Enterprise Manager

Enterprise Manager Data Loader Component

The data loader automatically collects usage statistics on BI applications into a single location. The data load process collects information from the MicroStrategy Intelligence Server logs and loads it in an incremental manner to a predefined relational schema. With features such as automated error handling and user defined schedules for loading, administrators can automatically load information about BI application usage into an open relational format for analysis.

Enterprise Manager Reporting Component

MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager is bundled with a set of over 50 predefined reports that provide both summary and detailed reporting on various areas of the BI Infrastructure, such as Object Dependency Analysis, Object Property Analysis, Report Processing Analysis, Cache Management Reporting, User Session Analysis and User/Group Analysis.

Object Manager

Drag and Drop Interface with Automatic Dependency Checking

MicroStrategy Object Manager provides a simple drag and drop interface which allows developers to simply choose the various objects that they would like to move from system to system (Development to Test to Production). Once these objects have been selected for movement, an automatic dependency check is run in the background to automatically move over all related dependent objects. Thus, when a report is moved, this also moves the underlying metrics, attributes and other objects. This ensures that the new report in the destination project will always work.

Comprehensive Search and Conflict Resolution Options

Large BI projects often involve many hundreds of reports and objects that may need to be moved and managed. Object Manager provides comprehensive search features to help administrators determine which objects need to me migrated, as well as conflict resolution options in case objects that are being moved already exist in the destination project.

Project Merge Wizard Automates Movement of Objects

Many BI applications have periodic updates where changes made in development and which have been tested need to be moved into production in bulk. MicroStrategy Administrator contains the Project Merge Wizard, which allows administrators to set rules for moving objects through an XML file. The actual movement of the objects can be scheduled during off peak hours to minimize application downtime.

Command Manager

Automate Common Administrative Tasks with a Script-based Interface

MicroStrategy Command Manager allows for batching of many operations in a command line mode to manage a variety of time-based, event-based and housekeeping tasks. The script files created by Command Manager can be scheduled through commonly available operating system utilities.

Sample listing of tasks performed through Command Manager:

• Access Control: Change, read, write and other access properties for reports and folders for users and groups
• Cache Management: Clear, expire, invalidate and purge object and report caches based on a specified time or event schedule on a report or project level
• Cluster Management: Add or remove Intelligence Server machines to a cluster automatically
• Database Connection Management: Lists all active database connections and create, alter or disconnect specific database connections based on specified conditions
• Event Management: Create a new event driven schedule and trigger a specific event schedule based on certain criteria automatically
• Filter Management: Create, modify or delete filters though a script
• Job Management: Monitor and kill specific jobs created on the Intelligence Server
• Metric Management: Create, modify or delete metrics though a script
• Project Configuration: Change database instance associated with projects and other configuration parameters
• Project Management: Load, unload, idle or register a project on a schedule
• Server Management: Stop or start servers based on a schedule
• User Management: Create users, groups and manage privelages and project access associated with these users and groups; also set various authentication and authorization parameters
• Narrowcast Service Management: Trigger specific Narrowcast Servers to execute from a command line interface
• Narrowcast System Management: Stop and start specific Narrowcast Servers from a script-driven interface