Manage Binding Components, Oracle B2B, and Oracle Business Activity Monitoring

13 Manage Binding Components, Oracle B2B, and Oracle Business Activity Monitoring

Binding components establish a connection between a SOA composite application and the external world.

This chapter includes the following sections:

Manage Binding Components

This section describes the set of typical tasks you need to configure binding components. Binding components enable your SOA composite application to communicate with the outside world. Services provide the outside world with an entry point to the SOA composite application. References enable messages to be sent from the SOA composite application to external services in the outside world.

This section contains the following topics:

Monitor Services and References Binding Component Instances and Faults

The following section provides a summary of the steps required to monitor binding component instances and faults and recently rejected messages. This section also provides links to documentation that describes key concepts and procedures.

The steps for this process are:

Understand binding components. More
Monitor binding component instances and faults. How?

Manage Service and Reference Binding Component Policies

The following section provides a summary of the steps required to manage policy attachments in binding components. This section also provides links to documentation that describes key concepts and procedures.

The steps for this process are:

Understand binding components. More
Understand policies. More
Understand the specific types of policies available and which ones to use in your environment. More
Manage binding component policies. How?

Configure Service and Reference Binding Component Properties

The following section provides a summary of the steps required to modify values of binding component properties. This section also provides links to documentation that describes key concepts and procedures.

The steps for this process are:

Understand binding components. More
Configure binding component properties. How?

View Adapter Reports

The following section provides a summary of the steps required to view Adapter reports. This section also provides links to documentation that describes key concepts and procedures.

The steps for this process are:

From the SOA Composite page, click on a Service or Reference page.
Click on the Adapters Tab on the Service or Reference page.
Click on Enable Reports. Fusion Middleware Control displays the Configuration, Monitoring and Snapshot Reports.

For more information see "Monitoring JCA Adapters" in the Administering Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business Process Management Suite.

Schedule Adapter Endpoint Activation and Deactivation

The following section provides a summary of the steps required to schedule Adapter endpoint activation and deactivation. This section also provides links to documentation that describes key concepts and procedures.

The steps for this process are:

From the SOA Infrastructure menu, select Define Schedules to navigate to the Scheduling Services page.
From the Scheduling Services menu that is available on that page, select Job Requests > Define Schedules. There, you can enter items such as the Schedule Name, Description, Frequency, and Start Date.
You can edit or delete these schedules from the Create Schedules page.
Use the Adapter Schedules dialog to choose among schedules you have already established through Job Requests -> Define Schedules.

For more information see "Monitoring JCA Adapters" in the Administering Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business Process Management Suite.

Manage Oracle B2B

Oracle B2B enables secure and reliable e-business transaction exchanges between an organization and its external trading partners. This chapter describes the set of typical tasks you need to monitor Oracle B2B.

This section includes the following topics:

Monitor B2B Infrastructure-SOA Binding

Monitor B2B Infrastructure-SOA Binding

The following section provides a summary of the steps required to monitor the B2B binding component. This section also provides links to documentation that describes key concepts and procedures.

The steps for this process are:

Understand document types. More
Understand trading partners. More
Understand endpoints. More

Use the B2B Server Properties link and the B2B Console link under Related Links.

Manage Oracle Business Activity Monitoring

Oracle BAM enables you to monitor business processes in real time.

This section describes the set of typical tasks you need to perform to configure Oracle BAM.

The sections are:

Understand the Oracle BAM Property Page.
Monitor the Oracle BAM Performance Summary Page.
Control the Start Up and Shut Down of the Oracle BAM server.
View Log Messages.
Configure Log Messages.
Understand Application Policies.
Understand Application Roles.
Understand System MBean Browser.
Use Target Information to view additional information about the Oracle BAM server, including the version, Oracle Home path, Middleware Home path, Domain Home path, and host name.