Managing Ensemble Productions - InterSystems Documentation

What to Manage
• Business processes (includes routing processes)
• Business operations (includes workflow operations)
You can use the diagram on the [Ensemble] > [Productions] > [Configuration] page to create, view, edit, and save configuration
items. You can configure items that reference the same host class; each such item has a different name. All configuration
items with the same host class have the same operational settings, but each item of that class can have different values for
those settings, so each item is unique.
After you define the configuration settings for a production using the Ensemble Management Portal and save your settings,
the portal outputs the settings to the production class in the form of an embedded XML excerpt. You can view this XML
directly; look for the production class in Ensemble Studio, on the Productions tab. The intention is for you to use the
Ensemble Management Portal to generate the XML initially, and there is no need to edit the production class directly.
However, the XML is there, if you ever want to view it, or export it from Studio.
You can further define configuration items as described in the following sections:
• Scheduling Configuration Items
• Assigning Configuration Items to Categories
3.3.1 Business Services
A business service accepts requests from sources outside the Ensemble production. If designed to do so, it also returns a
response to the requestor. A request that enters a business service from outside Ensemble is known as a primary request.
This type of request instigates a tracking mechanism called a session, which remains open until all of the activities prompted
by the primary request are completed. The session has an identifier that is used to mark all of the subsequent, internal
messages that Ensemble generates to fulfill the primary request.
Service Task
Add a business service to a production.
Remove a business service from a production.
View or configure operational settings for a business service.
Sequence of Portal Commands
Productions, Configure, Production, Add
Service
Productions, Configure, Production
Productions, Configure, Service
A business metric is a special type of business service used to monitor business activity and display the resulting statistics
on dashboards. Business metrics have their own host class, Ens.BusinessMetric, which inherits from the business service
host class. To use a business metric in a production, you must add and configure it as for any other business service, using
the tasks described in the preceding table. However, there are additional details for business metrics only. See the “Business
Metrics” chapter in Using Dashboards with Ensemble.
3.3.2 Business Processes
A business process accepts requests from business services and from other business processes. If designed to do so, it also
returns a response to the requestor. A business process communicates only with other Ensemble configuration items.
Business processes contain programmatic logic that describes what must happen inside Ensemble to fulfill a specific portion
of a request that (at some point) originated from outside Ensemble. The logic within a business process is both applicationindependent
and format-independent, and is described entirely in Ensemble terms.
Process Task
View the BPL diagram of a business process class.
Sequence of Portal Commands
Business Processes, Definition
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