Configuration of BobiMDASrvcTest

This test tracks the MDAS sessions to the service and reports the number of OLAP data requests received through those sessions that are yet to be processed by the service. In the process, the test reveals how well the service is handling the requests it receives and quickly leads administrators to processing bottlenecks that the service may be experiencing.

The default parameters associated with this test are:

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

• Specify the the host name of the server for which the test is to be configured in the HOST text box.

• Specify the port at which the specified HOST listens to in the PORT text box. This should be the port at which the web application server hosting SAP BOBI listens.

• In large SAP environments, SAP BOBI installations can have several BI platform server hosts working together in a cluster. A node is a collection of BI platform servers running on the same host and managed by the same Server Intelligence Agent (SIA). One or more nodes can be on a single host. An Adapative Processing Server hosts a lot of BI services and processes non-Object/post processing requests. Multiple APSes may be defined on multiple nodes within a deployment. A single APS acts a primary server to process requests pertaining to the services hosted by the APS from the target SAP BOBI. In some environments, eG Enterprise failed to collect metrics from the target BOBI continuously. This was because, when the APSes failed over, the APS that was acting as a primary server corresponded to a different BOBI node and the eG agent failed to establish connection with the APS that was currently processing the service requests. To ensure that the metrics are collected seamlessly from the target BOBI, the eG agent should be equipped with the IP addresses of the target BOBI node as well as the IP addresses of all the Adaptive Processing Servers associated with the target BOBI node. For this purpose, specify a comma-separated list of IP addresses corresponding to the APSes in the MONITORING HOSTS text box.

• Specify the RMI port number of the BOBI monitoring application in the JMX REMOTE PORT text box. To know the RMI port number of the monitoring application, refer to Monitoring SAP Business Objects document.

• Specify the lookup name for connecting to the JMX connector of the BOBI monitoring application in the JNDI NAME text box. To know the JNDI name, refer to Monitoring SAP Business Objects document.

• Enter the credentials of an enterprise authenticated BOBI user belonging to the default monitoring users group in the JMX USER and JMX PASSWORD text boxes.

• Confirm the password by retyping it in the CONFIRM PASSWORD text box.

• Specify the name of the BOBI node being monitored in the NODE NAME text box. Note that the NODE NAME parameter is case-sensitive.

• PROVIDER parameter appears only if the Mode is set to JMX. This test uses a JMX Provider to access the MBean attributes of the target Java application and collect metrics. Specify the package name of this JMX Provider in the PROVIDER textbox. By default, this parameter is set to default indicating that this test automatically discovers the JMX provider and report metrics.

• Specify the maximum duration (in seconds) for which the test will wait for a response from the server in the TIMEOUT textbox. The default TIMEOUT period is 30 seconds.

• If multiple components of the same component type are awaiting configuration, then an APPLY TO OTHER COMPONENTS check box will appear in this page. Clicking on this check box will allow you to apply the configuration to all/selected components of that type.

• Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the UPDATE button will register the changes made.

When changing the configuration for specific servers, a “*” beside the text box corresponding to the parameter signifies that these values have to be manually configured by the user. The parameter values that require to be configured will typically be prefixed with a “$” or contain a series of “*”. A value of "none" in the parameter value indicates that the corresponding parameter value can be changed if required.