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  1. Introduction to BPM
  2. From project to program
  3. End-to-end monitoring

End-to-end monitoring

The Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) provided by IBM Business Process  Manager provides built-in and automatic visibility of processes defined in the BPMN model in Process Designer.

When your goal is to extend BAM to end-to-end visibility across business processes, you have processes:

  • that span organizational boundaries with independent project life cycles.
  • implemented with a combination of a BPM system and existing applications or infrastructure.
  • that are not yet implemented in a BPM system. End-to-end visibility drives priority of improvements.

You can achieve this goal easily through enabling business monitoring support for IBM Business Monitor. With business monitoring, you can report on events from BPMN and BPEL processes and SCA and mediation events, which can be specified in the IBM Integration Designer tool. You can also combine events from  external systems for end-to-end business operations.

Activating business monitoring with IBM Business Monitor can be done at two levels within IBM Business Process Manager:

  • Generated monitor model: Monitors BPMN events only (modeled in Process Designer )
  • Custom-developed monitor model: Monitors BPMN and other BPM events (modeled in Integrated Designer )

Enabling process monitoring through IBM Business Monitor is performed on a process application level. This action generates a monitor model. The monitor  model comes with an auto-generated dashboard for each process application in  business space. The generated monitor model subscribes to the events emitted by all BPDs contained in the process application and any referenced toolkits.

In the Integration Designer tool, you can create a custom monitor model to  monitor your BPMN, BPEL, SCA, and mediation events, or started products. The starting point for this custom model is the monitor model generated from the  process application. During the generation step, you can fine-tune the events to  include in the generated models.

The monitor project can be associated with a process application in the Process Center and published online.