WebSphere Business Monitor components,
the WebSphere Business Monitor node
becomes available on the WebSphere Application
Server Administrative
Console. Through this node, you can access and administer different WebSphere Business Monitor functions using your login
information (access rights) to the WebSphere Application
Server.
WebSphere Business Monitor is installed using
the WebSphere Business Monitor Launchpad, a program
that creates the required databases and installs the different components
of WebSphere Business Monitor. The Launchpad
also checks whether the software prerequisites needed by the WebSphere Business Monitor components
are installed and directs you to install any missing prerequisites.
Refer to the section named Installation scenarios under the WebSphere Business Monitor installation instructions section
in the WebSphere Business Monitor documentation
for details about the supported installation scenarios.