Using System Manager

This section describes how to start and use the System Manager perspective.

Starting System Manager

When you install an BM WebSphere integration broker, you have the option to install the WebSphere Studio Workbench with support for the plug-ins required to interact with the broker, or to install the plug-ins into an existing installation of WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition.

To start System Manager, do the following:

  1. Select Start > Programs > WebSphere Business Integration Adapters > Tools > System Manager.
  2. Select Windows > Open Perspective > Other from the menu bar.
  3. Select System Manager from the list of perspectives and then click OK.

    WebSphere Studio Workbench starts and appears. Figure 27 shows the System Manager perspective and System Manager interface describes the interface and its elements.

System Manager interface

The System Manager perspective has several views and editors in the default configuration it opens with. Figure 27 shows the System Manager perspective:

Figure 27. System Manager perspective

Table 23 describes the interface elements of the System Manager perspective, identified by the numbers in Figure 27:

Table 23. System Manager perspective interface elements

Interface element number Interface element name
1 Menu bar and toolbar
2 Perspective shortcut bar
3 WebSphere Business Integration System Manager view
4 Interchange Server Component Management view. This section is relevant only when running WebSphere Interchange Server as the integration broker. You can ignore it if you are using a different broker.
5 Editor view
6 Console view

The following sections describe the interface elements of System Manager in greater detail.

Menu bar and toolbar

You use the menu bar and toolbar to work with the Eclipse-based tooling framework and to work with integration broker components. Many of the menu bar items have toolbar equivalents, so the following sections only describe menu bars and their items.

File menu

This is an Eclipse-standard menu that is used to work with resources. You will use it primarily to create new integration component libraries and user projects.

For more information on creating integration component libraries and user projects, see Working with integration component libraries and Working with user projects.

Edit menu

This is an Eclipse-standard menu that has many standard items such as Cut, Copy, and Paste.

For more information on cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting the components you create, see Working with components in integration component libraries.

Navigate menu

This is an Eclipse-standard menu that allows you to navigate among the resources in the workbench. For more information on this menu, see the workbench documentation.

Search menu

This is an Eclipse-standard menu that allows you to search for and search within resources. For more information on this menu, see the workbench documentation.

Project menu

This is an Eclipse-standard menu that has menu items for manipulating Project resources in the workbench; this menu item is not used when working with the System Manager perspective. For more information on this menu, see the workbench documentation.

Component menu

This menu is provided with the System Manager perspective and is useful for working with integration components you create. The items in this menu are documented throughout this guide and others in sections that describe specific tasks.

Tools menu

This menu is provided with the System Manager perspective and is used to launch tools used to create integration components.

For more information, see Working with components in integration component libraries.

Server menu

This menu has the Register Servers item, which you can use to register an InterChange Server instance. This item is not relevant if your integration broker is not Interchange Server.

Run menu

This menu has an item to configure external tools to run external programs, batch files, and build scripts. For more information, see the workbench documentation.

Window menu

This menu has items for working with perspectives, views, editors, and preferences.

These items are covered in the workbench documentation and in various sections of this guide.

Help menu

This menu has items that launch the workbench documentation and that provide version information about the workbench and perspectives.

Perspective shortcut bar

Use the perspective shortcut bar to navigate conveniently between different perspectives. You might have the System Manager and Java perspectives open; you can click on their workspace icons in the perspective shortcut toolbar to switch between them.

You can also navigate to other perspectives by using the Window menu:

WebSphere Business Integration System Manager view

This view has the User Projects and Integration Component Libraries nodes, which are types of integration broker projects.

For more information on working with these types of projects, see Working with integration component libraries and Working with user projects.

InterChange Server Component Management view

This view is available for those using WebSphere InterChange Server as an integration broker. It is not relevant for other integration brokers.

Editor view

This is the view in which you work with different resources in the framework, such as files and integration component definitions. Different editors open to work with different types of resources. For instance, text files are opened in a text editor.

Console view

This view has two tabs: Console and Log Output. When you compile maps or collaboration templates in System Manager, the Console tab displays messages to indicate whether compilation for each component completed successfully and the Log Output tab displays any errors or warnings encountered.

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