Identifying Monitoring Features

BI Admin Studio is the monitoring and alerting application in SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025. In the landing page of BI Admin Studio, you can monitor all server or BI content metrics, for instance.

Definition:

• Within the BI Admin Studio, there is a section called the Monitoring.
• Administrators use Monitoring to maintain a healthy, efficient, and secure SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025 with real-time insights.

Monitoring allows you to do the following tasks:

• The performance of each server is possible with the help of watches, which show the state of each server as traffic lights. You as a system administrator, can set thresholds for these watches. Also, you can receive alerts when these thresholds are breached. You can then resolve issues where there's case of failure or outage.
• View key performance indicator (KPI): This KPI helps in activity and resource monitoring. KPIs are displayed on the dashboard page of the monitoring application.
• View the entire SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025 deployment (both in graphical and tabular format) based on server groups, service categories, and enterprise nodes.
• View the recent failures on the dashboard screen.
• Check system availability and response time: Using probes, you can simulate workflows to check if the servers and services in the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025 deployment are functioning as expected. By analyzing the round-trip time of these probes at periodic intervals, the system administrator can evaluate the system usage pattern.
• Analyze peak load and peak period for the CMS: Peak load helps the system administrator determine if more licences or system resources are needed.
• Integrate with other enterprise applications: The SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025 monitoring application can be integrated with other enterprise applications like SAP Solution Manager and IBM Tivoli Monitoring.

Definition:

The following list gives terms related to the monitoring application:

• Trend:

  Record or display historical data for the purpose of finding trends.

• Dashboard:

  The Dashboard page provides a centralized view for the system administrator to monitor the performance of all servers.

  It provides real-time information on the system KPIs, recent alerts, and watches, and corresponding graphs based on the watch states.

• Watch:

  Watches provide real-time status and historical trends of servers and workflows within the BI platform environment.

  Users can associate thresholds and alerts with watches. You can create a watch using data from probes, servers, SAPOSCOL, or derived metrics.

• Derived metric:

  Derived metrics are metrics that you create by combining two or more existing metrics in a mathematical equation.

  You can create a metric based on the user's requirements, and then create a watch using this metric.

• Topological metric:

  Topological metrics provide you with the net state for each service category in the BI platform.

  For example, the Crystal Reports service gives you the combined health state of all the watches related to Crystal Reports servers.

• Health State:

  These are the health state values:

  • "0" - "DANGER"
  • "1" - "CAUTION"
  • "2" - "OK"
• KPI:

  KPIs (key performance indicators) are standard metrics in the BI platform. They provide information about schedules and login sessions.

  For example, a higher number of Running Jobs indicates good performance of the servers. Alternatively, a higher number of Pending Jobs indicates poor performance and high system load.

• Probe:

  Probes monitor different services and simulate the different functionalities of the BI platform components.

  By scheduling probes to run at specified intervals, the system administrator can track the availability and performance of key services provided by the BI platform. This data can also be used for capacity planning.

• Traffic light:

  A traffic light is an icon that displays the color Green, Amber, or Red to indicate the state of a watch at any given time.

  Users can choose to set two or three states to a watch.

• Trending graph:

  A trending graph is a graphical representation of historical metric data generated by probes and servers.

  It helps the system administrator monitor the system at different time intervals, and assess the system usage pattern.

• Alert:

  An alert is a notification generated by the monitoring application, when a user-defined threshold value set for different metrics applied to a watch is breached.

  You can choose to receive alerts either through email or on the Dashboard page.

BI Admin Studio is a monitoring application based on a monitor service running on SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025.

Definition:

• A dedicated Monitoring Service has to be hosted in a running Adaptive Processing Server to enable administrators to use BI Admin Studio.
• The Monitoring Service provides the core services available in the BI Admin Studio application.
• Monitoring Service is based on a dedicated database called Trending database that stores historical data.
• All monitoring data can be viewed in live mode or in history mode.

The following link gives you a high-level overview of the monitoring architecture with a description of each part:

Monitoring Architecture