The BPEL PM product ships with a console that is useful for administration activities such as turning a process on or off, deleting instances, checking the flow of an instance, and so on. However, it cannot provide management capabilities such as monitoring the availability and health of the servers, processes, configuration management, and bulk deployment.
Grid Control introduced BPEL management functionality with the 10.2.0.3 (or 10gR3) version, released in January 2007. The first release provided most of the functionality for monitoring the BPEL infrastructure including the BPEL PM server. Additionally, it had process-level monitoring, error-instance management, and service-level management.
The 10.2.0.4 (10gR4) version, released on Linux platforms in November 2007, brought additional new features for managing BPEL PM. Configuration management, deployment automation, and adapter monitoring were the main features of the release. The 10.2.0.5 (10gR5) version...