SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Monitoring Configuration – Part(2)
Hi All,
This is the continuation of my previous blog SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Monitoring Configuration SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Monitoring Configuration – Part(1)
Schedule monitoring probes from the CMC
- Log on to the Central Management Console. http://Server:8080/BOE/CMC
- Go to Monitoring > Probes
3. Select the CMS Logon Logoff probe and click on Schedule
4. When the Schedule options appear, set the probe to run every 3 minutes from the current time to 24 hours later. We want the CMS Logon Logoff probe
to run every 3 minutes. Go to the Schedule section and set it to run every 3 minutes for the next 24 hours
5. Select the InfoView probe and set it to run every 5 minutes for the next 24 hours.
6. You should now see 2 probes set as scheduled from the Probes dashboard.
7. If the Infoview probe shows a failure, it is probably because the username/password it is using is not correct.
- Right-click on the probe and select Properties
- Edit the username/password, Click Save and Close. Right-click on the probe and select Run Now.
- Click the refresh icon, next to the Enable Auto-Refresh button.
- If you wish the probe screen to automatically update, select the ‘Enable Auto-Refresh’ button.
Creating a watch
The CMS probe is now scheduled and you want to base a watch on it so it generates an alert if the Logon Logoff action takes longer than 200 milliseconds.
- Go to Monitoring > Watchlist
2. Click on New and define a name, description for your new watch as showed in the screenshot. Set the number of states to Two (OK, Danger) and check the 2 options Show on Dashboard.
3. Click on Next
- Browse the available metrics and select Probes > BI40SIA.CMSLogonLogoff > execution time.
- On the right panel, set the Danger operator to ‘>=’ and value to 200 (or choose a value that appears just above the current average so that you get some alerts)
4. Click on Next. Leave the settings to default: alert notifications will be sent every time the threshold is reached and notifications
will be sent to the ‘Administrator’ or to any user.
5. Click on Save to save this new watch.
Alert notification
We will get the notification when the threshold is reached. To see the alerts when your CMS probe has been running for a few hours
you may have sent alerts to the Administrator. If required we can cascade the alerts to e-mail recepients as well.
- Log on to BI Launch Pad
- From the Home Page, notice the new Alerts from the Alerts module – if you have alerts you will see something similar to this.
3. Click on one of the alerts to view the details
Hope you find this interesting. Thanks for reading.
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Monitoring Blogs
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Monitoring Configuration – Part(1)
Thanks Mani for the nice blog. I was looking one for BI4 monitoring and your blog helped me to kick start the setup.
I have done the setup somehow email notification is not working . Is it working for you ? any other troubleshooting tips for email notfication ?
Thanks!
Rajavelu
Raj,
Many Thanks for reading my blog.
Below SAP Notes could also help you.
1728800 - User not receiving email alerts for watchlist
1684257 - How to set alerts for Watchlist in BI 4.0
1742550 - How to enable alert notifications for the watchlist created in Central Management Console for Non-Admin Groups.
Regards,
Mani
Thanks Mani.. these are excellent notes.. All setup done as per notes, still no luck...
I have also opened a message to SAP
Hi Mani
Very useful info...
But if we execute this in background once in every half an hour will it affects the system performance?
regards
Thanks Prem
Yes. you need to do the sizing to accomodate the monitoring capabilities as well.
The first step would be to create a dedicated APS for Monitoring service alone.
Regards
Mani
Thanks mani .
may i know the approximate memory needed for a stand alone BO server for about 25 users with most of them are complex queries.?
Hi Prem,
Would suggest you to check for the sizing estimator.
http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2013/02/04/bi4-sizing-webcast-summary
You need to assume the below.Concurrent Active Users = 10-20% of Total users (i.e.) so 5 will be the maximum.
Regards
Mani
Don't know if you will continue (part 3), but it could be good to talk about "what means metrics exactly" I don't found much information.
Ex: In Dashboardprocessingserver, what mean "Used disk space". For me it show 250 Gb...what !!!
Ex2 : In WebIntelligenceProcessingserver, what mean "CPU Usage _%_", for me, it show 0 or 1. What !!!!
It's like all Business Intelligence world, lot of information but what mean all this.
Part 3 is on its way Patrick.
By the way metric is an property of an individual BusinessObjects servers which you can monitor, probe, watch and analyse.
Superb article, sir! What defines a healthstate within the server metric? So I see values ranging from 1 to 4. What exactly is a healthstate comprised of? It sounds generic.
Health State
Highlights the current status of the service:
Yea, I understand the values but what is the Health State looking at that determines 0,1 or 2?
Thanks!
Hi Cartel,
I re-read your query and compared with the metrics available in CMC.
The health status of a watch is determined by its metrics. You would define them as x, y or z. Execution time and passed are the metrics define it for CMS logonlogoff. The healt would be either 0 or 1 for it.
Thats a really wonderfull blog.
Can you also add the link for Toby Johnstons blog to the article which is very detailed and descriptive
http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/remote-supportability/blog/2013/04/18/important-updates-for-bi4-monitoring-probes-alerts
Hello experts
I find a very interesting log, however I am facing a problem I have a Sybase ase 16 DB, the system (is a test environment) during the installation and later did not have any problem, however, after loading some BIAR of a productive system this test system began to present some performance problems, at the moment I have a hard time logging in and it takes too long to do so, how else or I do not know if there is any log at the O.S. level in any folder BO that can give me some reference for performance.
As for the database I have made different optimization tasks and I have already found some messages in the database that indicated lack of resources to start tasks, after this optimization there are no more errors in the database but the CMC still continues too slow.
I hope you can give me some other reference on how to solve my problem.
Regards!