Dear Folks,
Just wanted to share some of the groundwork I did with BusinessObjects monitoring.BusinessObjects monitoring application helps administrators to identify if an application is functioning normally and response times are as expected.It also allows them to
Dashboard
The Dashboard page provides a centralized view for the system administrator to monitor the performance of all servers. It provides real-time information on the system KPIs, recent alerts, watches, and corresponding graphs based on the watch state.
Metrics
Metrics are foundation of the monitoring engine. A metric in its simplest definition is something to be measured. There are bunches and bunches of them predefined in the system such as CPU’s, CPU Utilization for the last 15 minutes, Total Memory, Number of Deadlocked Jobs.
Probes
Probes monitor different services and simulate the different functionalities of SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise components. By scheduling probes to run at specified intervals, the system administrator can track the availability and performance of key services provided by SAP BusinessObjects BI platform
Watch
Watches provide real-time status and historical trends of servers and workflows within the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform environment. Users can associate thresholds and alerts to a watch. You can create a watch using data from probes, servers or Derived Metrics.
Alert
An alert is a notification generated by the monitoring application, when a user-defined threshold value set for different metrics applied to a watch is breached. You can choose to receive alerts either through Email or view on the "Dashboard" page.
Below are all some of the probes and metrics that are utilized for monitoring in our environment.
Probe Name | Probe Description | Schedule plan |
CMS DB Connection | This probe tests the availability of the repository database | Every 30 mins |
CMS Ping | This probe sends an empty query to the CMS and check for its response. | Every 30 mins |
CMS Logon Logoff | This probe tests the availability of the CMS and the ability of users to log on to the system through client applications. | Every 30 mins |
Info View Probe | This probe will log in to the BI Launch Pad using an account and authentication type you specify. | Every 30 mins |
Crystal Reports Service | This probe will run a Crystal report using page and Cache Servers or RAS and track how long it takes to refresh it. | Every 30 mins |
Interactive Analysis | This probe will run a Web Intelligence report and track how long it takes to refresh it. | Every 30 mins |
Start Stop Servers | It will stop and start all of your servers. | Weekly |
List of Metrics (Shortlisted based on applicability)
Servers Metrics | Core | Crystal | WebI | Dashboard | Schedule frequency | |||||||
Central Management Server | Input File Repository | Output File Repository | Connection Server | Crystal Reports Cache Server | Crystal Reports Processing Server | Adaptive Job Server | Adaptive Processing Server | Web Intelligence Processing Server | Dashboards Cache Server | Dashboards Processing Server | ||
Health State | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| X | X | X | X | 30 mins |
Server Running State | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 30 mins |
Server Enabled State | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 30 mins |
Busy Server Threads |
| X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 30 mins |
Disk Size | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| X | X | X | 30 mins |
CPU Usage Percentage last 15 minutes |
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CPU Usage Percentage last 5 minutes |
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Total Disk Space in Root Directory (GB) |
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Free Disk Space in Root Directory (GB) |
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CPU Usage (%) |
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Virtual memory size (MB) |
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X - represents the applicability.
We will see more in detail about scheduling of probes and metrics, creating watches and alerting in my upcoming blogs.
Looking for your valuable feedback. Thanks for reading.
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Monitoring Blogs
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Monitoring Configuration - Part(1)
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