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Process System Guide
iPlanet™ Integration Server
Version 3.0
August 2001
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Copyright (c) 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, California 94303, U.S.A. All rights reserved. Sun Microsystems, Inc. has intellectual property rights relating to technology embodied in the product that is described in this document. In particular, and without limitation, these intellectual property rights may include one or more of the U.S. patents listed at http://www.sun.com/patents and one or more additional patents or pending patent applications in the U.S. and
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Contents List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 List of Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Product Name Change . . . . . . . . . . .
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iIS Process Management Tasks (continued) Managing iIS Process Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Managing Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Managing Process Execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 iIS Process Man
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The iIS Console Main Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Main Viewing Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Mouse Popup Menu . . . . . . . . . .
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Reconfiguring an Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 How to Reconfigure an Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 How to Dynamically Modify Database Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 How to Tune Process Execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter 6 Managing Process Execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Engine Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Disrupted Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Monitoring and Managing Two-Phase Commit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Managing Two-Phase Commit Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Managing iIS Process Engines with Conductor Script (continued) Monitoring Engines and Engine Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Monitoring the Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Monitoring Individual Engine Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Changing Engine States . . . . .
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Conductor Script Commands (continued) CreateFilter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Event Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Object Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Conductor Script Commands (continued) RemoveWriteLock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 RollbackActivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 RollbackTransaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 S
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Appendix B Engine Database Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Database Tables by Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Alphabetical Listing of Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 Database Schema Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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List of Figures Figure 1-1 An iIS Process Management System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Figure 1-2 Minimal Engine Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Figure 1-3 Engine Configuration with Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Figure 1-4 Engine Configuration with Both Failover and Load Balancing . . . . . .
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List of Procedures To copy the documentation to a client or server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 To view and search the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Before you invoke the setccomp script, you must do the following . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 To set up an iIS process system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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To use the Dump/Restore application to restore database tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 To transfer iIS library distributions to a production environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 To register one or more distributions using the iIS Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 To unregister a process definition, assignment rule dictionary, or user profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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To view all engine events for an existing process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 To view all engine events for the next process instance of a specific process definition . . . . . . . . . . 220 To specify a custom filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 To view performance indicators for an engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Preface The iIS Process System Guide describes how to manage a process system, one of the two subsystems that comprise iIS. The guide provides the system management principles and concepts upon which a process system is based, and describes how to perform process system management tasks. This preface contains the following sections: “Product Name Change” on page 19 “Audience for This Guide” on page 20 “Organization of This Guide” on page 20 “Text Conventions” on page 21 “Other Docum
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Audience for This Guide Audience for This Guide This book assumes familiarity with the basic concepts underlying an iIS process system. A discussion of these concepts and a description of iIS process system components, the functions they perform, and how they interact with an iIS Backbone can be found in the iIS Conceptual Overview. Additionally, information about creating and defining business process for use within an iIS process system can be found in the first two chapters of the iIS Pr
