Monitoring Server deployment topology
Updated: 2009-04-09
The following figure illustrates the PerformancePoint Monitoring components working together — Monitoring Server, Monitoring System Database, Dashboard Designer, and Dashboard Viewer for SharePoint Services — as part of the dashboard life cycle.
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The computer running Monitoring Server contains a single Web site. Dashboard Designer is launched from the Monitoring Central Web site. Dashboard Designer communicates to Monitoring Server to save and retrieve the dashboard to the Monitoring System Database. Dashboard Designer can deploy the dashboard to the Dashboard Web Preview Web site on Monitoring Server to preview the dashboard. Dashboard Designer can deploy the dashboard to the server running SharePoint Products and Technologies with the Dashboard Viewer for SharePoint Services installed. After the dashboard is deployed to the server running SharePoint Products and Technologies, the dashboard can be viewed.
When viewing the dashboard through the Dashboard Viewer for SharePoint Services, the user browses to the SharePoint site, clicks the dashboard document, and the dashboard starts to render. The Dashboard Viewer for SharePoint Services connects to the Monitoring System Database, reads the dashboard definitions that were published to the database, and then renders the dashboard. The data in the views is obtained by the Dashboard Viewer for SharePoint Services connecting to the data source, gathering the data and rendering the view. Note that Monitoring Server is not involved in this process. After the dashboard is published to the database and deployed to the server running SharePoint Products and Technologies, Monitoring Server is not needed to render the dashboard.
When viewing the dashboard, users can export to Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.
Note
When building the dashboard in Dashboard Designer, you can deploy a scorecard to Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. To make this feature available, SQL Server Reporting Services, Monitoring Server, and the Scorecard Viewer for Reporting Services must be installed on one computer. Monitoring Server running with SQL Server Reporting Services can be a different installation pointing to the same Monitoring System Database. This is not depicted in the illustration.
Note
Either Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services must be installed in order to successfully install and use Monitoring Server. The terms Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Services are used collectively in PerformancePoint Server documentation to refer to Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
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