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Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

By : Dmitry Anoshin, Himani Rana, Ning Ma, Neil Mehta
Book Image

Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

By: Dmitry Anoshin, Himani Rana, Ning Ma, Neil Mehta

Overview of this book

Business intelligence is becoming more important by the day, with cloud offerings and mobile devices gaining wider acceptance and achieving better market penetration. MicroStrategy Reporting Suite is an absolute leader in the BI market and offers rich capabilities from basic data visualizations to predictive analytics. It lets you various delivery methods such as the Web, desktops, and mobiles. Using real-world BI scenarios, this book helps you to implement Business Analytics solutions in big e-commerce companies. It kicks off with MicroStrategy 10 features and then covers schema design models and techniques. Building upon your existing knowledge, the book will teach you advanced techniques for building documents and dashboards. It further teaches various graphical techniques for presenting data for analysis using maps, graphs, and advanced charts. Although MicroStrategy has rich functionality, the book will show how to customize it in order to meet your business requirements. You will also become familiar with the native analytical functions that will help you to maximize the impact of BI solutions with powerful predictive analytics. Furthermore, the book will focus on MicroStrategy Mobile Analytics along with data discovery and desktop capabilities such as connecting various data sources and building interactive dashboards. The book will also uncover best practices, troubleshooting techniques for MicroStrategy system administration, and also security and authentication techniques. Lastly, you will learn to use Hadoop for MicroStrategy reporting. By the end of the book, you will become proficient in evaluating any BI software in order to choose the best one that meets all business requirements.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Discovering MicroStrategy logs


MicroStrategy components generate tons of logs about low-level activity such as memory use, service information, errors, and so on. One of the most valuable logs is DSSErrors.log. If MicroStrategy has any problems, it is good practice to start from this log and look at the information. You can find it using this command:

# cd /root/mstr10/microstrategy_logs

If we open the log file, we can see rows of data and search information about particular issues:

For example, let's imagine that the MicroStrategy server was shut down. In order to understand why it happened, we should open DSSErrors.log and look to see what the problem is. It will be in the last couple of rows.

How the DSSErrors file works

There are two files, as shown in the following screenshot:

The default size of DSSErrors.log is 2048 KB. When it becomes more than 2048 KB, MicroStrategy renames it DSSErrors.log.bak and creates a new DSSErrors.log file.

It is possible to change the destination of the...