BI Platform Monitoring in Business Objects Enterprise XI 4.0

Monitoring Benefits

• Understand System Helth

1. Identifying Anomalies
2. Supporting Maintenance
3. System Failure Prevention

Monitoring in XI 3.X

• Monitor deployment using probes

1. Probes provide the ability to monitor BO system using simulated application workflows which are run through SDK-based scripts
2. Provided in a Monitoring Add-on package available for Material from Business Objects Labs

• Monitor using system and application tools

1. Using enterprise CMC, Web server etc

Monitoring in BI 4.0

• Monitoring a brand new application in CM and is shipped with the platform
• Provides Dashboard showing Bird's view of SBOWE deployment

1. Status of servers, alerts and KPIs

• Uses metrics exposed by different servers
• Maintains history and provides graphical visualazations
• Provides threshold notifications
• Default watches for all servers
• Intergration with SAP Solution Manager and IBM Tivoli

Main Pillars of Monitoring

• Metrics – Related measure like cpu usage RAM usage etcs
• Probes – To check availability of SBOE services by simulating workflows
• Watch – Provides real time status and historical trends of servers and workflows
• Alert – Notifications generated when user defined threshold value is reached

Monitoring Application in BOBJ 4.0 is based on JMX technology

Metrics

• Each server exposes its own metrics

1. Owned by Domain teams

• System level metrics

1. CPU, threads, memory

• Application level metrics

1. Number of sessions, completed jobs etc

• Derived Metrics – Create by administrators by defining formulas
• Metrics can be consumed by other tools via JMX like IBM Tivoli tool
• Computed with in SBOW by watches

1. "real time" graphical view of any metric
2. Search / filer from toolbox

Probes

• Extension of probes concept in XI 3
• Typically a probe returns a Boolean result and a roundtrip time which can be monitored using a watch
• Probes can be run manually or schedules
• Intergrated in CMC and accessed from Monitoring Application, some probes will be shipped default
• Command line access

Watches

• Provide real-time status and historical trends of servers and workflows
• Two types

1. System watch
2. User Created watch

• Watch is a traffic light with either with two or three status (OK, Caution, Danger)
• Some watches are shipped with Monitoring Application

Monitoring Application is integrated with CMC

• Server status is determined by it's associate watch
• Clicking Server health icon to show watch details
• New column 'Health' in CMC server's list to show the status of each server

Third Parties Integration

• Integration with IBM Tivoli via Tivoli Enterprise monitoring Agent
• Integration with SAP solution Manager
• Open JMX framework allows simple integration

Roadmap – Planned in 4.1

• Graphical and tabular view with health status of each server
• Problem Drill Down and Root Cause using "follow the red"
• Facility to add own scripts for moniring
• Facility to create and select custom KPIs
• Summary of recent problem
• Monitoring trending universe – Reports based on this universe
• Template monitoring reports

Alerts notifications via email can be sent

Also Read:

 Material BOBJ XI 4.0 Documentation and User Guides