Chapter 14. Red Hat JBoss Dashboard Builder

Red Hat JBoss Dashboard Builder is a web-based dashboard application that provides Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) support, that is, visualization tools for monitored metrics (Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs) in real time. It comes integrated in the Business Central environment under the Dashboards menu.
It comes with a dashboard that requests information from the Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite Execution Engine and provides real-time information on its runtime data; however, you can create also custom dashboards over other data resources, which leaves the application relatively standalone.

What is Business Activity Monitoring?

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) software helps to monitor business activities that take place on a computer system in real time. The software monitors particular metrics, such as, the status of running processes, the number of invoices to be processed, processing times, etc. It provides tools for visualization of the collected data in graphs, tables, etc.

14.1. Accessing Dashboard Builder

Dashboard Builder is accessible in both business-central and as a standalone applications.
Within business-central, the Dashboard Builder is accessed directly from the Dashboards menu, and it integrates the jBPM Dashboard workspace that is accessible using Dashboards > Process & Task Dashboards menus.
  • Process & Task Dashboards displays a pre-defined dashboard based on runtime data from the Execution Server. In the menu on the left, select the entity you are interested. The widgets on the right will display the data for the entity.
As a standalone application, Dashboard Builder can be accessed in one of the following ways:
  • Using the URL https://HOSTNAME/dashbuilder (with the appropriate Hostname).
  • Using business-central with Dashboards > Business Dashboard menus.
    • Business Dashboards displays the environment in which you can create your own dashboards. Procedures on how to create a custom dashboard are provided below.