Remote Client
Use
The Remote Client is available for monitoring and administration of your PCo systems in production. The Remote Client is a snap-in of the Microsoft Management Console (MMC 3.0), which is provided by SAP together with the SAP Plant Connectivity component. With the Remote Client, you can monitor all PCo systems with their individual agent instances at a glance as well as start and stop the agent instances.
Monitoring the PCo systems makes sense in particular if you are using the notification process.
In addition to monitoring using the Remote Client, you can use active monitoring in connection with SAP MII.
Prerequisites
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You have installed the Remote Client together with PCo.
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You ensure that the main service is started and that the management services are activated. To make settings for the main service, choose
Tools 
Options Global Settings Main Service
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If necessary, you perform an SLD registration in the PCo Management Console. This is only necessary, however, if you want to adopt the PCo systems in the Remote Client using the Use System Landscape Directory (SLD) function. (See also: Registering PCo in the SLD.)
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In the authorization management of the PCo system on which the Remote Client is executed, you have enabled the appropriate access for the Remote Client. You can find the relevant settings in the menu under
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On the PCo system that is to be accessed using the Remote Client, appropriate access to the management services must be allowed in authorization management. (See also: Authorization Management.)
Features
Call the Remote Client
The Remote Client is an external PCo component. Therefore, you call the Remote Client by choosing Start Programs SAP Plant Connectivity Remote Client.
Set the Properties of the Remote Client
In the Remote Client, click on SAP Plant Connectivity Systems and call up the context menu. Choose the Properties entry. The Plant Connectivity Remote Client Properties dialog box appears.
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Field |
Description |
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Connection Refresh Period (Sec) |
Specifies how often you want the connection to the monitored PCo system to be checked. If 60 seconds has been specified, a check is made every 60 seconds to see if the PCo system is running. |
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Connection Check Timeout |
If 60 seconds has been specified, and there has been no response from the monitored PCo system for 60 seconds, the connection to this PCo system is terminated. |
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Log Level |
Here you can set the level of detail for the log, for example, verbose, error. |
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Selection Period (Days) |
Specifies in which past period the logs of the agent instances are to be exported. |
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Allow Import of Manually Changed Configurations |
You set this indicator if you want to send manually changed configuration files to a PCo system by means of the Remote Client. The destination PCo system must have at least the release status 15.0 or 2.304 (PCo 2.3 with Support Package 4). |
Add PCo System
In the Remote Client, using the context menu, you can add the PCo systems that you want to monitor. You can choose from the following approaches:
After you have added the PCo systems to be monitored in the Remote Client, you can check the state of these PCo systems with all agent instances.
Monitoring PCo Systems
The Remote Client displays a list of all installed PCo machines. For each PCo system, you can display the agent instances that you have created. The system status of the PCo systems is displayed in different colors:
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Gray: Not accessible
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Green: Accessible
The system status of the agent instances is also displayed:
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Green: Agent instance running
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Red: Agent instance faulty
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Gray: Agent instance stopped
In the Remote Client you can start, stop, or restart an agent instance without being logged on to the affected PCo system, by selecting the agent instance in the Remote Client and choosing the right-hand mouse button.
Active Monitoring (with SAP MII)
The Active Monitor component, which you can select during the PCo installation, supports you in monitoring agent instances during productive operation. The agent instances are monitored automatically, so that outages of communication connections are reported immediately and actively. In active monitoring, you receive an e-mail from SAP MII if a PCo instance cannot be reached or an agent instance changes its status to Error. Such a change in status always occurs if the agent loses its connection to the data source, for example.
You also need a configured SAP MII transaction for active monitoring. An administrator can configure a warning that is sent to the SAP MII transaction if the PCo system cannot be reached from the Remote Client or if the agent instance runs with errors. In this case, the corresponding MII transaction can be configured to send an e-mail.
Active monitoring checks every 60 seconds whether the agent instances are running or whether they are faulty or cannot be reached. If an agent instance cannot be reached, this is an emergency situation and SAP MII sends an appropriate e-mail.
To activate active monitoring in connection with SAP MII, proceed as follows:
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In SAP MII, you create a transaction and define an e-mail that is to be sent if the PCo system to be monitored can no longer be reached.
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In the Remote Client, you select the PCo system for which you want to enable active monitoring and choose Enable Active Monitoring from the context menu (right mouse button).
The SAP MII Alert Configuration dialog box appears. You enter the following data:
Field
Description
Server Name
Name of the MII server
Port
Port of the MII server
Use Secure Sockets
You can select this checkbox to set up a secure connection to MII.
Version
Choose the version of the SAP MII system with which you want to connect.
User Name and Password
User name and password with which you log on to the MII system
Transaction Name
Name of the MII transaction that you created previously in SAP MII.
If you have set up a connection to SAP MII, the transactions defined previously are displayed in the Transaction Details area. Click on the transaction you want. The transaction name then appears in the Transaction Name field.
Name of the Input Parameter
Name of the input parameter of the selected transaction
When the MII transaction is selected, this field is supplied with the parameters of the selected transaction. The transaction parameters are shown in this field.
Select the input parameter.
Active Monitoring (with Standard Windows Operating System Functions)
In this form of active monitoring, you are actively informed when certain events occur when agent instances are executed. The notification that you want can be configured using the standard Windows operating system functions. For more information, see the SAP Note: 2869474 
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