Information publishing

There is lot of useful data stored in the enterprise repository; the information-publishing system provides a means to publish this data in various useful formats. Report is a construct that is used for publishing data from the Enterprise Management repository.

Enterprise Manager provides a lot of out-of-the-box reports, that the user can customize or use as-is. For example, a report on all policy violations, or a report on all metric alerts, or a report on all configuration changes. Besides these reports, the user can create new reports through the Enterprise Manager console.

We will now learn about the major building blocks for Information Publishing System.

Report definition

Report definition contains details like what data should be shown, how to get that data, layout of the report, parameters for the report, and at what frequency the report should be generated. For example, a particular report provides details about the performance of a BPEL process, the data...