The TIBCO EBX® Insight Add-on can monitor your repository's assets, such as, data, workflows, and business rules. Much like a cockpit contains instruments and gauges that provide feedback from mechanical systems to pilots, the add-on uses components called indicators to monitor your assets. Indicators have specific functions to provide you with a variety of data, and several presentation styles to aid in analysis. For example, indicators can help you see which tables have the most complete records, or learn where bottlenecks might be occurring in data workflows.
In addition to the add-on's predefined indicators, you can customize your own. Indicators can be set to execute automatically, or on demand. Additionally, you can customize the look and feel of results displayed by indicators using the dashboard.
The add-on is configured by administrators. This involves determining and defining which indicators are applied to which data assets. You can then specify whether indicators are part of a dashboard, or can only be accessed via the add-on's Execute and query service. A dashboard presents a contextual collection of indicators and groups them in sections.
To provide some clarity on the user role terms set forth in this guide:
Administrators are any users who can access the Administration area and update configuration options. Depending on your organization, admins may also be business users.
Business users can view indicators, execute indicators, and generate result reports.
The purpose for the Quick Start Guide is to provide a high-level overview of the process required to get the add-on up and running. The configuration process must be performed by a user with administrative privileges. Additionally, this guide will provide a high-level overview of actions and options business users can access along with an overview of the UI. The following table describes the sections contained in this guide:
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This section jumps right in to add-on usage and shows administrators how they can create, and add indicators to, dashboards. For brevity's sake, the example uses default options and doesn't delve into customizing look and feel. For additional information on these topics, please see the User Guide. | |
This section describes how to access and interact with the dashboard, describes dashboard tiles, and shows how to run the Execute and query service. |