BusinessObjects Monitoring and Housekeeping activities

[former_member182521]

Hi Techies,

I got a chance to summarize the monitoring and housekeeping activities performed by businessobjects Administrators and am sharing the same here.Below activities needs to be performed at regular intervals as specified below to keep the BusinessObjects platform optimum, error free and stable.

Daily:

      · Monitoring BO servers running with optimal performance

· Monitoring all the related CMS, Audit and Reporting Database services

· Verifying Web applications (CMC, Infoview, Custom Applications) availability

· Monitoring day to day scheduled report jobs  from  Instance Manager

· Supporting issues for Business users

· Monitoring the size of the below Business objects Installation Folders

o   Logging

o   Data

o   FileStore

· Managing BusinessObjects backup preferably Cold backup during off business hours.

Backup Type	Backup Contents	Applicability
Full Content backup	Central Management Server (CMS) System Tables	Used for Full Content recovery
	Auditing Tables
	File Repository Server (FRS)
	Local audit log files
	Custom SDK applications/code
	Database Connections (ODBC DSNs)
	Any Application/Server specific configuration document
BIAR Backup	.BIAR Backup	Used for selective content recovery

Weekly:

1. Scan / Repair and Compact all repository errors

2. Delete the contents under the Local host folder in order to clear Tomcat Cache

3. Delete contents under the Data Folder in order to clear Web Intelligence Cache

4. Delete contents under the Logging Folder to clear log files generated

5. Delete empty folders within File Store Using RDT (Repository Diagnostic Tool)

Fortnightly

1. Testing the availability of all Universe connections to respective Databases

2. Regular BO repository Maintenance like Cleaning Orphaned Connection/Universe/Documents

3. Running Integrity Checks on Universes to ensure parsing (Syntax/Semantic Checking)

4. Discuss performance issues with DBA identified from auditing reports

Monthly:

1. Monitoring BO Licenses and managing license from named to Concurrent and Vice versa (If applicable).

2. Restart Web Application Server

3. Restart Server Intelligent Agent (SIA)

Feel free to add some more valid points if any, so that everyone will get benefit out of it.

Thanks for Reading!