IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.2: Implementation and Administration

Course Description

This 3-day instructor-led course teaches students how to implement and administer IBM WebSphere Business Monitor while also training students in business process management (BPM) techniques and skills.

WebSphere Business Monitor is a business activity monitoring (BAM) product that can measure business performance, monitor both in-flight and completed processes, and report on business operations. The information provided by WebSphere Business Monitor can be used to identify business problems, correct exceptions, and improve processes, all of which can result in a more efficient and competitive business organization.

In this course, students learn how to implement, administer, and deploy WebSphere Business Monitor so that they can generate real-time business views of enterprise data. In addition to these technical skills, students also learn how to build monitor models, establish performance metrics, monitor events, manage action services, debug the model, and build a business space dashboard.

Hands-on exercises focus on developing the skills needed to implement a BPM solution. Students gain direct experience using the various components of WebSphere Business Monitor, such as DB2 Alphablox and the Monitor Development Toolkit, along with other products such as WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Process Server. Students also use the Monitor Model Toolkit to develop a monitor model, and then test the model in the WebSphere Integration Developer test environment. After deploying the business application to WebSphere Process Server and deploying the monitoring model on WebSphere Business Monitor, students build customized business space dashboards and analyze and troubleshoot process performance.

For information on other related WebSphere courses, visit the WebSphere Education Training Paths Web site:

• http://www.ibm.com/software/websphere/education/paths/

Skills Gained

• Course introduction
• Overview: SOA, BPM, BAM, and WebSphere Business Monitor
• Exercise: Exploring WebSphere Business Monitor
• WebSphere Business Monitor architecture and installation
• Monitoring events
• Exercise: Exploring CEI in WebSphere Process Server
• Monitor Development Toolkit and monitoring concepts
• Concepts of dimensional and visual models
• Defining elements using Monitor Model Editor
• Defining dimensional, KPI, and visual models
• Exercise: Building the monitor model with the Monitor Model Toolkit
• Deploying a monitor model
• Exercise: Deploying and running the monitor model and the application
• Managing action services and event emissions
• Exercise: Managing action services
• Administering WebSphere Business Monitor and monitor models
• Exercise: Administering WebSphere Business Monitor and monitor models
• Managing business processes using WebSphere Business Monitor business space dashboards
• Exercise: Building dashboards in WebSphere Business Monitor
• Debugging WebSphere Business Monitor
• Course summary

Who Can Benefit

This is an intermediate course designed for:

• Implementation consultants
• Integration developers
• IT specialists
• Project managers
• Support engineers
• Technical business analysts

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have a fundamental understanding of SOA and other related WebSphere products, which can be gained through experience or by successfully completing the following courses:

• Getting Started with SOA (WS007) (VS007)
• Using IBM WebSphere Business Modeler, Monitor, and Process Server for BPM (WB171) (VB171)

Note: To implement WebSphere Business Monitor in the field, a thorough understanding of WebSphere Application Server is required. WebSphere Application Server administration is covered in other courses, such as IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Administration on Windows (WA361) (VA361), Administration of WebSphere Application Server V6.1 (WA367), and IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Advanced Administration (WA761). For more information, see the WebSphere Education Web site at www.ibm.com/websphere/education.