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Administer your monitoring environment

After install IBM Business Monitor, you can use the WebSphere Application Server administrative console to perform administrative tasks, based on your login information (access rights) for WebSphere Application Server.

To deploy Business Monitor models, you can use either the WebSphere Application Server administrative console or scripts.

In the navigation pane of the WebSphere Application Server administrative console, under Applications, the nodes for Monitor Models, Data Movement Service, Monitor Action Services, and Recorded Event Management are displayed.

• In the Monitor Models node, you can manage your monitor models.

  For example, you can deploy a specific version of the model on the Business Monitor server and specify configuration properties.

• In the Data Movement Service node, you can enable a process that periodically copies data from the operational tables to the reporting tables and removes terminated instances from the operational tables.

• In the Monitor Action Services node, you can access the Monitor Action Services to define an action for a situation event and bind that action to the event.

• In the Recorded Event Management node, you can start and stop event recording. You can also delete, export, and import events, and play back events that you recorded.

• In the Troubleshooting node, you can perform Business Monitor logging and tracing tasks.

  For example, you can specify how the server handles log records and the location of log data. You can also select a format for the log content, and you can specify the log detail level for components and groups of components.

• Key concepts for administering monitor models
  Before you start to administer monitor models in IBM Business Monitor, you need to understand key concepts, including strategies for processing and creating model versions.
• Deploying and administering monitor models
  Deploy a monitor model and perform various administrative tasks to maintain that model.
• Integrating with event emitters
  

  You can configure your environment to work with the many different types of event emitters that IBM Business Monitor supports.

• Configure alerts
  IBM Business Monitor manages action services and event emissions using monitor action services. The monitor action services receives situation events emitted by applications, selects appropriate actions based on user-defined rules and policies, and invokes one or more actions in the form of alerts.
• Manage events
  This section describes how to manage events, including how to record and play back events, view events with the Common Base Event browser, and handle event sequencing.
• Maintaining the monitoring environment
  As the administrator, you continually scrutinize the general monitoring environment, searching for ways to improve its efficiency and avoid future problems. IBM Business Monitor provides several tools and approaches to help you with this effort.
• Administer dashboard spaces
  Administering spaces involves enabling tracing, working with templates, and removing widgets.