JConsole / JMX

[edit] See this post too [/edit]
On an OBIEE server run

nohup obiee/systemsmanagement/runagent.sh &

and then run jconsole (make sure you've set the DISPLAY first if you're running it from UNIX).
NB: if you don't have jconsole in your path you can search for it:

$whereis jconsole
jconsole: /opt/java1.5/bin/jconsole /opt/java6/bin/jconsole

You should find it under your java/bin directory

You should get this kind of connection dialog:

Click connect, and the console will launch. From here click on the MBeans tab, where you've got access to performance and configuration data


You can connect to the agent remotely too, but to do this you need to amend runagent.sh script:

On the java_cmd line replace
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote
with
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=9980 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false

See here for more information on configuring jmx



The BI Management Pack uses the agent for collecting its data. The data also looks like it's accessible at http://[server]:[port]/analytics/saw.dll?perfmon (hat-tip: John Minkjan)