Monitoring Cross-Site Processes Executed across Heterogeneous WS-BPEL Processors

Abstract

Monitoring on heterogeneous large-scale business process is crucial for system management. But heterogeneous large-scale business processes cannot be satisfactorily monitored because there is no interoperability among process monitoring functions provided by multiple vendors. We found that monitoring on messages and messaging activities of Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) processes was suitable for monitoring of heterogeneous large-scale business process. We present a common audit-data format that is designed for monitoring heterogeneous business processes. Additionally, we present the results of monitoring heterogeneous business processes by this common audit-data.