Getting Involved 

You can use the CCMS monitoring infrastructure to centrally monitor any IT environments (see Concept of the Monitoring Architecture). The concept is to make all required information available in a central monitoring system; this system is referred to here as CEN.

Problems are displayed in the alert monitor of CEN as soon as they occur; all log files are also accessible from a central location, which reduces the time for error identification and correction. Additional configuration steps allow advanced technologies such as automatic notifications, meaning that administrators no longer need to actively investigate systems for alerts.

Development Possibilities

In principle, you can extend the possibilities of the monitoring infrastructure with your own developments at two points:

●     Reporting monitoring data to the monitoring infrastructure, such as instrumenting additional components

●     Reading monitoring infrastructure monitoring data, for example, to display the data in your own display tool

Reporting Data to the Monitoring Infrastructure

●     To instrument an ABAP component for display in the Alert Monitor, develop a corresponding Data Supplier. In this way, you can report any data ( Performance Attributes, Status Attributes, and Log Attributes in any tree structure of the monitoring infrastructure.

For information about this topic, see Creating a Data Supplier for the CCMS Alert Monitor.

●     In the case of smaller projects, you can also create the desired attributes using XML documents that are transferred using an HTTP client of the monitoring infrastructure. The certifiable interface BC-XMW is available for this purpose.

If you are using both methods, you should also create rule-based monitors, so that the reported monitoring data can be clearly displayed in the Alert Monitor.

●     The Generic Request and Message Generator (GRMG) is also available to monitor the availability of components or business processes. You can instrument your own components for monitoring with GRMG. Scenarios with different software components (especially if there are no active data suppliers available for these components) and Web-based business scenarios are typical examples of applications that you can usefully monitor with the GRMG (see GRMG: Instrumenting an Application).

Reading Monitoring Infrastructure Data

You can use the certifiable interface BC-XAL to read monitoring architecture data for additional processing. You can read both values of the various attributes and alerts. On the SAP side, the interface consists of a collection of function modules that external programs can call by RFC (Remote Function Call).

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For precise information about the possibilities described here, see Reference.