SAP BO Business Intelligence Platform 4.0
Monitoring
Introduction to Monitoring
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Examples of what can you do with Monitoring?
Check performance of
each server
Activity and resource
monitoring
Check system
availability and response
time
Integrate with other
applications
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•Watches
•Traffic lights
•Alerts
•KPIs
•Probes
•Round trip time
•Open JMX
•Solution Manager
•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
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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)?
collects much more varied data – and to a deeper level. Uses instrumentation in
the BI servers (introduced in XI 3.1 SP3)
RSC
Forwarded
Uses
to Solution Manager
the Monitoring infrastructure to collect a subset of its data
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