Any tools in Business Objects XI to monitor servers/services

server administration XI Server Discussion
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Hi All,

Can somebody help me to find out below doubts in Business Objects XI R2 ASAP.

Is there any tools avaialble in BO XI R2 to alert regarding any server failures or problem or events monitoring.

If there is no such tool available, can you somebody suggest me a best tool which can integrate with BO XI R2 platform.

Can netcool(OMNbus) directly integrate with BO XI R2 platform ??

Thanks in advance

Raghu

itsmeraghu (BOB member since 2007-03-16)

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hi

I think to monitor the servers/services BO has provided the CMS and CCM consoles.
For traking the events and issues auditing needs to be activated for perticuler event api. I haven’t done this so far but I have read this in the administration guide for BO XI R2.
Like to know if there is such external tool are available to monitor the BO.

regards
Amit

amit.khadilkar (BOB member since 2005-11-11)

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There is no usefull solution out of the box to monitor XI services.

What you need is an external monitoring tool and define what you want to track on the server: services, …

If you want to go into the detail of the services ot see if they are working vs up (and hanging) you will have to use the BO SDK to test the functions and define what the result will be.

It is not standard but then again ever customer has different needs and expectations, on how it should be monitored.

What would be useful is a list on sample code for some of these check’s.

BO activity tracking can be done with the BO auditing feature if you are a premium customer. It will not cover your deski clients.

ClaireB :de: (BOB member since 2002-08-09)

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hi Klaus,

I didnt understand weather to use the external tool or SDK or both are required, have you done this in past? it will be gr8 if you can share few sdk funcition names to be used in such scenario…

thanks,
Amit

amit.khadilkar (BOB member since 2005-11-11)

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You probaby need both,

External tools for the service monitoring.

SDK for more detailed testing on the service status.
You probably need an external tool to launch the external tools.

It depends on how detailed you want to enable tracking

ClaireB :de: (BOB member since 2002-08-09)

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Thanks Klaus for the information…

Have you got any list of tools which are good ?

Thanks& Regards… Raghu

itsmeraghu (BOB member since 2007-03-16)

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Sorry,

I am not the expert in this area here a few names of what we my customers are using.

BMC
Veritas/Symantec
Computer Associate

This are all pretty expensive but also very compelte monitoring solutions.

In the linux/opensource you will find things like

heart beat
big borther
nagions

and many others. The most common I would say is simple bat files with test commands sent to the server.

ClaireB :de: (BOB member since 2002-08-09)