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 also create custom dashboards over other data sources, 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 and other. It provides tools for visualization of the collected data (for example in graphs or tables).
14.1. Basic Concepts
Dashboard Builder can establish connections to external data sources such as databases. These connections are then used for creating data providers that obtain data from the data sources. Dashboard Builder is connected to the local JBoss BPM Suite engine by default and acquires the data for its JBoss BPM Suite Dashboard indicators (widgets with visualizations of the data available on the pages of the JBoss BPM Suite Dashboard workspace).
The data providers keep all the data. If operating over a database, the data provider uses an SQL query to obtain the data. Operating over a CSV file enables the data provider automatically obtain all the data from the file.
Data from the data providers can then be visualized as graphs or tables in indicators: special panels, that can be arranged on Dashboard Builder managed pages. Pages are contained within a workspace and can define permission access rights. The number of pages within a workspace is arbitrary. A set of pages that presents related information on similar KPIs is referred to as a dashboard.
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