BEA AquaLogic Service Bus is part of BEA’s comprehensive business integration solutions. AquaLogic Service Bus is part of the BEA AquaLogic™ family of Service Infrastructure Products. AquaLogic Service Bus manages the transformation and routing of messages in an enterprise system and includes administration and monitoring capabilities. AquaLogic Service Bus is unified product for deploying and implementing Service Oriented Architecture.
This guide describes the functional scope of the roles available in AquaLogic Service Bus, monitoring services in AquaLogic Service Bus, using smart search, reporting, and tracing.
This document is intended for the following audience:
Operational Specialists: Operational specialists are responsible for monitoring services, servers and alerts in AquaLogic Service Bus.
Architects who design the security architecture of the enterprise system.
In order to understand the AquaLogic Service Bus Operations Guide you must be familiar with resources, proxy services, and business services in the AquaLogic Service Bus Console. For more information on resources, proxy services, and business services in the AquaLogic Service Bus Console, see AquaLogic Service Bus User Guide.
Roles in AquaLogic Service Bus
AquaLogic Service Bus Console offers restricted access by assigning roles to users. Each role in AquaLogic Service Bus has a limited functionality. Users in a given role can perform only those functions that are assigned to that role. The user interfaces that are available to the user in a particular role is limited and depends on the functionality of the role. AquaLogic Service Bus supports the following roles:
Roles in AquaLogic Service Bus: This section describes the different roles available AquaLogic Service Bus Console, the user interfaces that are available for each role, and the scope of each role.
Monitoring: This section describes how to monitor the health of services in AquaLogic Service Bus and collect the run-time information for system operations and business auditing purposes. It also describes how monitor System Level Agreements (SLA) violations and pipeline alerts.
Using Smart Search: This section describes how to use Smart Search functionality as operations management tool in AquaLogic Service Bus.
Reporting: This section describes how to capture message data for tracking messages or regulatory auditing. This section also contains information about setting up your own reporting provider, using the JMS reporting provider included with AquaLogic Service Bus, using the Reporting module in AquaLogic Service Bus Console, and configuring a reporting provider for data on alerts.
Tracing: This section describes how to trace messages without shutting down the server. This feature is useful in both a development and production environment. This feature allows you to troubleshoot and diagnose a message flow in one or more proxy services.