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Introduction Cordys servers are a very complicated environment including lot of different JVM's (java virtual machines) and lot of connections to databases and other external systems, and in a Cordys cluster, different Cordys instances. Therefore Cordys servers can run in trouble for many reasons, for example:         Maximum he ap memory exceeded     Broken connections     Load too high     Lack of memory     Slow database It is the task of Cordys administrators to maintain and monitor Cordys servers in production environments in order to meet the SLA requirements of customers. For every Cordys Service Container the administrator must do the following: Check if heap memory usage is not exceeding maximum memory Check if it is available and restart it if necessary Check the performance of its webservices Check the performance of the databases used by the service container Another task of the ...

Monitoring Within an enterprise and on your processes you want monitoring. Monitoring is used to for example: View the number of ongoing processes and its status If certain KPI's are met Triggering other processes when a certain event takes place Cordys supports this in the form of BAM and uses certain constructs for this. In this Blog i will describe a small example on how to set up BAM and how to create Dashboards. It gives an idea on how this can be done in Cordys. I use the following picture in which the created Cordys artifacts are displayed. Step 1 - Create a webservice This step is not described here, but a webservice can be generated from a BPM, database or an external service can be used for example. Next i will use this webservice to create a Business Measure artifact. Step 2 - Create a Business Measure A Business Measure helps in measuring a particular aspect of a business process or any external data. The Business Measure provides a view on the...