10.8 Generating Service Bus Reports Using BI Publisher

You can use Enterprise Manager to print Service Bus reports using BI Publisher Enterprise Reports. Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher is an enterprise reporting solution for authoring, managing, and delivering highly formatted documents. Oracle BI Publisher also allows you to build custom reporting applications that leverage existing infrastructure. Reports can be designed using familiar desktop products and viewed online or scheduled for delivery to a wide range of destinations.

For example, you can generate an Service Bus Services Report that describes the way Service Bus services have been performing over a period of time. The report provides charts to list the top 5 Service Bus Services and a table with critical metric details for all the services.

The following table describes the Service Bus-related reports you can choose.

Table 10-2 Service Bus Reports

Service Bus Report	Description
Service Bus Service Summary Report	The Service Bus Service Summary Report provides information about the Average Response Time, Open Instances Count, Fault Instances Count, and Web Service Security Violation Count for the selected service. The Service Bus Service Summary Report displays a chart with the top 5 Service Bus services based on Average Response Time or Throughput across the selected Service Bus services for the specified time period. The report can be sorted based on a performance metric (for example, Average Response Time) or a usage metric (for example, Instance Count). As part of the report parameters setting, you can use options that allow you to select the Service Bus Service by Projects or by selecting individual services.
Service Bus Service Operations Summary Report	The Service Bus Service Operations Summary Report provides internal operation level details for the selected service. The details in the report cover the Average Response Time, Open Instances Count, Fault Instances Count, and Web Service Security Violation Count. The report can be sorted based on a performance metric or a usage metric. As part of the report parameters setting, you can use options that allow you to select the Service Bus Service by Projects or by selecting individual services.

Service Bus Report

Description

Service Bus Service Summary Report

The Service Bus Service Summary Report provides information about the Average Response Time, Open Instances Count, Fault Instances Count, and Web Service Security Violation Count for the selected service. The Service Bus Service Summary Report displays a chart with the top 5 Service Bus services based on Average Response Time or Throughput across the selected Service Bus services for the specified time period. The report can be sorted based on a performance metric (for example, Average Response Time) or a usage metric (for example, Instance Count). As part of the report parameters setting, you can use options that allow you to select the Service Bus Service by Projects or by selecting individual services.

Service Bus Service Operations Summary Report

The Service Bus Service Operations Summary Report provides internal operation level details for the selected service. The details in the report cover the Average Response Time, Open Instances Count, Fault Instances Count, and Web Service Security Violation Count. The report can be sorted based on a performance metric or a usage metric. As part of the report parameters setting, you can use options that allow you to select the Service Bus Service by Projects or by selecting individual services.

To print Service Bus reports using BI Publisher Enterprise reports, follow these steps:

From the Enterprise menu, click Reports, and then click BI Publisher Enterprise Reports.

Enterprise Manager Cloud Control displays the login page for BI Publisher Enterprise Reports.
Enter your credentials to log into BI Publisher.

The BI Publisher Enterprise page displays, showing you Recent reports, Others, and Favorites. You can use this page to create a new report, submit a report job, and perform other tasks.
Click the Report you want to display.
On the Report page, use the parameter filters to tailor the report structure that displays, then click Refresh.

You can view the Service Bus Services Report using the filters based on the various search parameters available at the top of the page, such as Target Name, Date Range, and so on. Similarly, you can view the report based on the Sort By option as well, allowing you to sort the report by Service Name or Average Response Time, for example.

You can refresh the report anytime by clicking the Refresh icon on the upper right side of the Service Bus Service Report tab. You can hide or display the search parameters by clicking the Parameters icon. You can choose to view the report in various formats such as HTML, PDF, RTF, Excel, and PowerPoint by clicking the View Report icon. Likewise you can display more available actions by clicking the Actions icon. For more help about using BI Publisher, click the help icon.