1. Automating Ensemble Monitoring and
Reporting
Randy Pallotta
Meredith Staszak

2. Agenda
Monitoring Overview
Generating and Handling Alerts
Reporting
System Monitoring
Workflow

3. Why do I Need to Monitor?
• Real time status of Integration Environment
• Catch problems before they occur
• Peace of mind

4. What do I Need to Monitor
• Integration Engine Status
• Overall System Status

5. Types of Monitoring
• Passive
• Active

6. Passive Monitoring
• Ensemble Monitor
• Queues
• Jobs
• Event Log

7. Active Monitoring
• AlertOnError
• AlertGracePeriod
• AlertOnBadMessage (Router)

8. Active Monitoring
• QueueCountAlert
• QueueWaitAlert
• Inactivity Timeout

9. Exercise 1 – Generating Alerts
• In this exercise, we are going to generate alerts based on
the out-of-the-box settings.

10. Handling Alerts
• Ens.AlertRequest
– SourceConfigName
– AlertText
– AlertDestination
• Ens.Alert

11. Exercise 2 – Handling Alerts
• In this exercise we are going to route our alerts to different
people based on its source

12. Sending Email
• EnsLib.EMail.OutboundAdapter
• EnsLib.EMail.AlertOperation
– Uses the %Net.MailMessage class
• SSL/TLS support added in 2010.2

13. Sending Email
• Demo

14. Ens.MessageHeader
• Ensemble Master Message Index
• Projected as SQL table
• Useful message meta-data such as source and target, time
created, time processed, session, status

15. Ens.MessageHeader

16. Ens.MessageHeader

17. Zen Reports

18. Exercise 3
• In Monitor Namespace, view output of
GlobalSummit11.Sample.SampleMsgVolumeReport

19. System Free Space Monitor
• Task Manager
• Use case:
– Get email when DB free space falls below threshold

20. Exercise 4
• Examine
GlobalSummit11.Sample.SampleOSFreeSpaceMonitor
• Schedule task using the Ensemble Task Manager, view
output
• Strategies: “Silent” monitor runs every five minutes, “Loud”
Monitor runs daily at 9 AM. One monitor for DB, one
monitor for Journals.

21. Ensemble WorkFlow engine
• Ensemble provides a very powerful workflow engine
• Among other uses, can be used to incorporate Human
Intervention to deal with variances in otherwise real-time
automated HL7 interfaces
• Automatically provides User Interface for handling these
variances with little/no Web Development required (!)
• Missing MRN? Missing DOB?

22. Ensemble WorkFlow engine
• Workflows are built using the graphical “Business Process
Editor”

23. Exercise 5
• Examine the “MissingMRN” Workflow Business Process
• Run sample messages (one with MRN, one without MRN)
through the sample production
• Examine Workflow task in the DeepSee User Portal and
resolve MRN issue
• Use Message Trace tool to follow flow of messages through
the production

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26. Automating Ensemble Monitoring and
Reporting
Randy Pallotta
Meredith Staszak