TIBCO BusinessEvents 5.x Addon - Views - User\'s Guide

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Confidential Information | iii Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v Changes from the Previous Release of this Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi Related Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii TIBCO BusinessEvents and Add-On Product Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Accessing TIBCO BusinessEvents Functions Reference Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Other TIBCO Product Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Typographical Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii Connecting with TIBCO Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv How to Join TIBCOmmunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv How to Access TIBCO Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv How to Contact TIBCO Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Chapter 1 Introduction to TIBCO BusinessEvents Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Overview of TIBCO BusinessEvents Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 TIBCO BusinessEvents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 TIBCO BusinessEvents Views Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Dashboard User Interface and Feature Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Chapter 2 Using Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Accessing and Logging in to Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Command Bar and Page Selector Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Adding Charts from the Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Saving a Page Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Changing User Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 URL Links in the Command Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Selecting Different Dashboard Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Logging Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Dashboard Page Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Chart and Datapoint Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Chart Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Data Point Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Responding to Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Filtering Chart Data with Quick Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Quick Edit Filter Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 TIBCO BusinessEvents Views User’s Guide iv | Contents Chapter 3 Querying and Analyzing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Search Page Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Optional Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Displaying Results in the Drilldown Results Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Drilling Down on Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Querying Metric and Concept Data with Query Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Defining Conditions for Fields of Different Data Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Viewing, Drilling Down on, and Exporting Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Viewing Metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Viewing Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Drilling Down on Related Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Exploring Results with the Group By Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 How to Drill Down, Group, and Sort. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Exporting Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 TIBCO BusinessEvents Views User’s Guide | v Preface TIBCO BusinessEvents® Views software is an add-on to TIBCO BusinessEvents®. It is a web browser based client-server application. TIBCO BusinessEvents Views Dashboards provide real-time visual representations of business operations and data flowing through TIBCO BusinessEvents, so business users can make decisions based on current and relevant information. TIBCO BusinessEvents Views User’s Guide explains how to use Dashboard to understand the state of your business operations, analyze them, and export data for use in other applications. TIBCO BusinessEvents The Power to Predict® Topics • Changes from the Previous Release of this Guide, page vi • Related Documentation, page vii • Typographical Conventions, page xii • Connecting with TIBCO Resources, page xv TIBCO BusinessEvents Views User’s Guide vi | Changes from the Previous Release of this Guide Changes from the Previous Release of this Guide This section itemizes the major changes from the previous release of this guide. • This guide has been updated to reflect changes in the Dashboard user interface. TIBCO BusinessEvents Views User’s Guide Preface | vii Related Documentation This section lists documentation resources you may find useful. TIBCO BusinessEvents and Add-On Product Documentation The following diagram shows the main documents in the TIBCO BusinessEvents documentation set, and the documentation sets for the optional add-on products. Each set also contains an installation guide, release notes, and a readme file. TIBCO BusinessEvents Documentation TIBCO BusinessEvents Studio, the design-time UI, is supported on Windows and Linux. The documentation set for TIBCO BusinessEvents is as follows. TIBCO BusinessEvents®Standard Edition Getting Started AdministrationArchitect’s Guide Developer’s Guide Java API Reference Functions Reference Legend PDF HTML Eclipse help TIBCO BusinessEvents® Data Modeling Add-On Documentation TIBCO BusinessEvents® Event Stream Processing Add-On Documentation TIBCO BusinessEvents® Decision Manager Add-On Documentation TIBCO BusinessEvents® Views Add-On Documentation TIBCO BusinessEvents® Process Orchestration Add-On Documentation TIBCO BusinessEvents Views User’s Guide viii | Related Documentation • TIBCO BusinessEvents Installation: Read this manual for instructions on site preparation, installation, upgrading from an earlier release, and project migration. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Getting Started: After the product is installed, use this manual to learn the basics of TIBCO BusinessEvents: project design, cache OM, and backing store. This guide explains the main ideas so you gain understanding as well as practical knowledge. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Architect’s Guide: If you are architecting an application using TIBCO BusinessEvents, read this guide for overview and detailed technical information to guide your work. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Developer’s Guide: Use this guide when you implement a project design in TIBCO BusinessEvents Studio. It covers topics such as project-level tasks, resource-level tasks, debugging, and integration with TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks. It also explains how to configure the CDD file for different object management options, and set up a backing store. