OPS-15: What was Happening with My Database, AppServer ™, OS... Yesterday, Last Month, Last Year? Libor LaubacherRuanne Cluer Principal Tech Support Engineer

OPS-15: What was Happening with My Database, AppServer™, OS ... Yesterday, Last Month, Last Year?

Libor LaubacherRuanne Cluer Principal Tech Support Engineer Principal Tech Support Engineer

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation2 OPS-15: What was happening with my Database, AppServer, OS ...

Agenda

What's New in OpenEdge® Management 3.1C Fathom Trend database overview Current OpenEdge Management reports Progress® EasyAsk® overview Building EasyAsk dictionary for Fathom Trend

database Querying the data Wrap up

What was happening with my database ….


What's New in OE Management 3.1C

Property configuration• enabled in 3.1C by default

• local and remote Resource properties distribution

• propagates polling properties from an existing resource

Rotating unified brokers log file support• affects AppServer & WebSpeed®

• available since SP1

New features of 3.1C and 10.1C



Java™ 1.5 support• including 64-bit

Adminserver debugging• -DdebugJVM=yes

IPv6 support• -ipver IPv4/IPv6

Remote monitoring improvements• threads deadlock fix

Remote (log) file monitoring

New features of 3.1C and 10.1C (cont.)


Property configuration - demo



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What's New in OpenEdge Management 3.1C Fathom Trend database overview Current OpenEdge Management reports Progress EasyAsk overview Building EasyAsk dictionary for Fathom Trend




Fathom Trend Database overview

OpenEdge database• default location $FATHOM/db

Used to store performance data for a monitored resource• fed via JDBC from OpenEdge Management• trending of the data is optional• polling interval configurable

Default poll timeout is 5 minutes• 288 samples per day

What is Fathom Trend database ?



Schema and table descriptions available in OpenEdge Management online help• Help Documentation Index

Some tables worth mentioning• Cf_resrc• Cf_sample• DB_*, OE_*, Sys_*• Ar_*

What is Fathom Trend database ? (cont.)



Trend DB can contain 2 sample types• real-time

• archived Compaction Job

• converts “real-time” data into “archived”

• takes samples (Cf_*, Db_*, Sys_* …) and archives them into daily, weekly, monthly information (rows in Ar_* tables)

• possible to purge old data

What is Fathom Trend database ? (cont.)



Db_ActSum TableActSum_Commits

ActSum_Undos

ActSum_DbReads

…

Cf_SampleSample_Date

Sample_Transaction

…

Ar_ActSumActSum_Commits

ActSum_Undos

ActSum_DbReads

…

ActSum_StartDate

ActSum_EndDate

ActSum_Transactions

What is Fathom Trend database ? (cont.) – Compaction example


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Current OpenEdge Management reports

Pure ABL (4GL) reports• predefined

– r-code shipped

• C/N license required

• located under $FATHOM/src• multiple formats output

Source code available• $FATHOM/src/fathom4gl-p.pl

OpenEdge Management reports overview



General reports• alert detail

• alert summary System reports

• CPU & memory summary

• file system, network and disk activity AppServer & WebSpeed reports

• performance

• application profile

OpenEdge Management reports overview (cont.)



Database reports• ai & bi info

• checkpoints

• table & index analysis

• table & index usage

• locking report

• summary report

OpenEdge Management reports overview (cont.)


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Progress EasyAsk overview

Allows its users to communicate with a database in their native language• English, French, Dutch, German …

Puts Ad Hoc reporting in the hands of its end users• no need to involve IT to get a new report

Integrates with several security models active directory, LDAP …

Complements existing reporting systems

In short, what does EasyAsk do ?



Translates user’s question into SQL Executes it against the database Returns the answer

Current version 11.0• includes the ability to simultaneously search the

database and existing reports.• provides ‘a type ahead ability’ to help users

understand the type of questions they can ask• automatically “offers” data names and previously

asked questions

In short, what does EasyAsk do ? (cont.)



“Who buys seafood but not dairy products” translates to:SELECT [CUSTOMERS].[LAST_NAME] as [Last Name], [CUSTOMERS].[FIRST_NAME] as [First Name], [CUSTOMERS].[COMPANY_NAME] as [Company Name] FROM [CUSTOMERS] WHERE EXISTS(SELECT * FROM [ORDERS], [LINE ITEMS], [PRODUCTS], [CATEGORIES] WHERE ([Category Name]='Seafood') and [CUSTOMERS].[CUST ID] = [ORDERS].[CUST ID] and [ORDERS].[ORDER_ID] = [LINE ITEMS].[ORDER_ID] and [PRODUCTS].[Product ID] = [LINE ITEMS].[PRODUCT_ID] and [CATEGORIES].[Category ID] = [PRODUCTS].[Category ID]) and NOT EXISTS(SELECT * FROM [ORDERS], [LINE ITEMS], [PRODUCTS], [CATEGORIES] WHERE ([Category Name]='Dairy') and [CUSTOMERS].[CUST ID] = [ORDERS].[CUST ID] and [ORDERS].[ORDER_ID] = [LINE ITEMS].[ORDER_ID] and [PRODUCTS].[Product ID] = [LINE ITEMS].[PRODUCT_ID] and [CATEGORIES].[Category ID] = [PRODUCTS].[Category ID])

In short, what does EasyAsk do ? (cont.)


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Building EA Dictionary for Fathom Trend DB

Basic language constructs The connection information and table map for

the database A set of definitions that EasyAsk uses to

translate “English” to SQL Each definition consists of an English word

and its database meaning• Definitions can also contain synonyms and

abbreviations

What does an EasyAsk dictionary contain ?



Flat text file with .DXP extension Initially built by EasyAsk DataWorkshop Refined during implementation

• test questions

• search tuning Used by EasyAsk Server

• web access

• dictionary is being used to interpret the language and link to the database

How is an EasyAsk dictionary used ?



Now the real fun begins!

We need to teach EasyAsk about• Fathom Trend db schema

• Data, terminology, synonyms

• Table relations, VIEWs creation

Over to the EasyAsk DataWorkshop & Server

Building the dictionary …


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Querying Fathom Trend DB from EasyAsk - demo

Querying the data


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In Summary

Fathom Trend database is not a black box or something to be afraid of• It contains useful data about your system,

database and application

EasyAsk can be used to report on your trended data without needing programming skills

Wrap up


For More Information, go to…

OpenEdge Management PSDN corner• http://

www.psdn.com/library/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=1296

EasyAsk PSDN corner• http://

www.psdn.com/library/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=665


Relevant Exchange Sessions

OPS-2: OpenEdge Management in the Real World

DEV-28: Making Business Intelligence as Easy as Web Search

OPS-21: Managing Multiple Sites Part Time: OpenEdge Replication & Management


Questions?


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OPS-15: What was Happening with My Database, AppServer ™, OS... Yesterday, Last Month, Last Year? Libor LaubacherRuanne Cluer Principal Tech Support Engineer