AutoPilot/WBI

WebSphere Business Integrator Monitoring

AutoPilot/WBI incorporates some of the most advanced management and monitoring technologies such as its next generation metrics-collaboration scheme, on-demand event generation, user-definable events and action triggers, automatic data correlation, and compound alerting.

AutoPilot/WBI lets you see exactly what is going on end-to-end in real time -- from your newest web-based applications to your mainframe-based legacy systems.

AutoPilot/WBI provides you with standardized operational commands and control of your entire distributed WebSphere Business Integration network from one single, Web-based console for all WBI services and components, including WebSphere MQ.

Moreover, AutoPilot/WBI is the only suite of tools that not only lets your IT staff see what’s happening at the most granular levels, but also enables business users to detect, interpret, and make sense of the myriad interactions and inter-dependencies of the complex events that keep your business processes flowing.

AutoPilot/WBI gives you the power to make better, more timely decisions and take corrective actions before your business is impacted.

• High availability:: Dramatically improves your service levels, customer experience and retention by maximizing the efficiency, availability and reliability of your WebSphere Business Integration applications
• Complete, secure control:: Gives you total end-to-end control across all platforms throughout your entire WebSphere Business Integration application environment
• Empowerment across the enterprise:: Gives all groups affected by WebSphere MQ failures, including data center staff, support, application developers and business unit personnel the ability to take proactive corrective actions based on actionable alerts customized with the precise data they need about the impact of specific IT failures
• Increased IT productivity:: Frees technical resources to focus on reducing application backlog, tightening security and addressing other pressing IT issues
• Significantly reduced cost:: Automates labor-intensive monitoring and management tasks and automatically corrects common failures and problems, allowing you to accomplish more with existing resources
• Seamless implementation:: Plugs into popular ESM systems like HP-OV, Tivoli, Unicenter, and BMC Patrol to remove the need for expensive, time-consuming customization
• Speed:: Accelerates the deployment of middleware technologies and WebSphere Business Integration applications
• Minimal downtime:: Virtually eliminates the process bottlenecks, performance degradation and downtime that can cost companies millions

Technical Features

AutoPilot/WebSphere monitors and manages your WebSphere Business Integration (WBI) environment. It provides a graphical view of the WebSphere domain and its components and standardized operational commands and control over the entire distributed WBI network from one single, web-based dashboard for all WBI services and components, including WebSphere MQ. AP/WBI enables monitoring of message throughput, ensuring that messages are formatted, routed and moved between applications.

AutoPilot/WBI contains three integration brokers:

1. Message Broker - an event server that handles incoming external events and sends them to the MQ Workflow Activity that is waiting for the event.
2. MQ Workflow Management - controls your business processes. Provides a graphical representation of these processes.
3. WebSphere InterChange Server (WICS) - solves your application problems by providing business exchanges across the internet and routing information among different applications in the enterprise environment.

Monitoring & Management Features

AutoPilot/WBI provides the following monitoring and management features:

• Monitoring of every transaction that flows via WebSphere MQ network including start/stop of broker, groups, message flows, configuration manager and name server.
• Built-in automation, email and pager alerts
• Immediate response to alerts and event conditions that occur anywhere in the distributed application network that relies on WebSphere MQ
• Automated deployment and fault recovery
• Ability to set policies for consistent management across the WebSphere MQ network
• User-defined rules and conditions
• Ability to track and gather statistics on performance and availability of WBI servers
• Monitoring and flow control of IBM WBI Adapters
• Comprehensive monitoring and management facilities for WICS collaborations and flows, workflow processes and flows, and Message Broker conditions and events.
• Automated control of workflow traffic volumes
• Monitoring of process flows to measure peaks, lows, averages, and immediately pinpoint faults, performance bottlenecks and errors.
• Ability for business processes to capture business-related metrics.
• Ability to filter events and forward to other systems management platforms, including SNMP platforms.

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