monitoring options for sap businessobjects
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The presentations goes thru on different monitoring options for SAP BusinessObjects XI and 4.0.TRANSCRIPT
BO Monitoring BasicsTamas Foldi – [email protected]
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Agenda
Q&A
Using the JMX Connectors
SAP Monitoring for BO 4.0
SAP Monitoring for BO XIr3.x
Starschema Monitoring Tool
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Who we are?
DWH Development / Operation
Technology Partners
Products
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Starschema BOXI Monitoring
Originally developed for XI, XIr2Support XIr2, XIr3, XI3.1
BO4.0 not, and never be supported
Versions and features Free Version
• Logon probe• Crystal Reports and Web Intelligence Probes
Commercial Version• History check – checks the job server
functionalities as well
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Business Objects Enterprise Monitoring
“Almost” Official SAP Monitoring Released as a “labs” product Works with XI 3.x and XI R2 Able to detect potential stability and
performance issues Access information by running queries in the
CMS database Provided by SAP SDN (SAP Developer
Network). Not supported officially by SAP.
Base of the BO40 Monitoring application
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Business Objects Enterprise Monitoring
Java based, integrated add-on The monitoring probes are JAVA based, operating system
independent. The solution is very flexible so you may stage the implementation.
Flexible output The result from the monitoring probes are in XSLT format
so they can be consumed in a market monitoring tool where rules, alerts and actions can be defined and implemented.
Easily extendable By default it is not able to monitor server status,
Starschema has its own, proven test probe which is able to provide this information. It is deployed and in-use in many of our customers infrastructure.
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Business Objects Enterprise Monitoring
Provides the following test probes CMS Logon Logoff Crystal Reports service through Page and Cache
Server Crystal Reports service through Report Application
Server Desktop Intelligence Service Web Intelligence Service CMS ping CMS cache CMS database connection Starschema server status
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Business Objects Enterprise Monitoring
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Business Objects Enterprise Monitoring
More information can be found at:
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Monitoring in BO40
New application in BO40
FeaturesBoth live and historical data
Performance, KPI, availability, response times, peak loads
Monitoring dashboard
Inbuilt workflows, email alerting
JMX and other 3rd party connectors
Historical database (for external reporting)
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Monitoring Terms
Metrics / Derived MetricsPerformance, availability and host metrics
User can create his own (like No. sessions / CPU)
Watches“If server enabled and server status is not running
then send warning email to”
ProbesSimulates the different functionalities (user logon,
database logon)
AlertsSpecial watches, where alert is enabled
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Architecture
Runs in APS (and AJS)
Supports cluster/failover (active-passive)
It is advised to put it on a separate APS server
Probes can be written in Java using SDK
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Architecture
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3rd Party connection
JMX = Java Management Extensions Access from external application
Refresh metrics
Poll and subscribe model
Supported by all monitoring tools
Dedicated connectorsIBM Tivoli
SAP Solution Manager
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Historical Database
Derby databaseUniverse can “see” it
Ability to create custom reports for SLA reporting
