Business Objects Monitoring Probes

Hallo All,
I have been reading "The BusinessObjects Enterprise XI Release 2 Monitoring Guide" in which it mentions the monitoring probes for windows and unix operating systems. These are a set of war files and command line utilities for checking the health of a BO XI R2 Enterprise system as described in the guide. The unix version of this is contained in a file `monitoring.tar.gz` does anyone know where I can find this file ??

is this what you are talking about... find the link below
http://labs.businessobjects.com/enterprise_monitoring/default.asp
good luck
Amr

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