12.2 Components of Oracle ESB Control

Oracle ESB Control is vertically divided into two main parts: the Service Navigation tree and the Configuration panel.

Oracle ESB Control provides three views, which you select by clicking the icons that are across the top of Oracle ESB Control:

• Services view

  The Services view of Oracle ESB Control enables you to view system and service definitions, update routing rules, update endpoint properties, define trackable fields, and view a schematic diagram of the services.

• Instances view

  The Instances view of Oracle ESB Control enables you to view details about message processing across an ESB system.

• Maps view

  The Maps view of Oracle ESB Control enables you to create, update, and delete domain-value maps, as well as view, export, and import existing domain-value maps.

12.2.1 How to Open the Oracle ESB Control

After an ESB project has been completed and registered with the ESB Server or an integration server, you can view the project services in Oracle ESB Control.

To open Oracle ESB Control:

To open Oracle ESB Control, you need to navigate to the URL of the following form:

http://host_name:port_number/esb/

where host_name is the host computer where the ESB Server has been installed and port_number is the port number of the HTTP proxy server.

If the ESB installation is on Windows, you can open Oracle ESB Control by selecting All Programs > Oracle – Oracle_Home > Oracle ESB 10.1.3 > ESB Control from the desktop Start button, where Oracle_Home is the name of the Oracle home where you installed Oracle Enterprise Service Bus.

Note: Before opening Oracle ESB Control, you must have the ESB Server running. The process of starting and stopping the ESB server depends on the operating system where the ESB server is located. See Oracle Enterprise Service Bus Installation Guide and the Oracle Application Server installation guide for your operating system.