Configuring SharePoint Products and Technologies for Monitoring Server

Updated: 2009-04-09

When installing the Dashboard Viewer for SharePoint Services component on a computer that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, ensure that the following requirements are met:

• The SharePoint site collection that will be used for installing this component has at least one document library available for use with PerformancePoint Monitoring.

• The administrator installing this component is a site collection administrator on the selected SharePoint site collection. If the user installing this component is not a site collection administrator, the installation of this component fails because access is denied. By default, neither members of the SharePoint Farm Administrators group nor members of the Administrators group on the local server computer are site collection administrators. They must specifically take ownership of a site collection by adding themselves as site collection administrators. You can specify site collection administrators for a particular SharePoint site collection in either of the following two ways:

  • By using the Site Collection Administrators page on the SharePoint Central Administration Web site. (In Central Administration, click Application Management, and then in the SharePoint Site Management section, click Site collection administrators.)

  • By using the Site Actions menu on the top-level site. (On the Site Actions menu, point to Site Settings, click Modify All Site Settings, and then in the Users and Permissions section, click Site collection administrators.)

• In the configuration manager, the Dashboard Viewer for SharePoint Services component can only be installed on a single SharePoint site collection. If you want other site collections on the computer that runs SharePoint Products and Technologies to access the SharePoint Web Part, you must manually change the Web.config file of each of the site collections. These manual changes are not recommended or supported. We will add support for the ability to install to multiple site collections in a future release.

• To install the Dashboard Viewer for SharePoint Services on a SharePoint Products and Technologies farm, you must install the Dashboard Viewer for SharePoint Services component on each computer in the farm.

• The application pool identity account of the SharePoint site collection can access the Monitoring System Database to render the dashboards. If the application pool of the SharePoint site collection is running as Network Service, you can perform either of the following actions:

  • Change the application pool identity account of the SharePoint site to a domain user account, which is more secure.

  • Select a different SharePoint site that has the application pool identity already configured to use a domain user account.

  If you do not want to perform either of the previously listed actions to enable the Dashboard Viewer for SharePoint Services component to render scorecards, you must grant the computer account of the computer running SharePoint Products and Technologies access to the Monitoring System Database by adding the computer account to the BPMDeveloper database role.

  During setup, the Monitoring Server Configuration Manager prompts you if the SharePoint application pool is detected to be running under a built-in account and the Monitoring System Database is on a remote computer. You can select one of the following options:

  • Have the Monitoring Server Configuration Manager configure the computer account automatically.

  • Manually grant permissions and role membership after the Monitoring Server Configuration Manager completes configuration.

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