SAP Microsoft Management
Console: Windows
Use
The SAP Microsoft Management Console (SAP MMC) provides a common framework for system management. It allows various tools that were previously implemented separately to be integrated in a common user-interface enabling centralized system management. The SAP MMC itself does not offer any management functionality, however it provides an environment for incorporating and accessing tools. Tools are integrated in the SAP MMC in the form of snap-ins that allow standardized access to functions.
SAP has developed the SAP Systems Manager snap-in which allows you to monitor, start or stop the SAP system centrally from the SAP MMC. SAP recommends to use the SAP MMC because it simplifies system administration and provides many new features.
Features
The SAP MMC offers the following features:
· You can monitor and control any number of SAP systems and application servers and ITS instances with a single tool as long as they are running under Windows. With SAP NetWeaver 7.0 and higher, you can also monitor SAP instances running on different platforms.
· Once you have configured the console, you can save the configuration in a file and easily forward it to other users.
· The dual DCOM interface ISAPControl of the start service and IITSWatchdog of the ITS watchdog service let a third party use the functionality, for example, from C, Java or Visual Basic, and let you integrate it into your own tools or scripts without having to use SAP proprietary mechanisms.
· With SAP NetWeaver 7.0 and higher, the start service is available on all platforms and offer a new Web service interface, called SAPControl that allows better control and monitor capabilities. Some of the new snap-in features require the new Web service interface. You can access the Web service interface in your own applications from a Web service-enabled programming environment like C, Java, ABAP or .NET. The old ISAPControl DCOM interface has become obsolete but is still supported under Windows.
· The SAP MMC allows you to:
¡ Display all SAP trace files, start profile, instance parameters, the system environment and SAP environment
¡ Display the most serious alerts in the alert tree (Transaction RZ20)
¡ Display the current status tree (Transaction RZ20)
¡ Display and acknowledge current alerts (Transaction RZ20)
¡ Display the SAP syslog for a functioning, offline or malfunctioning SAP system (Transaction SM21)
¡ Display the ABAP work process overview (Transaction SM50)
¡ Display the ABAP and ICM queue statistics (dpmon)
¡
Monitor and
administrate the ICM (prerequisite: you have an
administration
user)
¡ Display Java processes
¡ Start or stop a chosen application server or all application servers of a SAP system with a single mouse-click.
¡ Restart the service without having to restart the application server
¡ Log on to an application server
¡ Start analysis tools in the SAP system for nodes in the alert tree
¡ Control Java or ABAP processes
¡ Start the following third-party tools, if available, to manage an application server:
§ Telnet
§ Windows Terminal Server Client
§ pcANYWHERE
§ Computer Management snap-in (only for Windows 2000 and higher)
See also:
Layout of the SAP Systems Manager Snap-In
Context Menu of the SAP Systems Manager Snap-In
Changing the Configuration of the SAP MMC
Configuring SAP MMC for Active Directory Services