BAM integration with BPM 11gR1

Question

Hi,
I am trying to integrate BPM 11gR1 with BAM starting with a simple scenario as am a newbie with BAM.
The requirement is to generate a report for tracking a BPM process and whenever a new instance of a BPM process is created, the report should be updated and reflect the change.
I have carried out the following steps:
1. Updated the BAM Adapter on the SOA server with the BAM server details (IP,port, credentials)
2. Cleared the "DisableActions" parameter on the EM console for BPM.
3. Created two Business Indicators for the BPM process whose tracking is to be done. Both these indicators are "Dimensions" with Type String. Used an Assign activity inside the BPMN process to populate the values from the request payload.
4. Created a new Data Object in BAM Architect (Inside a new folder created within Samples folder) and added two columns to it corresponding to the business indicators.
5. In the "Project Properties" of the BPM project, enabled the BAM option and provided the path of Data Object as /Samples/NewFolder. And deployed the project.
6. Created a new BAM report using Active Studio of view type "Updating List" and selected the data object created.
Now, the expected outcome is that whenever the BPM process is invoked and it's instance is created, the data should be sent to BAM and the report should be updated with the values of these Business indicators.
But this is not happening and also am not able to track if the data is at all being sent from BPMN process to BAM.
Not sure if missing out something.
Any inputs/thoughts would be really helpful,thanks.

Answer 1

Hi
You seem to have done all the actions required :
BAM adapter configuration
Disable Actions cleared in EM
BPM process enable for BAM publishing.
Here are a few things you can investigate.
Check the configuration again. Ensure BAM adapter and BPM project preference is pointing to the same JNDI name.
BAM Adapter configuration sometimes require a restart. Please do so , if not already done.
Check if any data showed up in Component DO ? If yes, the problem might just be with the BI DO. Try to send 2-3 instances
Is this PS3 (11.1.1.4.0)? If yes, it will automatically create the BI dataobject for you in Samples folder upon deployment so check under Samples folder if a new DO has been created.
Remember that you need to deploy the process with BAM enabled and BAM server running to get BI data into BAM.
Lastly, check the logs - check bamserver.log , bam-diagnostics.log and Soa/bpm log to get more information.
Regards
Payal