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Analyzing System and Application Logs |
Lifecycle Management |
Registering to System Landscape Directory |
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Analyzing System and Application Logs |
Lifecycle Management |
Registering to System Landscape Directory |
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The SAP Solution Manager is supplied with all SAP systems starting from the Web Application Server (WAS) 6.10. It is meant to become the central monitoring software for SAP systems, but also for external applications. This should provide for the centralization of all services within a SAP environment.
With the SAP agent, AE integrates the entire enterprise-wide process management in the SAP Solution Manager.
The essential functionality of the SAP Solution Manager is centralized monitoring. The monitoring part again distinguishes two main areas:
While the first one primarily deals with technical processes and system status, the area of business Process Monitoring helps to design and monitor logical business processes in and around SAP systems.
In the area of operations monitoring the SAP Solution Manager uses the existing monitoring infrastructure within the CCMS (Computing Center Management Systems). The states of systems and processes are displayed in a tree structure.
So far these monitors have been limited to SAP systems. Now SAP provides interfaces for external applications for reporting status data to the Solution Manager and for displaying them in the monitoring tree.
The SAP agent uses such an interface in order to access the monitor structure in the CCMS. It uses a Connection object for ABAP Basis. Several script elements can be used to create and modify attributes or delete nodes:
| Script Element | Description |
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| R3_DELETE_NODE | Deletes a node |
| R3_SET_LOG_ATTR | Sets a log attribute |
| R3_SET_PERF_ATTR | Sets a performance attribute |
| R3_SET_STATUS_ATTR | Sets a status attribute |
| R3_SET_TEXT_ATTR | Sets a text attribute |
The Form tab of SAP jobs can be used to access nodes. A separate browser displays the monitor "All Monitoring Contexts" of the monitor set "SAP CCMS Technical Expert Monitors". The node colors represent the current alarm status.
Business processes are based on individual IT processes and systems. Interdependencies can be defined and graphically represented with the SAP Solution Manager. All data which is available in operations monitoring can be used to model business processes.
AE centrally controls processes on all of an enterprise's systems and applications. The integration of AE in the SAP Solution Manager provides the opportunity to represent and monitor enterprise-wide business processes in a SAP system.
If an error occurs in a business process, the reason can be found immediately. The time for troubleshooting is minimized, the business process can be restarted as quickly as possible.
The Solution Manager will also be able to manage background processes. Currently, this function is available using the transactions SM36 and SM37.
AE comprehensively supports this function. AE centrally manages and monitors the entire SAP background processing. AE also combines these SAP processes with processes of all the enterprise's other systems and applications.