SAP Microsoft Management Console: Windows 
The SAP Microsoft Management Console (SAP MMC) provides a common framework for system management. It integrates previously separate tools in a common user interface for centralized system management. Although the SAP MMC itself does not offer any management functionality, it provides an environment for incorporating and accessing management tools. Tools are integrated in the SAP MMC with snap-ins for standardized access to functions.
SAP has developed the SAP Systems Manager snap-in let you monitor, start or stop the SAP system centrally from the SAP MMC. SAP recommends you to use the SAP MMC because it simplifies system administration and provides many new features.
You can use the SAP MMC for both ABAP and Java systems. If you use a Java system you can ignore references to ABAP. If you use an ABAP system you can ignore references to Java.
Features
The SAP MMC offers the following features:
You can monitor and control any number of SAP systems and application servers and ITS instances with a single tool if they are running on Windows. As of SAP NetWeaver 7.0, you can also monitor SAP instances running on different platforms.
Once you have configured the console, you can save the configuration in a file and easily forward it to other users.
The dual DCOM interface ISAPControl of the start service and IITSWatchdog of the ITS watchdog service let a third party use the functionality - for example from C, Java or Visual Basic - and let you integrate it into your own tools or scripts without having to use proprietary SAP mechanisms.
The start service is available on all platforms and offers a new Web service interface, called SAPControl with better control and monitor capabilities. Some of the new snap-in features require the new Web service interface. You can access the Web service interface in your own applications from a Web service-enabled programming environment like C, Java, ABAP or .NET. The old ISAPControl DCOM interface has become obsolete but is still supported under Windows.
The SAP MMC lets you to:
Display all SAP trace files, start profile, instance parameters, the system environment and SAP environment
Display the most serious alerts in the alert tree (ABAP transaction RZ20)
Display the current status tree (ABAP transaction RZ20)
Display and acknowledge current alerts (ABAP transaction RZ20)
Display the SAP syslog for a functioning, offline, or malfunctioning SAP system (ABAP transaction SM21)
Display the ABAP work process overview (ABAP transaction SM50)
Display the ABAP and ICM queue statistics (dpmon)
Display Application Server Java (AS Java) processes, caches, threads, web sessions, EJB sessions, remote objects, application aliases, and shared memory tables
Display Java virtual machine garbage collection and heap memory information of the Application Server Java
Display ICM threads, connections, caches and proxy connections
Start or stop one or all application servers of a system with a mouse-click
Restart the service without having to restart the application server
Log on to an application server
Start analysis tools in the SAP system for nodes in the alert tree
Control Java or ABAP processes
Modify dynamic profile parameters
Remove enqueue locks manually
Create compressed instance or system snapshots for offline problem analysis and problem reporting
Start the following third-party tools, if available, to manage an application server or ITS instance:
Telnet
SSH client
Windows Terminal Server Client
pcANYWHERE
Computer Management snap-in
More Information
Layout of the SAP Systems Manager Snap-In
Context Menu of the SAP Systems Manager Snap-In
Changing the Configuration of the MMC
Configuring SAP MMC for Active Directory Services
Configuring MMC for SAP System Landscape Directory
SAP MMC Enhancements for Active Directory Services