Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Monitoring
the
SOA
platform—centralized
management
and monitoring
Monitoring in Oracle SOA Suite 11g enables closed loop governance by con-
necting design-time with runtime. Once services, their metadata, and associated
policies are deployed, they begin to be automatically monitored and managed by
the service infrastructure by regularly updating the console with a scorecard of
runtime metrics collected.
Oracle SOA Suite 11g runs on top of numerous infrastructure components that
include database management systems, J2EE compliant application servers and
centralized identity management solutions. All Oracle SOA Suite 11g compon-
ents have specific functions for administering and managing parts of an SOA in-
frastructure, each from a different perspective or for a different audience. In order
to address the monitoring and management challenges described earlier, several
areas need to be considered:
•
Monitoring solutions need to be provided at an enterprise level that encom-
pass all related applications. This can begin with monitoring composite end-
points as well as the overall operational health of the infrastructure.
•
Real-time monitoring and proactive alerting based on runtime statistics of con-
figured KPIs, availability, performance metrics, and service level agreements
should be implemented.
•
Reporting of important information in the message (that is, payload), captured
as a part of reporting functionality, can aid system administrators in better ana-
lysis and troubleshooting.
