About This Guide

The IBM® WebSphere® Business Integration (BI) Monitor Deployment guide will guide you through the steps for deploying BI Monitor. It also provides a technical background about the BI Monitor client-server architecture.

Introduction: Provides an introduction to the BI Monitor architecture and a description of the steps necessary to deploy the BI Monitor in order to use it for monitoring business processes.

Part 1 IBM WebSphere BI Monitor Architecture and Requirements

Chapter 1: BI Monitor Architecture is intended for technical IT personnel interested in learning about the client-server architecture of the BI Monitor. In this chapter, you learn about the BI Monitor's main components, their communications flows and their communications with other related applications.

Chapter 2: Necessary Requirements before Deployment lists the needed Hardware, Software and System requirements in order to deploy BI Monitor.

Part 2 IBM WebSphere BI Monitor Deployment on Windows, AIX® and Solaris Platforms

Chapter 3: Database Configuration describes the general steps for creating the Monitor database and configuring both the Monitor and EventQueue databases.

Chapter 4: BI Monitor Deployment on Windows, AIX, and Solaris Platforms describes the steps for deploying BI Monitor on IBM WebSphere Application Server automatically using the automated deployment wizard on Windows, AIX, and Solaris platforms.

Appendix A: Manual Deployment of BI Monitor on WebSphere 4.0.2 describes the manual steps of deploying BI Monitor on IBM WebSphere 4.0.2.

Appendix B: Manual Deployment of BI Monitor on WebSphere 5 describes the manual steps of deploying BI Monitor on IBM WebSphere 5 for both editions Application Server and Network Deployment.

Appendix C: Manual Deployment of BI Monitor on WebSphere 6 describes the manual steps of deploying BI Monitor on IBM WebSphere 6 for Application Server.

Appendix D: IBM DB2® 8.2 Database Server Configuration describes the detailed steps for creating the Monitor database and configuring both the Monitor and EventQueue databases on IBM DB2 Universal Database v8.2 as an example of the Database configuration’s detailed steps.

Appendix E: Controlling the Logging Service in IBM WebSphere BI Monitor v4.2.4 describes the detailed steps for controlling the logging service and setting the debugging level in order to determine the message types that should be recorded in the log files.

Part 3 IBM WebSphere BI Monitor Deployment on OS/390® and z/OS Platforms

Chapter 5: BI Monitor Deployment on OS/390 and z/OS Platforms describes the steps for creating the Monitor database and deploying BI Monitor on IBM WebSphere on OS/390 and z/OS platforms.

Part 4 Upgrading your Existing Version of BI Monitor to the Recent Version

Chapter 6: Upgrading your Existing Version of BI Monitor to the Recent Version describes the steps required for upgrading your existing version of BI Monitor to the recent version.

Glossary: Includes detailed definitions of the terms mentioned in this guide.