Configuring a Watch and Alerts

SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025 provides a lot of predefined metrics by default. You can view them in the Metrics List page within BI Admin Studio.

Definition:

• Administrator can access the list of Metrics by opening the Metrics tile in the Monitoring area of the BI Admin Studio.
• There are hundreds of metrics available by default (the tile displays a total). This list of metrics is organized in the following "tree" structure.

Besides predefined metrics, administrators can also create additional metrics to set a customized monitoring (for instance: % of connected users on SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025). New metrics are called 'derived metrics' in BI Admin Studio.

Definition:

• A derived metric is user defined formula incorporating one or more of the existing metrics with mathematical expressions.
• A derived metric has the same functionality as other metrics.

In BI Admin Studio, a derived metrics provide only live data view by default (no history data). If you want to see history data view of a derived metric, a Watch including this derived metric has to be created to collect and store history data periodically (history data is collected every 60s by default).

Definition:

• A Watch includes one or more metrics and one or two thresholds (Danger and Caution).
• Any metric can be included in a Watch.
• An alert is sent by a Watch only when one threshold is reached for a metric included in a Watch.
• The Monitoring application evaluates each Watch on a periodic basis. If either of the thresholds have been crossed, the application will check and update the status.

A Watch is able to send alerts when one threshold is reached for a metric included in a Watch. You can consult all alerts triggered by all Watches in the Alerts Page in BI Admin Studio.

Definition:

• Alerts notify selected users when Watch rules have been satisfied (by crossing either the Caution or Danger thresholds).
• These notifications can be sent via e-mail or within the Alerts Page of the BI Admin Studio.

You can also control the triggering frequency of alerts in the Watch properties.

Definition:

• To reduce repetitive alert notification, you can set in a Watch how long a caution or danger state must persist before triggering the alert.
• You can also select a probe to execute when the criteria are met in a Watch rule.

Probes are available in BI Admin Studio. They can test a platform functionality, like the viewing functionality for Web Intelligence documents or the health of the Central Management Server (CMS).

Definition:

Administrator uses Probes to provide systematic and detailed approach to test the functionality of SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025.

• Another type of monitoring of SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025 is the use of probes.
• Unlike watches that monitor the status of a server, probes test the functionality of the system.
• Probes can be viewed on the Probes tile of the BI Admin Studio.
  Note

  Probes are important tool for troubleshooting, performance tuning, or security analysis.

Metrics for Probes:

A Probe contains and gives always two metrics:

• Result metric: Execution status of the probe.
  • "1": Failed (means that the execution of probe has failed).
  • "2": Pass (means that the execution of probe is successful).
• Round Trip Time metric: Execution time of the probe (in milliseconds).

Preset Probes:

There are nine preset probes in the BI Admin Studio:

• BI Launch Pad
• CMS Cache
• CMS DB Connection
• CMS Logon Logoff
• CMS Ping
• Crystal Reports Service (Processing Server)
• Crystal Reports Service (Report Application Server)
• Start Stop Servers
• Web Intelligence

Also, you can register (add) custom probes to your system. There are two possible sources for custom probes:

• Script Probe: You can register script-based probes.
  Note

  Follow the link to register new script-based probes: (Registering Script-Based Probes).
• Java Based Probes: You can register Java based probes.
  Note

  Follow the link to register new java-based probes: (Registering Java Based Probes).