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has logged onto the publishing server, the client displays the portals served by

the server. The information displayed by the portals depends on what elements

or buttons the reviewer has clicked in any of the portals.

When viewing published business process models, you can select information

either through the navigation portlet or the view portlet, once a process or

element has been selected. Once a business process model or model element is

selected, you can view its associated attribute information as well as any

comments or responses or add new comments and responses via the comments

portlet. In addition you can associate additional read only documents or URLs to

model elements in the view portlets to help provide additional contextual

information about the element.

4.4.2 WebSphere Business Monitor

The WebSphere Business Monitor Version 6.0 is a Web-based client/server

application that measures business performance, monitors processes and

workflow, and reports on business operations. It monitors business processes at

runtime by monitoring event-emitting runtime engines. The information captured

can help you identify problems, correct faults, and change processes to achieve

a more efficient business.

WebSphere Business Monitor calculates key performance indicators (KPIs) and

metrics using collected events, based on a given model. The calculated KPIs and

metrics values are represented on a number of views based on business needs.

Users are notified of incidents requiring their attention and corrective actions can

be performed to avoid failures. It supports different notification methods (such as

alert, e-mail, cell phone, pager, and service invocation) against situations and

actions associated with defined conditions.

WebSphere Business Monitor includes one copy of WebSphere Business

Modeler Advanced providing modeling and simulation capabilities to model the

critical aspects of businesses. WebSphere Business Monitor is used in

conjunction with WebSphere Business Modeler to create business measures

model that specifically identifies activities to be monitored, including events,

business metrics, and KPIs.

Business measures models are used for monitoring procedures. These models

are created in the Business Measures editor where you can specify the

measuring points and event filters, define the measurements, their correlations,

and sources of the business data. When the business measures model is

complete, you can export it to WebSphere Business Monitor. It then recognizes

the model to be monitored and the measurements to be captured from the

incoming events.