Neuron ESB has built in support for many of the popular Microsoft Technologies such as WCF, WF, MSMQ, BizTalk Server and SQL Server. This allows you to easily reuse your existing Microsoft investments far more effectively while reducing your infrastructure requirements. Learn more about how Neuron ESB addresses critical business issues.
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Management & Administration
Neuron ESB provides businesses with comprehensive management capabilities that enable day to day operations of the ESB. Through the Neuron ESB Explorer, you can easily configure, monitor, control and deploy the ESB.
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Description |
| Connections |
- Import existing web services or WSDL into the Neuron ESB registry.
- Create new service endpoints on the ESB.
- Manage adapters to expose existing applications as service end points.
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| Security |
- Credentials can be configured to secure communication of messages
over Topics.
- Define Certificate for message encryption.
- Authorize the publication and subscription of messages and events on the ESB using Microsoft Windows Active Directory Users and Groups
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| Messaging |
- Business conversations (Topics) can be defined to control the behavior of messaging, network, reliability and quality of service (QOS) attributes between publishers and subscribers.
- Publishers and Subscribers can be defined and managed.
- Generate messaging configuration model diagram of current deployed topology.
- Model and simulate message flow through the ESB.
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| Integration |
- Create pipelines that define processing steps for messages received or sent to publishers and subscribers.
- Define processing steps to be added to existing or new pipelines. Many predefined processing steps are packaged with Neuron ESB, for example:
- Database query execution
- Notifications
- Business rules execution
- Windows workflow foundation execution
- Validation
- Create message templates used as criteria for evaluating business events.
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| Deployment |
- Neuron ESB Deployment Wizard
- Manage Enterprise Zones and Bridges to define logical or geographical separations of the ESB for federation
- Manage deployment from development, QA, Staging and Production environments
- View configured deployment diagrams
- Manage Neuron ESB databases and tables for failed message queue and message tracking.
- Manage Microsoft Message Queues
- Stop, Start, Restart ESB Servers within deployment groups
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| Monitoring |
- View failed messages that occur on the ESB
- Monitor real-time message activity
- Monitor and report on active client sessions to the ESB
- Manage queued messages, message history and business events fired
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| Data |
- Deploy and manage Schemas, XML documents, Transformations and WSDL within the ESB environment.
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Additionally, Neuron ESB supports the propagation of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) events as well as recording events to the Microsoft Windows Event Log. This allows businesses to use their existing Microsoft Operations Management Server, HP OpenView or Tivoli investments to extend Neuron ESB’s monitoring capabilities.
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