12.1 Introduction to Monitoring with Oracle ESB Control

Oracle ESB Control is used at runtime to monitor message instance processing across an ESB flow in a schematic diagram, allowing you to determine the success of the processing and correct problems if they occur.

With Oracle ESB Control, you have a graphical representation of the ESB flow. You can view the connections among the various Oracle Enterprise Service Bus services in the schematic diagram. In addition, you can view system, group, and service definition details, including URLs required to call ESB services from applications that are external to ESB. You can also update and delete ESB systems, routing services, and SOAP invocation services.

Oracle ESB Control enables you to view, modify, and define routing rules for routing services, including filter expressions, transformations, and execution type (synchronous or asynchronous) to fine tune the runtime processing.

You can view error conditions within a schematic, including the messages that did not reach their destination. Error handling in Oracle ESB Control provides for resubmitting messages that can be retried.

Read this chapter to understand:

• How to monitor a message instance flow with Oracle ESB Control

• How to review and update ESB system definitions with Oracle ESB Control

• How to review and update ESB service definitions with Oracle ESB Control

• How to handle runtime errors with Oracle ESB Control

For more information about Oracle ESB Control, see "Monitoring the Enterprise Service Bus" in Oracle Enterprise Service Bus Developer's Guide.