Managing monitor models

Use this page to view information about and manage monitor models.

To view this administrative console page, click Applications > Monitor Models.

To manage a deployed model, select the application name in the list, and click one of the following buttons:
Button Resulting action
Start Attempts to run the monitor model. After the model starts up successfully, the state of the model changes to Started if the model starts on all deployment targets. Otherwise, the state changes to Partial Start.
Stop Attempts to stop the processing of the model. After the model stops successfully, the state of the model changes to Stopped if the model stops on all deployment targets. Otherwise, the state changes to Partial Stop.
Install Opens a wizard that helps you deploy an application or a module such as a .jar, .war or .rar file onto a server or a cluster.
  • Monitor models
    From this page, manage all versions of a monitor model and their associated applications. For each version of a monitor model, you can start or stop the model, see if the model is deployed, view data security, and view the status of the monitor model.
  • Monitor model version properties
    Use this page to view the general properties for a specific version of a monitor model. These values are applicable only for the selected version of the monitor model.
  • Manage schema
    Use this page to run or export scripts for creating or deleting schema.
  • Enable data movement service
    Use this page to enable data movement service locally and remotely.
  • Scheduled services interval
    Use this page to change the interval for the selected scheduled service.
  • Monitoring context collection
    Use this page to view the monitoring context of a specific version of a model.
  • Monitoring context details
    Use this page to view the monitoring context details for a specific version of a model.
  • Publish or republish the IBM Cognos BI cube packages
    Publishes or republishes the IBM® Cognos® BI cube packages for the current model version (the default value) or for each model version.
  • Manage IBM Cognos BI cubes
    Use this page to publish, export, or delete IBM Cognos BI cube packages. You can also see information about when the cubes were last published and when any fine-grained security rules were last updated.
  • Runtime configuration settings
    Use this page to configure the general and error handling properties of the runtime configuration for a model version.
  • Monitor model settings
    View and configure the properties of all the versions of a selected monitor model.
  • Change event sources
    You can add and remove the event sources that are registered to this monitor model version. And, for each event source that is registered to the model version, you can see the current status as well as the version of Business Monitor that supports it.
  • Change event consumption mode
    Use this page to modify how this version of the monitor model is configured to process events.
  • Event Sources
    Use this page to see a comprehensive list of event sources for IBM Business Monitor. Here you can add, delete, edit, and view the status of event sources. You can also see that event recording is enabled or disabled in the Event Recording column.
  • Add remote event sources
    You can add event sources for the available sources in a remote cell. The host name, SOAP port number, and local authentication alias of the deployment manager for the remote cell are the required connection parameters for adding event sources.
  • Edit event source
    You can modify the event source display name and enable or disable event recording for this CEI* event source.
  • Edit event source
    You can modify the event source display name and enable or disable event recording for this Dynamic Event Framework (DEF) event source.
  • Change event consumption mode settings
    Use this page to view and change the event configuration properties for a specific model version. These values are applicable only for the selected version of the monitor model.
  • Select monitor model options
    Use this page to select the database, runtime, KPI migration, and dashboard options for a monitor model.
  • Configuring security for the monitor model
    For a monitor model to be visible to users, it must be added to a resource group and users must be assigned a role within that resource group. A resource group is a logical grouping of models that provides for easy administration of data access permissions. Select an existing resource group or create a new resource group for the monitor model you are deploying.
  • Select monitor model IBM Cognos BI options
    Use this page to select the IBM Cognos BI options for a monitor model.
  • Select event sources
    Event sources indicate where the events that this monitor model consumes can originate from. The local cell where Business Monitor is running is preselected for you.
  • Export instance data
    Copy selected instances to another location. You can export instances in a flat file to various target environments including a file system backup, databases or data warehouses, and Excel.
  • Import instance data
    Import selected instances from another location to the monitor database. For example, you can import instance data to reverse the archive operation or to clone data for new test and development environments. The data is imported into CSV files.
  • Purging and archiving instance data
    To increase dashboard efficiency and performance, purge instance data from the IBM Business Monitor database and archive it to a directory on your IBM Business Monitor server. You can purge and archive instance data for a particular model version on a one-time basis as described below or periodically using Monitor scheduled services.
  • Schedule purging and archiving instance data
    Schedule purging instance data from the monitor database and archiving it to a directory on the server.
  • Browse directories on the server file system
    This page shows all directories on the IBM Business Monitor server to which you can archive purged instance data.
  • Browse remote file systems
    This page shows all directories and remote file systems to which you can archive purged instance data.
  • Configuring the data services scheduler
    Use the Data Services Scheduler on the administrative console to configure and view information about data services scheduled to run at various intervals for a particular model.
  • Viewing scheduled services
    View all of your scheduled data services for a particular model. You can drill down into a scheduled service to see configuration and status for each version of the model.
  • IBM Business Monitor scheduled services
    View the scheduler configuration and status for all monitor models.
  • Scheduled services properties
    View general and detailed properties of the scheduled services for a model.
  • Model purge
    Use this page to remove all versions of a model from the lifecycle tables in the repository database.
  • Scheduled services for model versions
    View different versions of a scheduled service for a model.
  • View scheduled services
    View all of the services that are scheduled for a model.
  • Select the database type
    Select the type of database for the CEI event service data store.
  • Select an event service
    Configure the emitter factory to use an existing or a new event service.
  • Select properties for the database
    The title for this page reflects the type of database that you chose for the CEI event service. Each database type has somewhat different parameters.

Preferences

Maximum rows

Specifies the maximum number of rows that are displayed when the collection is large. Those rows that are not displayed can be seen on the next page.

Retain filter criteria

Specifies whether to use the same filter entered in the show filter function to display this page the next time you visit it.

Do not show uninstalled Model Versions

Specifies whether the undeployed model versions are hidden or not

Model

Displays the name of the deployed monitor model. Click a model to view and modify model-specific properties.

Version

Displays the specific version of the monitor model. Click a version to view and modify version-specific properties.

Deployment

Displays the deployment status of the model version.

Application

Displays the application associated with a monitor model. Click an application to view and modify application-specific properties.

Data Security

Displays the state of the Monitor data security for the monitor model. Data security values can be members assigned, no members assigned, and security disabled. Click the Data Security column for the monitor model to access the monitor data security application where you can select a role for the resource group and add users to a role. You can also diagnose view additional details, to add the model to a resource group, or to select a role for the resource group.

Status

Displays the status of the monitor model deployed on the application server

Table 1. Status of the monitor model deployment
Icon Status Description
Started Started The monitor model is running.
     
Partial Start Partial Start The monitor model is in the process of changing from a Stopped state to a Started state. Application is starting to run but is not fully running yet. Or, it cannot fully start because a server mapped to one or more application modules is stopped.
     
Stopped Stopped The monitor model is not running.
     
Partial Stop Partial Stop The monitor model is in the process of changing from a Started state to a Stopped state. Application has not stopped running yet.
     
Unavailable Unavailable Status cannot be determined.

A monitor model with an unavailable status might, in fact, be running but have an unavailable status because the server running the administrative console cannot communicate with the server running the monitor model.
     
Unknown Not applicable The monitor model does not provide information whether it is running.