Explorer (Polestar) Indexing status of univers

Hi guys
I have a question I hope you guys can help me with.
One of our BOBJ consultants have asked me if there is a way to monitor the Indexing status of the universes in Explorer (Polestar)
I'm not too familiar with the process flow or monitoring of this product. I have tried to find some information on the subject with no luck.
As he explains the indexing routine, the data is dropped from the univers and then replaced/imported again from the BW client. In the indexing/univers overview he showed me where he can see if the last indexing ran successfully or not.
Is there any way to trigger an alarm via CCMS, mail or in some outher way catch if a index run fails?
Br
Jesper Toft Christensen

Not currently, I looked via QueryBuilder to see if there was something you could look at but Explorer infospaces don't keep any instances so there was nothign there. I think it might be added in the future as Explorer/Polestar is relatively new I think they concentrate on rounding out the product before adding things like monitoring.
-Dave

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