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Use

The DBA Cockpit is part of every SAP NetWeaver-based system. You can run the DBA Cockpit locally on an SAP NetWeaver-based system by calling theDBACOCKPIT transaction. Alternatively, you can run the DBA Cockpit on your SAP Solution Manager system, where you can access all databases in your system landscape using remote connections. If you use the DBA Cockpit as part of the SAP Solution Manager system, this allows you to update and administrate all databases from a central system rather than logging on to each individual system separately.

DBA Cockpit on a Local SAP System

DBA Cockpit on an SAP Solution Manager System

SAP Solution Manager is the free SAP toolset in your system landscape to monitor the full stack of an SAP system: from the operating system up to the business process. SAP Solution Manager is typically installed on a separate system, where it provides central access to tools, methods, and preconfigured contents that you can use during the evaluation, implementation, and operations of your systems. For database administrators, SAP Solution Manager offers a range of tools for root cause analysis, alerting, and reporting.

The tools of the DBA Cockpit complement the available SAP Solution Manager tools, which provide high-level overviews of possible database issues, including reporting and alerting functions. In addition to the high-level overviews of SAP Solution Manager, the DBA Cockpit serves as an in-depth analysis tool for database-related issues.

Available Database Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager and the DBA Cockpit

The DBA Cockpit not only provides more tools for the expert database administrator, but it also plays an important part in the SAP Solution Manager infrastructure. The remote database monitoring infrastructure of the DBA Cockpit is used by SAP Solution Manager to extract metrics from remote databases. These metrics are then passed on to the different applications in SAP Solution Manager.

The DBA Cockpit as Metrics Provider for SAP Solution Manager