Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure

Monitoring is an essential task in the management of SAP technology - performant and automated monitoring helps ensure reliable operations in your SAP system environment. SAP provides you with the infrastructure and recommendations to set up your alert monitoring, to recognize critical situations for in you system landscape as quickly as possible.

With SAP Solution Manager 7.1, SAP has introduced the end-to-end Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure (MAI), which allows stable and reliable operation of complex heterogeneous system landscapes. In SAP Focused Run, configuration, scalability and performance of the MAI was optimized especially for monitoring large system landscapes. This changes include:

• For the storage of the metrics the new SAP HANA based Unified Data Model is used: in the reporting layer SAP Business Warehouse is replaced by SAP HANA, meaning that the data for monitoring and reporting is stored only once. This increases the data throughput and decreases the data footprint and the database load significantly.

• Only push-based communication will be used for the transport of metric data from the managed objects to the managing system.

• The possible number of managed systems handled by the MAI has been increased drastically.

• In Placeholder Maintenance placeholders of type Expression are introduced to provide logical expressions based on the existing placeholder types, making configuration of data collectors more powerful, efficient und simple.