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Administration: This book explains how to configure, deploy, monitor, and manage a TIBCO BusinessEvents application and the data it generates using TIBCO BusinessEvents Monitoring and Management component, TIBCO Administrator, or at the command line. It includes authentication and authorization topics. • Online References: — TIBCO BusinessEvents Java API Reference: This online reference is available from the HTML documentation interface. It provides the Javadoc-based documentation for the TIBCO BusinessEvents API. — TIBCO BusinessEvents Functions Reference: This reference is available from the HTML documentation interface. It provides a listing of all functions provided with TIBCO BusinessEvents, showing the same details as the tooltips available in TIBCO BusinessEvents Studio. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Release Notes: Read the release notes for a list of new and changed features. This document also contains lists of known issues and closed issues for this release. TIBCO BusinessEvents Event Stream Processing This TIBCO BusinessEvents add-on is available separately, and includes the TIBCO BusinessEvents Query Language features and the Pattern Matcher Service. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Event Stream Processing Installation: Read this brief manual for installation instructions. A compatible version of TIBCO BusinessEvents must be installed before you install any add-on. TIBCO BusinessEvents Views User’s Guide Preface | ix • TIBCO BusinessEvents Event Stream Processing Query Developer’s Guide: This manual explains how to use the object query language to query various aspects of the running system For details on configuring and deploying query agents, see TIBCO BusinessEvents Developer’s Guide. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Event Stream Processing Pattern Matcher Developer’s Guide: This manual explains how to use the pattern matcher language and engine to correlate event patterns in a running system. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Event Stream Processing Release Notes: Read the release notes for a list of new and changed features. This document also contains lists of known issues and closed issues for this release. TIBCO BusinessEvents Decision Manager This TIBCO BusinessEvents add-on is available separately. It incorporates the Decision Manager decision modeling business user interface (supported on Windows and Linux), and the Rules Management Server (supported on all platforms supported by TIBCO BusinessEvents). • TIBCO BusinessEvents Decision Manager Installation: Read this brief manual for installation instructions. A compatible version of TIBCO BusinessEvents must be installed before you install any add-on. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Decision Manager User’s Guide: This manual explains how business users can use decision tables and other decision artifacts to create business rules. It also covers configuration and administration of Rules Management Server, which is used for authentication, authorization, and approval processes. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Decision Manager Release Notes: Read the release notes for a list of new and changed features. This document also contains lists of known issues and closed issues for this release. TIBCO BusinessEvents Data Modeling This TIBCO BusinessEvents add-on is available separately. It contains state models and database concept features. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Data Modeling Installation: Read this brief manual for installation instructions. A compatible version of TIBCO BusinessEvents must be installed before you install any add-on. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Data Modeling Developer’s Guide: This manual explains data modeling add-on features for TIBCO BusinessEvents. The database concepts feature enables you to model TIBCO BusinessEvents concepts on Database tables. The state modeler feature enables you to create state machines. TIBCO BusinessEvents Views User’s Guide x | Related Documentation • TIBCO BusinessEvents Data Modeling Release Notes: Read the release notes for a list of new and changed features. This document also contains lists of known issues and closed issues for this release. TIBCO BusinessEvents Process Orchestration This TIBCO BusinessEvents add-on is available separately. It provides CEP functionality within the context of a BPM process, enabling you segregate different CEP rule sets within the flow of a BPM process. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Process Orchestration Installation: Read this manual for instructions on site preparation and installation. A compatible version of TIBCO BusinessEvents must be installed before you install any add-on. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Process Orchestration Developer’s Guide: This guide explains how configure and deploy business processes whose actions are carried out using TIBCO BusinessEvents project resources. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Process Orchestration Release Notes: Read the release notes for a list of new and changed features. This document also contains lists of known issues and closed issues for this release. TIBCO BusinessEvents Views This TIBCO BusinessEvents add-on is available separately. It includes graphical dashboard components for run-time event monitoring. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Views Installation: Read this manual for instructions on site preparation and installation. A compatible version of TIBCO BusinessEvents must be installed before you install any add-on. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Views Getting Started: After the product is installed, use this manual to learn how to use TIBCO BusinessEvents Views to create and run a dashboard using a step-by-step tutorial. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Views Developer’s Guide: This guide explains how to use TIBCO BusinessEvents Views to create meaningful metrics that are presented to business users in real-time for proactive decision making. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Views User’s Guide: This book explains how to monitor metrics in TIBCO BusinessEvents TIBCO BusinessEvents Views and how to represent the business processes graphically. • TIBCO BusinessEvents Views Release Notes: Read the release notes for a list of new and changed features. This document also contains lists of known issues and closed issues for this release. TIBCO BusinessEvents Views User’s Guide Preface | xi Accessing TIBCO BusinessEvents Functions Reference Documentation Reference documentat