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How to enable monitoring in Oracle Service Bus 11g?

I have been looking to enable monitoring in OSB 11g? I am not exactly sure how to achieve this?

Thanks

Solution

  • It depends on what you mean by "monitoring" as there are many different kinds and a lot depends on your functional requirements around monitoring too.
    Monitoring can be:
    * Proactive (When you actively look for patterns - preferably automatically but also possible manually - and detect issues before they occur or get alerted to those immediately after they occur)
    * Reactive (when you are trying to debug an issue after it has occurred)

    Monitoring can also be:
    * Technical - check for signs of timeouts, long running invocations etc. Technical monitoring can be at:

    • Application level (OSB specific in your case)
    • Platform level (Application server/JVM/operating system - after all, for OSB monitoring to work, you need to ensure/monitor that the OSB itself is running!)

    *Functional (often involves explicit logging from your code but can be co-related to technical patterns - e.g. number of invocations of a particular API/service might indicate number of orders).

    • Functional monitoring can also include SLA monitoring

    Finally, in the Oracle Service bus:
    * You can enable monitoring at the individual service level (via the Operations tab under each service or via scripting in WSLT)
    * The monitoring above can be combined with rules to alert on specifc scenarios (such as SLA breaches)
    * You can use specific log entries within your pipelines and then monitor those at runtime

    There is a lot more you can do to "monitor" services depending on what is relevant for your services. Although OSB monitoring can be performed via various consoles (/sbconsole or /em in 12c), a lot of good monitoring combines these features into well designed alerts so that you are always on top of potential problems. You can reach this stage by constantly observing your system's behaviour and then improving/tweaking your monitoring solution(s).
    This is a good document to read to start: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E29542_01/admin.1111/e15867/monitoring_ops.htm#OSBAG472

    HTH.