SAP Landscape Management 3.0, Enterprise Edition

Validations for Hosts

This section shows the possible validations for hosts.

Validations

Validator

Validation

Description

Interval

Entity Type

Property Type

Availability of Custom Operations for Hosts CustOpResCheck Checks if all possible custom operations for this host are known to SAP Host Agent.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Availability of Custom Operations for Hosts UserExitRes Lists all new user exits on SAP Host Agent. For more information, see SAP Note 1347299 Information published on SAP site.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Check Unnecessary Clone Changes Clone Change Check Checks for currently unnecessary changes (done for cloning).
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Check Unnecessary Clone Changes CloneHnChanges Checks if changes are needed to the local host name resolution on the current host.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Check Unnecessary Clone Changes CloneFwRules Checks for unnecessary firewall rules on a host.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Custom-Specific Host Validations HACredCheck Checks the configured credentials (sapadm user/password) for the SAP Host Agent.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for Instance Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for Instance Agent Communication [seconds]
Custom-Specific Host Validations CustValRes Calls the (optional) custom operation ''validateResource'' for customer-specific host validations.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for Instance Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for Instance Agent Communication [seconds]
File System Free Space FreeSpaceCheck Checks the free space of the file systems on the host based on the total size or threshold configured.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host

Checks if the free space of the file system is above a configured threshold [percentage]

Validation file system; do not report if free space is greater than [megabytes]

List of file system types (separated by semicolons, wild cards allowed) to be excluded during validation

List of file systems (separated by semicolon, wild cards allowed) to be excluded during validation

  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
File System Free Space FreeSpaceInfo Reports the free space of all file systems which have enough free space.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host

Checks if the free space of the file system is above a configured threshold [percentage]

Validation file system; do not report if free space is greater than [megabytes]

List of file system types (separated by semicolons, wild cards allowed) to be excluded during validation

List of file systems (separated by semicolon, wild cards allowed) to be excluded during validation

  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Host Agent Credentials HACredCheck Checks the credentials provided for SAP Host Agent (such as sapadm user credentials).
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Host Agent Version StorageLibVersion Validates the version of all available storage libraries on this host.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Host Agent Version AcextVersion Validates the version of sapacext on the host.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Host Agent Version UpPrepLibs Updates the platform and storage libraries for sapacosprep. New versions are found in the new directory of SAP Host Agent.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Host Agent Version ResProvOp Checks if all custom operations needed for system and dialog instance provisioning are available. If these custom operations are not available, instances of cloned systems cannot be relocated on this host.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Host Agent Version HAVersCheck Checks the version of SAP Host Agent.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Host Name Resolution on Host HostIPLocal

Checks the host name resolution on the host against the host name resolution of the SAP Landscape Management to identify host name resolution problems.

Connection Timeout for SAP Host AgentChecks if the host name is resolved to the loopback IP address (127.0.0.1).

  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Host Name Resolution on Host HADomainCheck Checks if the host name belongs to the same domain in SAP Landscape Management as on the host.
  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Host Name Resolution on Host HNMissmatch Checks the host name resolution from SAP Landscape Management against the host name resolution of SAP Host Agent. If any problems occur, checks the host file and DNS settings of the SAP Landscape Management and SAP Host Agent OS.
  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Host Name Resolution on Host HNResolveACC Checks if SAP Landscape Management can resolve the host names.
  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Host Name Resolution on Host ResHostname Checks if the configured physical host name of the host matches the host name returned by SAP Host Agent.
  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Host Name Resolution on Host HAOldIP Checks if SAP Host Agent can return IP addresses for bound host names.
  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Host Name Resolution on Host VirtHNNodeName Checks if the virtual IP address is resolved to the physical/node name. For more information, see SAP Note 1366742 Information published on SAP site.
  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Host Status ResStatUnreach

Checks the status of a host. This is particularly useful if you want to be notified by e-mail when a host becomes unreachable or has error status.

Checks if the host is unreachable, for example if not powered on or not connected to the network.

  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host
  • None
Host Status ResStatErrSocket Checks if monitoring failed because of a socket timeout.
  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host
  • None
Host Status ResStatErrOsCol Checks if the saposcol process of SAP Host Agent is running (only applicable if the host is reachable and SAP Host Agent is running).
  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host
  • None
Host Status ResNoLogPort Checks if the host has a logical port configured in SAP Landscape Management.
  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host
  • None
Host Status ResStatErr Checks if the host has the status "error", for example because of an issue with SAP Host Agent.
  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host
  • None
Host Status ResStatErrConn Checks if the monitoring for the host failed because of a connection timeout.
  • Event-Driven Interval
  • Host
  • None
Instances not configured NotConfInst Checks for SAP instances installed on this host but not configured in SAP Landscape Management.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]

Diagnostics Agent system identifiers are separated by ; to ignore the Diagnostics Agent for the physical host.

Instances not configured NotConfDB Checks for databases installed on this host but not configured in SAP Landscape Management.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]

Diagnostics Agent system identifiers are separated by ; to ignore the Diagnostics Agent for the physical host.

SAP Landscape Management Internal Operation Check LVMIntOpMiss Checks if all internal custom operations of package SAPACEXT are available.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]

Ignored internal custom operations separated by ,

SAP Landscape Management Internal Operation Check LVMIntOpOld Checks if all internal custom operations of package SAPACEXT are up-to-date.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]

Ignored internal custom operations separated by ,

Updates host properties ResStorageProp

Checks and updates the configured host properties with the values returned by saposcol -b.

Host-specific storage properties retrieved using the storage library.

  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Updates host properties ResPropsUpdate Updates changed host properties in the database.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Updates host properties ResStoragePropUp Updates the retrieved host-specific storage properties in the SAP Landscape Management database.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Updates host properties ResExtPropsUp Updates additional host properties, such as search domains and DNS servers used. Mainly needed for host cloning.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Updates host properties ResExtPropRet Retrieves additional properties using SAP Host Agent. You must have installed the newest SAP Host Agent version and enable "ASUIOperation". For more information, see SAP Note 1550099 Information published on SAP site.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Updates host properties ResPropsRetrieve Checks the configured host properties against the configured values.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Updates host properties ResProperties Checks the configured host properties (OS type, OS version, CPU architecture) against the saposcol -b values. If changes are found, tries to update the values directly in the database.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
Updates host properties ResStoragePropRet Retrieves host-specific storage properties provided by the storage library of your DFS/SAN vendor. You have to deploy the ASUIOperation according to SAP Note 1550099 Information published on SAP site and at least SAP Host Agent 720 Patch 96.
  • Use Default Interval
  • Host
  • Connection Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]
  • Socket Timeout for SAP Host Agent Communication [seconds]