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Mastering SAP Monitoring
WITHOUT CMC or Solution Manager
Session 5
BusinessObjects (BOBJ) Monitoring

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• 21 years of global SAP Basis consulting
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• 16 years of IT Systems Management &
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• Long standing SAP Partnerships
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BusinessObjects (BOBJ) Publications
• SAP BOBJ Performance Best Practices:
– http://www.itconductor.com/blog/sap-bobj-
performance-best-practice
– New BI 4.2 Sizing Guide: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-
33183
• SAP Solution Manager Monitoring:
– 3 Parts setup Guide:
http://itconductor.com/blog/sap-solution-
manager-technical-monitoring-of-bobj-bi-4-0-
part-1-of-3/
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BOBJ Availability & Performance Challenges
• Availability is critical because users of BI are typically management
reporting and business analysts needing important reports. These BOBJ
components
– Enterprise node
– Server Intelligence Agent (SIA)
– BI servers
– BI services
• Performance: utilization, workload, trend analysis
– Hosts
– Probes
– Servers
– Jobs
• Alerts
– Events, traces
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“Properly deploying your SAP BusinessObjects BI4 or SAP
Lumira landscape involves more than punching some numbers
into a calculator and installing the right number of servers.
Approaching this from a BI systems perspective means
understanding how your BI system works and making
intelligent decisions to ensure good system performance and
stability.” – SAP http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-33183

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What’s Available for BOBJ Monitoring from SAP?
• BI CMC (Central Management Console)
– Leverages the Monitoring Service of the CMS (Central
Management Server)
– Setup requires configuration using Monitoring section
in BI Platform Administrator Guide
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sb
o42/en/sbo42sp2_bip_admin_en.pdf
– Uses either Derby DB (temporary) or Trending DB
(Auditing Data Store – ADS)
– Host data requires SAPHOSTAGENT ‘saposcol’
– Dashboard, Metrics, Watchlist, Probes & Alerts
• Probes need scheduling
• Alerts need Watchlist, i.e. set rules with threshold to trigger
events, and configure email notifications
– Not a centralized enterprise monitoring solution
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What’s Available for BOBJ Monitoring from SAP?
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What’s Available for BOBJ Monitoring from SAP?
• Solution Manager:
– The setup is lengthy, the patching is tiring:
– See our free Setup Guide & demo video:
http://www.itconductor.com/download-sap-solution-manager-bobj-
monitoring-setup
– Requires:
• Solman Technical Monitoring infrastructure configuration
• Solman Diagnostics Agent Installation and SAPHOSTAGENT
• BI AC (Auto Configuration) Tool on BOBJ
• Solman Managed System Configuration
• Apache Tomcat Web Server monitoring setup
– Customization required for Alerts & Notfication
– Significant number of BOBJ customers don’t configure or use Solman Technical
Monitoring
– Hard to troubleshoot and/or relate BOBJ to other monitoring landscape &
scenarios
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What’s Available for BOBJ Monitoring from SAP?
• Solution Manager:
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Our Best of Breed Approach to BI Monitoring
• OZSoft BOBJ Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM:
– http://ozsoft-consulting.com/mp4bobj/
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Our Best of Breed Approach to BI Monitoring
• OZSoft BOBJ Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM:
– Low Cost yet Flexible Solution for monitoring BusinessObjects BI
in SCOM
– Integrates BI Central Management Console monitoring
capabilities with SCOM for Centralized Performance and
Availability Monitoring and Alert Management
– Forwards BI Events and Trace-logs entries to SCOM, enabling
the use of SCOM’s powerful alert management, reporting and
notification capabilities across the enterprise landscape
– Seamless integration of BusinessObjects Probes for Synthetic
monitoring, as well as BOBJ Job Monitoring
– BI Platform Windows Services Monitoring and Management,
including Auto-Recovery
– SLA Monitoring and Dashboards
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Our Best of Breed Approach to BI Monitoring
• BOBJ MP for SCOM Features & Benefits:
 Availability
o BI Enterprise Nodes and Servers availability is monitored via BI CMS Web Services.
o BI Windows Services (such as SIA and Tomcat) are monitored locally using SCOM
Agent
 Alert Management
o BI Events are forwarded to SCOM Alert.
o Server Trace-logs entries are continuously monitored for the new entries, that are
forwarded to SCOM Alerts.
o Alert filtering and suppression is supported allowing for flexible alert management.
 Performance Monitoring
o Various monitoring perspective such as Enterprise Nodes, Servers, Probes and
Windows Services with a growing list of performance counters, which can be charted
in SCOM Performance views and Dashboards
 SCOM Reporting Ready
o Include BusinessObjects Performance & Availability Metrics in SCOM Data
Warehouse Reports.
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Our Best of Breed Approach to BI Monitoring
• IT-Conductor: IT Performance Management in the Cloud
– SaaS based, no software, no licensing, managed monitoring services with
Subject-matter expert guidance and best practices
– Monitoring, Management and Automation with integration with entire
SAP ecosystem
– Supports hierarchical service-oriented monitoring and service level
– Subscription based threshold, alerts and notifications
– Time-synchronized for health and root-cause analysis
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Our Best of Breed Approach to BI Monitoring
• IT-Conductor: Service-oriented Monitoring & Automation
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