eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by BobiProbesTest

Probes are a critical component of the SAP BOBI’s Monitoring application. Probes monitor different services and simulate the different functionalities of 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 BI platform. If these probes run slowly, it can adversely impact the Monitoring application’s ability to ascertain service availability and responsiveness in real-time. Using the BobiProbesTest test, administrators can quickly isolate probes that are running slower than the rest. This knowledge will help administrators investigate the the cause for the slowness and eliminate it, so that the probes can deliver timely health reports to administrators.

In addition to highlighting slow probes, the BobiProbesTest test also helps administrators track the results of the tests that probes run and in the process, pinpoints the probes where tests failed. Administrators can then use the Monitoring application to figure out which tests failed and thus identify unavailable/unresponsive services.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
executiontime Indicates the time taken for this probe to execute. Secs A high value is indicative of a slow probe. Compare the value of this measure across probes to identify the slowest probe.
passed Indicates whether/not the test run by this probe passed.   The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are discussed in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Yes 1
No 0

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the whether/not the test run by the node passed. In the graph of this measure however, the same is represented using the numeric values only.