Duration
3 days
Course Overview
An updated version of this course is available. For more information, click Developing Applications with IBM Business Monitor V7.5 (WB797).
In this 3-day instructor-led course, students learn how to develop monitoring applications with IBM WebSphere Business Monitor while also learning business process management (BPM) techniques and skills.
WebSphere Business Monitor is a business activity monitoring (BAM) product that supports BPM by measuring business performance, monitoring both inflight and completed processes, and reporting on business transactions. Business organizations can use the information provided by WebSphere Business Monitor to identify business problems, correct exceptions, and improve processes and efficiency.
This course includes topics of interest to those who want to develop applications using the WebSphere Business Monitor environment. Students interested in learning how to administer WebSphere Business Monitor should take course Administering IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V7 (WB794) or (VB794). Business analysts who want to learn how to design business measures using WebSphere Business Monitor should take course Business Activity Monitoring with IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V7 (WB795) or (VB795).
In this course, students learn how to develop, implement, and test WebSphere Business Monitor applications so that they can generate real-time business views of enterprise data. The course begins with an overview of BAM and BPM in a service-oriented architecture (SOA), and the capabilities that WebSphere Business Monitor provides. In subsequent units, students learn how to build monitor models, establish performance metrics, monitor events, manage action services, debug the model, and build a business space dashboard. Students also learn how to enable events from various sources, including WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Message Broker, and other products.
The hands-on exercises provided throughout the course enable students to develop and implement a monitoring solution. This includes how to use 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. Students use the Monitor Development Toolkit to develop a monitor model, and then test the model using the WebSphere Integration Test client. Students also build customized business space dashboards that can be used to analyze and troubleshoot process performance.
Training Paths that reference this course are:
- Solution Architect skills for IBM WebSphere Business Process Management V7 Products
- Application Developer skills for IBM WebSphere Business Process Management V7 Products
- System Administrator skills for IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V7
- Application Developer skills for IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V7
- Integration Developer skills for IBM WebSphere Business Process Management V7 Products
- Application Developer skills for IBM WebSphere Business Process Management V7 Products
Special Note
IBM Education Advantage Eligibility:
- Yes - IBM Education Pack - Online Account
Audience
This intermediate course is for:
- Implementation consultants
- Integration developers
- IT specialists
- Project managers
- Technical business analysts
- Support engineers
Pre-requisites
Students should have a fundamental understanding of service-oriented architecture and related WebSphere products, which can be gained either through experience or by successfully completing the following courses:
- Getting Started with SOA (WS007) or (VS007)
- Using IBM WebSphere V7 Products for Business Process Management (WB771) or (VB771)
Skills Taught
- Explain monitoring concepts
- Describe the architecture of WebSphere Business Monitor V7
- Explain service-oriented architecture (SOA) and how it is supported by WebSphere Business Monitor
- Explain how WebSphere Business Monitor retrieves business data from various sources
- Develop the business measures model
- Test and implement the business measures model using the Integration Test Client
- Configure the Action Services Manager
- Explain the concept of a business space
- Configure various widgets in a business space
Course outline
- Course introduction
- Overview: SOA, BPM, BAM, and WebSphere Business Monitor
- Exercise: Exploring WebSphere Business Monitor
- WebSphere Business Monitor architecture and integration
- Monitoring events
- Exercise: Selecting events and generating a monitor model
- Monitor Development Toolkit and monitoring concepts
- Defining elements using Monitor Model Editor
- Exercise: Building the monitor model with the Monitor Development Toolkit - Part 1
- Concepts of dimensional and visual models
- Defining dimensional, KPI, and visual models
- Exercise: Building the monitor model with the Monitor Development Toolkit - Part 2
- Deploying a monitor model
- Exercise: Deploying and running the monitor model and the application
- Managing action services and event emissions
- Exercise: Managing action services
- Using the Integrated Test Client
- Exercise: Using the Integrated Test Client
- Managing business processes using WebSphere Business Monitor business space dashboards
- Exercise: Building dashboards in WebSphere Business Monitor
- Debugging WebSphere Business Monitor
- Processing events from other products
- Exercise: Processing events from WebSphere Message Broker
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.