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Developing Applications with IBM Business Monitor V8 (WB891)

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About this Course

This course is also available as self-paced virtual (e-learning) course, Developing Applications with IBM Business Monitor V8 (ZB891). This option does not require any travel.

This course is also available as instructor-led online course Developing Applications with IBM Business Monitor V8 (Remote Classroom) (VB891). Please note that this option does not require any travel.

Audience Profile

This intermediate course is designed for:

  • Implementation consultants
  • Integration developers
  • IT specialists
  • Project managers

At Course Completion

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Explain monitoring concepts
  • Describe the architecture of IBM Business Monitor
  • Explain SOA and how IBM Business Monitor supports it
  • Explain how IBM Business Monitor retrieves business data from various sources
  • Develop the business measures model
  • Use the Integration Test Client to test and implement the business measures
  • Configure the Action Services Manager
  • Explain the concept of a business space
  • Configure various widgets in a business space

Prerequisites

You should have a fundamental understanding of service-oriented architecture and related WebSphere products. This knowledge can be gained either through experience or by successfully completing the following courses:

  • Getting Started with SOA (WS007) (VS007) or (ZS007)
  • Using IBM WebSphere V7 Products for Business Process Management (WB771) or (VB771)

Course Outline

  1. Course introduction

  2. Overview: SOA, BPM, BAM, and IBM Business Monitor

  3. Exercise: Exploring IBM Business Monitor

  4. IBM Business Monitor architecture and integration

  5. Exercise: Creating a monitor model

  6. Monitoring events

  7. Exercise: Selecting events and generating a monitor model

  8. Monitor Development Toolkit and monitoring concepts

  9. Using the Monitor Model Editor to define elements

  10. Exercise: Building the monitor model with the Monitor Development Toolkit - Part 1

  11. Concepts of dimensional and visual models

  12. Defining dimensional, KPI, and visual models

  13. Exercise: Building the monitor model with the Monitor Development Toolkit - Part 2

  14. Deploying a monitor model

  15. Exercise: Deploying and running the monitor model and the application

  16. Managing action services and event emissions

  17. Exercise: Managing action services

  18. Using the Integrated Test Client

  19. Exercise: Using the Integrated Test Client

  20. Using IBM Business Monitor business space dashboards to manage business processes

  21. Exercise: Building dashboards in IBM Business Monitor

  22. Debugging IBM Business Monitor

  23. Processing events from other products

  24. Exercise: Processing events from WebSphere Message Broker

  25. Course summary