eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by CogEventMngtTest

The Event Management service is responsible for the management of events. An event is any task that has run, is currently running, or will be run in future. The event management service manages the event execution queue. Events in the queue can be held for execution at a later time or removed from the queue. Events that are held can later be released for execution. Events to be run on an irregular basis can also be manually added to the event execution queue. These events are usually on-demand tasks or tasks that are executed in response to an external trigger condition.

The Content Manager Service works in conjunction with the Event Management Service to update the event execution queue whenever a schedule is added to, updated in, or deleted from the content store.

If the Event Management Service is unavailable, the event could not be executed on time and hence, the event execution queue may overflow with events. Also, the other services that are dependent of this service will be affected. Also, event execution may be hampered if multiple requests to the service failed. To avoid such issues, it is essential for an administrator to periodically monitor the Event Management Service. The Event Management Service test helps administrators in this regard!

This test monitors the Event Management Service and reports the current status of the service. This test also throws light on the number of Event Management Service requests that were successful/failed. This test helps administrators initiate troubleshooting to determine the reason for request failures and resolve the same at the earliest.

Outputs of the test: One set of results for the target IBM Cognos Business Intelligence suite being monitored.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
status Indicates the current status of the service.  

The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are listed in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Available 100
Unavailable 0

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the current status of the service. In the graph of this measure however, the same is represented using the numeric equivalents only i.e., 0 or 100.
processedRequests Indicates the number of requests that were processed during the last measurement period. Number

 
successfulRequests Indicates the number of service requests that were successful during the last measurement period. Number

A high value is desired for this measure.
successfulRequestsPerc Indicates the percentage of processed requests that were successful during the last measurement period. Percent

A value close to 100 percent denotes that most of the requests were processed successfully.
failedRequests Indicates the number of service requests that failed during the last measurement period. Number

A high value is a cause of concern. Administrators must analyze why the requests are failing frequently and initiate troubleshooting measures at the earliest.
failedRequestsPerc Indicates the percentage of processed requests that failed during the last measurement period. Percent

A value close to 100 is a cause of concern. A sudden / gradual increase in the value of this measure warrants administrators to initiate troubleshooting at the earliest.
successfulRequestsPerSec Indicates the rate at which the requests were processed successfully during the last measurement period. Requests/Sec