The monitoring feature, introduced in SAP BO 4, has watches, probes, metrics, and alerts as part of the monitoring process. Some default monitoring features allow an administrator, without any prior expertise or knowledge on the topic, to obtain useful information about the status of the system. Before using this feature, you need to know which actions to perform and understand the existing limitations. The new monitoring feature of the Central Management Console (CMC) allows administrators to monitor the usage and health of the SAP© BusinessObjects (BO) system.
You must ensure that you store the information for monitoring in the monitoring database. Because it is a CMS database, it works independently from the other two databases in SAP BO. To activate the monitoring database, use the following steps:
1. Log in to the CMC.
2. Select applications.
3. Double-click on the Monitoring application.
4. When the properties window of the Monitoring application opens, make sure to
check the `Enable Monitoring Application` option.
5. Click Save and Close.
6. If it is not checked, restart the Adaptive Processing Server (APS).
The information in the database is deleted every time the volume of data exceeds 1 GB. You can increase the size of the CMC.
Monitoring
To reach the monitoring section in the CMC, go to Applications > Monitoring as shown in the following monitoring default view: