Administration and Management

WLI provides a simple, secure, portlets-based administration console for run-time management and analytics. The console is easy to use and enables users to navigate quickly across modules of the console.

The administration console allows centralized configuration, maintenance, and monitoring of integrated resources, including audit trails and the associated security and role information. It is extensible with JMX interfaces to third-party tools. The administration console is designed for application administrators, who need an integration-focused view of business processes and messaging activity in order to monitor deployed applications.

WLI separates run-time administration from offline analytics by maintaining two logical database stores.

The online administration database contains run-time data about the integration engine, process states, and message history. This repository is designed for performance – to scale and retrieve information as quickly as possible while maintaining data in an optimized format. According to configurable archiving policies, the online repository is periodically archived to an offline data store. Data archiving enables analysis of process data by third-party tools through SQL queries on the archived databases.
Task history is maintained in a separate offline store called the worklist reporting store. This store can be either the default reporting store provided with the worklist or a custom reporting store that you provide.

Table 9-1 Modules of the WLI Administration Console
Module	Purpose
Process Instance Monitoring	View summary statistics about system health. View summary and detailed status information for specific process instances. View interactive and printable process instance graph. Terminate or suspend instances, resume previously suspended instances, and unfreeze frozen instances. For more information, see Process Instance Monitoring in Using the WebLogic Integration Administration Console.
Process Configuration	View process type information and locate specific processes for configuration. View and update process type properties, such as the display name, tracking level, and reporting data policy. View and update the security policies for a process. Activate and deactivate a nonversioned process. Configure the activation time for a newly deployed process version, or rollback to a previous version. View an interactive or printable process type graph. View and update the selectors used to dynamically set control attributes for a process control or service broker control. For more information, see Process Configuration in Using the WebLogic Integration Administration Console.
Message Broker	View a list of channels, with the number of subscribers and processed messages for each. View channel properties and set channel security policies. View the subscribers to a channel and quickly access a list of the subscriber process instances. View channel summary statistics (number of active channels, subscribed channels, and dead letter count). Reset the message counter. For more information, see Message Broker in Using the WebLogic Integration Administration Console.
Trading Partner Management	Manage and monitor trading partner profiles. Manage services and service profiles that constitute the processes that are offered or called by trading partners. Set message tracking criteria, and view summary and message content for tracked messages. Import and export trading partner management data. View summary statistics about the level of trading partner activity. For more information, see Trading Partner Management in Using the WebLogic Integration Administration Console.
System Configuration	View and set the purge schedule. Start and stop the purge process. Enable and disable transmission of data to an offline data store. View and set the JNDI name for the data store used to store data offline. View and set the default tracking level and reporting data policy for processes. Create, view, and change password aliases. For more information, see System Configuration in Using the WebLogic Integration Administration Console.
Event Generators	Create and deploy new event generators. Add channel rules to existing event generators. Reset the read and error counters. Suspend and resume deployed event generators. For more information, see Event Generators in Using the WebLogic Integration Administration Console.
XML Cache	Add entries to the XML cache. Change and delete XML cache entries. View the code for XML cache entries. For more information, see XML Cache in Using the WebLogic Integration Administration Console.

Overview of WebLogic Integration

Administration and Management