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Monitoring events

In IBM Integration Designer, you can use the event monitor to enable the generation and monitoring of Common Base Event events and have them managed by the services of the Common Event Infrastructure (CEI). You can generate events for business processes, inline and stand-alone human tasks, and other components and then use the IBM Business Monitor development toolkit to work with the monitor models that use these events.

In IBM Integration Designer, there is limited ability to emit an instance of an event type that is defined by one of the component tools. However, you can use the standard org.eclipse.hyades.logging APIs to build your own event emitter.

The following topics describe the generation and monitoring of events in IBM Integration Designer.

• Event generation and monitoring
  In IBM Integration Designer, you can enable 6.0.2 event generation or 7.0 monitor model generation for many of the business integration components produced by the editing tools, such as business processes and business rules. The primary tool for enabling event generation and monitoring in IBM Integration Designer is the event monitor.
• Monitorable components and elements in IBM Integration Designer
  In IBM Integration Designer, you can use the event monitor to enable event generation and monitoring for a wide variety of business integration components and their elements.
• Default events for business processes in IBM Integration Designer
  In IBM Integration Designer, there are default events for certain activities in business processes.
• Business Process Choreographer and runtime events
  This topic directs you to the appropriate topics on Business Process Choreographer events, including business process events and human task events. It also directs you to documentation on IBM BPM runtime events.
• Configure IBM BPM to support event monitoring in IBM Integration Designer
  

  If you chose to install IBM Process Server as the test environment when installed IBM Integration Designer, then IBM BPM has been automatically configured to support CEI and audit event monitoring in IBM Integration Designer. However, if you want to generate and monitor events for business processes and human tasks, you must manually enable CEI logging or audit logging in the business process container and human task container of IBM BPM.

• Opening the event monitor
  In IBM Integration Designer, you can use the event monitor to enable (or disable) event and monitor model generation and monitoring. The event monitor is accessible as a properties page in many of the IBM Integration Designer editors.
• Specifying event properties for component elements
  In the event monitor, you can specify event properties for individual component elements that you have selected in a component editor.

  For example, you can choose whether to generate all events, or selected events, or no events for a component element. You can also specify other event properties for a selected component element, such as the content level and transaction behavior.

• Specifying event properties for components
  In the event monitor, you can globally specify event properties for all monitorable elements in a component.

  For example, you can specify 6.0.2, 7.0, or hexBinary format for the generated events associated with all of your component elements. And if you are specifying event properties for a business process, you can enable or disable the default events for all of your business process activities.

• Viewing CEI events
  In IBM Integration Designer, you can use the Common Base Event browser of the IBM Integration Designer test environment to view generated Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) events. Using the Common Base Event browser, you can view detailed information associated with each event and determine if the events were correctly emitted.

Monitoring events