Servers properties

Purpose

A BusinessObjects system is configured via a large set of properties, and its state can be analyzed via a set of metrics. This monitor allows to track property and metrics values and notify if not set to the appropriate value or out of the appropriate range.

Configuration hints

Discover property and metric names<br/> Press the button “Load properties” to get the list of properties and metrics available for all servers of the system. <br/>All selected properties will be added in an individual monitoring rule. You can also load property current values by selecting a rule and pressing the wizard button. This will help the find the proper setting<br/>

<br/>Thresholds<br/> If the property value is alphanumeric, simply type the expected value and you will be notified when the current value is different.<br/> If the property or metric value is numeric, you can set use the multi threshold syntax to define a threshold per severity: G2W:95 W2M:98 (Green to Warning if reaches 95, Warning to Major if reaches 98)<br/> You can filter on the server name to target a specific server.<br/>

<br/>Report<br/> You can define the properties and metrics you want to see in the report. For that, just create a rule for each one and activate the report check box

Surveillance table

Parameter	Description
Active	If checked, the rule will be active.
Server	The server(s) concerned by the rule
Property	The monitored property
Expected value	The value at which the property is expected to stay. If Property is a number you can use the advanced threshold syntax.
Severity	The severity of the alarm
Auto clear	If checked, the alarm will be cleared as soon as the alarm condition is not met anymore.
Prefix	This field allows to add custom text within the alarm message. %MSG% variable will contain the actual generated message and can be used such as: “my_prefix %MSG% my_suffix”. By default, tag will be used as prefix.
Alarm	If checked, this line of surveillance will be used for alarm generation.

Examples

Active	Server	Property	Expected value	Severity	Auto clear	Prefix	Alarm
true	*	LogLevel	Low	CRITICAL	true	true

Effect : An alarm will be generated if on one of the servers the property LogLevel is configured to something else than Low.