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Generated monitor models
A generated monitor model is one that is created automatically when you enable business monitoring support for a process application in Process Center or Process Designer. It is generated when you deploy a snapshot with monitoring support enabled to a process server, or when you click File > Update Tracking Definitions in the Process Center.
The generated monitor model contains metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) that capture the key aspects of a process execution (for example, when it starts and ends, or how long each step takes to complete). It also contains the default KPIs, auto-tracked fields, and fields defined in custom tracking events.
When the business process definition (BPD) is run in the Inspector view or the process application snapshot is deployed, monitoring data is collected and sent to a custom dashboard available in Business Space.
Custom dashboard
The custom dashboard contains a KPI, Instance, and Report tab for each BPD as well as one Diagram tab for the business process.
Each Instances page contains two instances widgets, one for the BPD and one for the process application (if the business process definition contains intermediate tracking events).The values for the activity KPIs (Total time, Wait time, Execution time) are calculated only for activities in the process and not for tracking events or decision nodes.
Business Space dashboards are not deleted or updated when a process is deployed: a new Business Space dashboard is generated.
If you change your process application, you can regenerate the monitor model to capture the updates. This is particularly important when you make changes, such as adding a new tracking event; if you do not update the monitor model, those new events are not monitored.
The Business Space dashboards are owned by the administrator ID for Monitor installation. When you generate a dashboard, you have edit authority for that dashboard.
Security role for deploying a monitor model
To deploy a monitor model with a process application snapshot, the user or group to which you belong must have been assigned the Deployer administrative security role.If you are not currently assigned to the Deployer role, perform the following task:
- Log in to the administrative console.
- Click Users and Groups > Administrative User roles or Users and Groups > Administrative Group roles.
- Select your user or group to open it.
- Under Roles, select Deployer and click OK.
- Generate and using a default monitor model
When you enable business monitoring support for a process application in the Process Designer, a monitor model is automatically generated based on the tracking points, auto-tracked fields, and default KPIs defined in the business process definition. You can run this generated monitor model on the Process Center server or you can deploy it with a process application snapshot on a process server.- Update a generated monitor model
If you make changes to your process application that might affect the current monitor model (adding, changing, or removing auto-tracked fields or tracking group definitions, or adding new processes), any existing generated monitor model should also be updated to capture those changes and deliver complete performance data to the monitoring dashboard. An updated monitor model version has the same ID but a unique timestamp.
- Replacing a generated monitor model with a new monitor model
If you want to replace an existing generated monitor model on the Process Center server with a new model, you must disable business monitoring support in the process application, make any necessary changes to your process application, and then re-enable business monitoring support.
- Disabling business monitoring
If you no longer want to capture performance monitoring data for your process applications using IBM Business Monitor, disable the business monitoring support. On the Process Center server, this disables and removes all existing monitor models and monitoring data for the process application.
- Default metrics and Key Performance Indicators for process applications
Generated monitor models contain numerous default metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for a process application.- Activity Statistics diagram
An Activity Statistics diagram is a visual representation of a business process flow that displays time and cost statistics for the process activities. Activity Statistics diagrams are automatically generated when a default monitor model is generated and the diagrams can be displayed in the Diagrams tab of the generated dashboard. You can change the rendering of the diagram in the Diagrams tab to display different statistics.