Requirements for monitoring Oracle EPM system
(Particularly Hyperion Components). Currently there are propriety
solutions which can be over kill in both financial outlay,
implementation effort and functionality. Many of the issues caused by
the Microsoft Windows 32bit limitations have been resolved by the
installation of the EPM components on 64 bit OSes. eg HFM Memory
allocation errors.
Current Oracle included free options like the
Weblogic Enterprise Manager will give information about the deployed
Java based web applications but the tool will not give information about
the none Weblogic components plus the UI is rather
complicated/cumbersome.
A large part of basic URL monitoring
can be done with standard in house IT tools, HP Openview, Nagios etc
Often the UI of these products is quite involved. The EPM administrator
would prefer a simple straight up web page showing the over all health
of the environment.
The idea behind the monitoring system is
as an early warning system, it is not the idea that the EPM Monitoring
system will indicate problems due to badly or miss installed
environments.
Proof of Concept EPM Components to Monitor
Highlight any Oracle EPM Related issues before the users phone and complain.
Give an indication on how responsive the web sites are.
Oracle EPM Components considered for Monitoring
- Shared Services
- Workspace
- Performance Management Architect
- Calculation Manager
- Financial Reporting and Analysis
- Financial Management
- Financial Data Quality Management
- Planning
- Essbase Administration Services
- Essbase Provider Services
Basic Server and EPM Process Monitoring
- VMware Monitoring Not Considered
- OS Event log Monitoring Phase3
- Oracle EPM 11.1.2.1 log file Monitoring Phase 2
- Web Site Monitoring/Functional Monitoring Phase 1/POC
Tools
Proprietary Tools for Monitoring Oracle/Hyperion System 9 and Oracle EPM 11 environments
www.accelatis.com
www.triometric.com
Opensource Components
Some Ideas:Linkchecker http://code.google.com/p/linkchecker/
w3c Link Validation
WebInject (really cool) http://webinject.org/
Nagios
Ideally
the solution required the minimum of new components to be installed, so
no agents, but utilise the Tools already agailable in all EPM
environments, Weblogic, Java, JPhython and Perl.
Monitoring Output should be graphical. It should present historical data on a web page.