After you have configured BPM persistence, you can use Enterprise Manager to monitor your BP instances. The procedures in this section help ensure that BPs appear in Enterprise Manager as expected. From Enterprise Manager, you can:
Filter the list of displayed instances to identify exceptions.
Navigate to particular versions of a BP to monitor the progress of instances.
Use a web-based interface to securely access the monitoring environment over the internet.
Before you connect to Enterprise Manager, verify that the Adobe SVG Plug-in for Enterprise Manager is installed. Before you begin monitoring BPs, you must deploy and manage any necessary application servers in Enterprise Manager.
From the Enterprise Manager’s Business Process Instance Monitor tab, you can suspend, resume, and terminate BP instances. You can also refresh the BP instance lists, change monitoring options, filter BP instances, and view the BP instances and their associated BP instances in various ways.
The Business Process Instance Monitor page provides a set of toolbars for viewing and evaluating BP instances. Before you start monitoring BP instances, be sure to acquaint yourself with these tools.
The icons at the upper left of the Business Process Instance Monitor toolbar control the graphic display of BP instances as well as BP instance lists. describes each icon.
Table 1 Business Process Instance Monitor: Display Icons
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Description |
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Displays the image of a BP instance in the Details window. |
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Hides the image of a BP instance in the Details window. |
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Displays the attributes of the current BP instance in list format, and adds the tools described in . You can only view information about a BP that has been configured for persistence. |
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Hides the attributes of the current BP instances and removes the instance tools from the interface. |
When Show Business Process Model is selected, a toolbar appears in the upper right of the Business Process Instance Monitor just beneath the main toolbar. This toolbar allows you to control the display of the graphic model of the BP instance. lists and describes the icons on the Business Process Model toolbar.
Table 2 Business Process Instance Monitor: Business Process Model Toolbar
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Description |
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Alerts you to enable monitoring in the BPM Engine Configuration Properties in order to see BP activity status and details in the Business Process Instance Monitor. |
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Enables zooming and panning of the BP instance view. |
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Disables zooming and panning of the BP instance view. |
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Zooms out to a lower percentage view of the BP instance. |
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Zooms in to a higher percentage view of the BP instance. |
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Changes the percentage of the view to 100%. |
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Changes the percentage of the view so the entire BP instance fits in the Show Business Process Model panel. |
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Changes the percentage of the view so that the width of the BP instance fits in the Show Business Process Model panel. |
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Changes the percentage of the view so that the height of the BP instance fits in the Show Business Process Model panel. |
When Show list of Business Process Instances is selected, you can manipulate the view of BP instance data using the icons described in . These icons are located at the right of the Business Process Instance Monitor toolbar.
Table 3 Business Process Instance Monitor: Business Process Instance Toolbar