Oracle Business Activity Monitoring 11g: Build Real-Time Dashboards NEW

Course Description

Oracle BAM is a complete solution for building real-time operational dashboards, monitoring and alerting applications over the web.In this offering participants learn the Oracle BAM architecture and to perform basic administration tasks. They become familiar with creating and working with message sources that feed data into Oracle BAM. They also build interactive, real time dashboards, and proactive alerts in which this information is displayed. Concepts such as filters, prompts, parameters, drilling, and driving are covered, with hands-on exercises showcasing these concepts. In addition, they also learn to monitor composite applications with sensors and Oracle BAM, and create and use Oracle BAM data control.Learn to:Define Enterprise Message Sources Define Data Objects within the Active Data Cache Monitor composite applications with Sensors and Oracle BAM Create, save, edit, view, and share reports and dashboards Create and use Oracle BAM data control Administer BAM by creating users, groups and assigning roles

Skills Gained

• Describe the Oracle BAM architecture
• Describe and perform the administration tasks required for configuring and administering the Oracle BAM infrastructure
• Define Enterprise Message Sources and how they are used in Oracle BAM
• Describe and define data objects
• Describe and use alerts with reports.
• Describe and use the various view types within Oracle BAM
• Use filters for selective data reporting
• Include prompts and parameters for interactive reporting
• Navigate reports using the drilling and driving concepts
• Include interactive buttons to create actionable reports
• Define Data Objects within the Active Data Cache.
• Create and use Oracle BAM data control
• Describe how Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) provides a business solution for monitoring enterprise business services in real time

Who Can Benefit

• Administrator
• Architect
• Business Analysts
• SOA Architect
• System Integrator

Prerequisites

• Knowledge of SOA architecture

Syllabus

Introduction

• Overview of the Course
• Describe the audience, prerequisites, and course content
• Describe the Course Objectives
• Overview of Course Units and Lessons

Overview of Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

• Identify where BAM fits within a Service-Oriented Architecture and BPM Suite
• Explain the purpose of Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
• Describe the Oracle BAM architecture components
• List the features of the Architect application
• Identify the features of Active Studio
• List the features of Active Viewer

Oracle BAM Administration

• Describe the basic functions of Oracle BAM Administrator
• Create users, roles, and assign tasks to roles
• Populate users in BAM
• Use ICommand to interact with the Active Data Cache
• Discuss the scalability of the Oracle BAM architecture

Defining Message and Data Sources

• Describe Enterprise Message Sources
• Explain how Oracle BAM uses Enterprise Message Sources
• Identify the types of Enterprise Message Sources and explain how to configure them
• Describe external data sources
• Define and view external data sources

Defining Data Objects

• Create, edit, and delete the Active Data Cache (ADC) data objects
• Identify the types of data objects
• Describe dimensions and hierarchies
• Describe security data filters
• Describe the purpose and functionality of: Calculated fields
• Describe the purpose and functionality of: Lookup fields
• Describe the purpose and functionality of: External data objects

Basic Reporting with BAM

• Describe the benefits, concepts, and process of creating reports
• Create, view, share, save, and edit reports
• Describe the different view types available in Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
• Describe the functionality and properties of the view types
• Use the views to create Oracle BAM reports
• Create and manage filters for selective data reporting
• Define prompts and parameters in reports

Advanced Reporting

• Create advanced reports by using drilling
• Describe the various drilling options
• Configure driving in Oracle BAM reports
• Navigate in Oracle BAM reports by using driving
• Create actionable reports by defining Action Buttons
• Describe the action types available in Oracle BAM
• Create and use time-based filtering

Alerts

• Describe alerts
• Use rules to create alerts
• Define actions for alerts
• Monitor KPIs and SLAs by using alerts
• Use alerts to schedule reports
• Call external Web services from alerts

Designing Effective Dashboards

• Describe report beautification
• Identify best practices for designing reports
• Adjust view properties to customize reports

Monitoring Composite Applications with Sensors and Oracle BAM

• Describe event sourcing for BAM
• Provide an overview of the Oracle BAM Adapter technology
• Create BAM Adapter at the composite level
• Integrate BPEL sensors with Oracle BAM
• Use BPEL Process Manager to create sensors
• Define a BAM sensor action
• View sensors output in BPEL Process Manager console
• Monitor process flow using Monitor Express Dashboard

Using Oracle BAM Data Control

• Provide an overview of Oracle BAM Data Control
• Create projects that can use Oracle BAM Data Controls
• Create BAM Server connections
• Expose Oracle BAM with Oracle ADF Data Controls
• Create Oracle BAM Data Control queries
• Use Oracle BAM Data Controls in ADF Pages
• Deploy applications with Oracle BAM Data Control

Best Practices with BAM

• Identify and use best practices for dashboard performance
• Identify and use best practices when designing BAM schemas
• Identify and use best practices during BAM data archiving