SAP BO Business Intelligence Platform 4.

0
Monitoring
Introduction to Monitoring

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Examples of what can you do with Monitoring?

•Watches
Check performance of •Traffic lights
each server •Alerts

Activity and resource •KPIs

monitoring

Check system
•Probes
availability and response •Round trip time
time

Integrate with other •Open JMX

•Solution Manager
applications •IBM Tivoli Manager

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Access via the Central Management Console

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Monitoring Terms
Metrics

A system of related measures that facilitates

the quantification of some particular
characteristic of BI Landscape
 Host metrics (SAPOSCOL)
 Probe metrics
 Server Metrics
 Derived Metrics

Metrics can be consumed by BI 4.0 watches or

by other clients via JMX

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Monitoring Terms
Probes
Monitor different services and simulates the different functionalities of
BusinessObjects BI.
 Health Probes
 Diagnostic Probes
Can be scheduled or run on demand
There are 9 default probes.
New probes can be created using Probe SDK
 Implementation class and a new probe InfoObject (CLI,SDK,DFO)

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Monitoring Terms
Watch
Provide real-time status and historical trends of servers and workflows within the
BI 4.0 environment.
 System Watch
 User defined watch – Using data from probes, servers SAPOSCOL, derived metrics
State of watch represented by traffic lights
Users can define thresholds and alerts to a watch

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 Monitoring Dashboard
Performance and System Health
KPIs

Watches

Alerts

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Monitoring Trending Database

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CMC integration
Monitoring application configuration
 CMC -> Application -> Platform Monitoring
 Enable Monitoring Application
 Default JMX (Java Management eXtension) agent end point URL (IIOP)
 RMI (Remote Method Invocation)
 Host Metrics
 Other Settings

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High Level Architecture

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So why use the Remote Support Component (RSC)?
RSC collects much more varied data – and to a deeper level. Uses instrumentation in
the BI servers (introduced in XI 3.1 SP3)
Forwarded to Solution Manager
Uses the Monitoring infrastructure to collect a subset of its data

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