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Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook

By : Pete Wang
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Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook

By: Pete Wang

Overview of this book

An integral component of Oracle SOA and BPM Suite, Oracle BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) ultimately empowers business executives to react quickly to changing business situations. BAM enables business service and process monitoring through real-time data streaming and operational reports, and this book helps you to take advantage of this vital tool with best practice guidance for building a BAM project."Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" is an essential companion for advancing your BAM knowledge, with troubleshooting and performance tuning tips to guide you in building BAM applications. The book uses step-by-step instructions alongside a real world demo project to steer you through the pitfalls of report and application development. Packed with best practices, you'll learn about BAM migration, HA configuration and much more."Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" comprises a myriad of best practices for building real-time operational dashboards, reports and alerts. The book dives straight into the architecture of Oracle BAM 11g, before moving swiftly onto concepts like managing BAM server securities, populating Data Objects and performing load testing. Later on you'll also learn about BAM migration and building an ADF-based report, plus much more that you won't want to miss. For focusing in on best practices for this integral tool within Oracle SOA and BPM Suite, "Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" is the perfect guide for the job.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Understanding BAM logging and troubleshooting methodologies


In many cases, enabling BAM logging is the prerequisite for troubleshooting BAM issues. It is critical to set up the correct loggers to appropriate levels (for example, SEVERE, WARNING, INFO, CONFIG, FINE, FINER, and FINEST), so that you can collect the information to identify the actual problem, and determine the root cause.

Apart from logging, it is also important to have the proven methodologies in place, so that you can follow these methods/procedures to conduct your troubleshooting practice.

In this section, you will learn the following topics:

  • Understanding BAM logging concepts

  • Understanding the methodologies for troubleshooting

Understanding BAM logging concepts

BAM provides a set of loggers, which are associated with BAM Java packages/classes. Like Java, these loggers are named by following the dot convention, and are organized hierarchically.

Let's take a look at an example. oracle.bam.adc is the root logger for the Active...