Use process probes to monitor data throughout the life cycle of a business process. A process probe is a named collection of data elements that are packaged into a single message at runtime. For each process probe, you must define a name and a set of probe elements. Each element corresponds to a data source that can be either a literal, context reference, or another probe element. Probe elements are static and are specific to a business process.
A process probe must be associated with an activity and each activity can have only one associated probe. A process probe can be reused across multiple activities in the same business process, but cannot be reused across business processes.
Create and define process probes by doing the following steps:
Add a probe in the Business Process Editor
Associate the probe with an activity from the Ancillary Activity, Write to Probe, in the Properties View
Set the Write to Probe ancillary activity for reporting
When using BizTracker as your monitoring application:
A probe creates a new set type and the set type name is the probe name.
In BizTracker, the operation name is the probe name appended with operation (for example, Probe1operation).
The OPT_MSG_TYPE header property is set to the probe name for probe messages.
A probe element is a field that BizTracker is tracking.
Three fields are automatically added to a probe-generated message: activity name, process ID, and process name.