Distributed installation

Updated: 2009-04-30

These are the components in the PerformancePoint Monitoring Server distributed topology.

1. PerformancePoint Monitoring System Database. This database stores the definitions of the dashboard elements and the definition of the dashboard itself. Dashboard Designer, using the PerformancePoint Monitoring Server Web Service, adds all definitions to the database. Dashboard Viewer for SharePoint Services reads this database to display the dashboards to end users.

2. PerformancePoint Monitoring Server, which has three components:

   1. PerformancePoint Monitoring Server Web Service. This is a Web service that PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer uses to build dashboards and to store the definitions in the Monitoring System Database.

   2. PerformancePoint Dashboard Web Preview. This is an Internet Information Services (IIS) Web site that is used for rendering dashboards for preview and development scenarios. This preview site can reside on one or more Windows Server computers.

   3. Monitoring Central. This is an IIS Web site used to distribute Dashboard Designer, which can also reside on one or more Windows Server 2003 computers.

3. Dashboard Viewer for SharePoint Services. This is a Web Part that is used to render and display dashboards. This Web Part includes Web services from the Monitoring Server Web Service and rendering capabilities.

The following diagram illustrates a distributed Monitoring Server deployment, in which the server components are installed on separate computers.

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