Monitoring the BPEL infrastructure effectively is essential to the success of SOA projects. Enterprise Manager provides a way to monitor BPEL infrastructure components effectively with existing infrastructure components. We looked at the basic challenges, solution, and step-by-step exercises to address different areas. In particular, we created a BPEL infrastructure service and viewed the service, its underlying system and components, as well as alerts, metrics, and configuration changes. Finally, we viewed the systems components in a system dashboard.
Understanding the key components and creating a system to represent them is the first key step to enabling system management. This allows IT departments to monitor, manage changes, and implement best practice policies to comply with SOX and COBIT standards.
The next few chapters will walkthrough hands-on exercises to set up and perform additional service-level management tasks for the BPEL processes and BPEL infrastructure.