App: Several Metrics for a Managed Object

The E2E Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure (MAI) displays the performance and status of managed objects in complex, heterogeneous landscapes, centrally, in the System & Application Monitoring work center. There are various monitoring use cases, including System Monitoring, which monitors the status and performance of technical systems, technical instances, hosts and databases, in the SAP Solution Manager system landscape.

The work center for experts displays a lot of managed system metrics, events and alerts. This is sometime a little unclear, particularly if you initially only need a few metrics and events.

There is an app for this dashboard, which displays several metrics or events for a managed object, such as the status of the CPU or file systems, or paging on a host.

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As the display and configuration of metrics and events are nearly identical in this app, they are both referred to as elements here, where information applies to both metrics and events.

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There are selectable elements for the following topics in this app :

Available space in the file system for various database types
Availability of technical instances, technical systems, and databases
CPU usage, memory space, file system and paging rate for hosts
Response times, status and usage of dialog system, for technical systems and instances
Status, usage and errors in background processing for technical systems
ABAP run-time error status
Number of users logged on, per system and instance

All elements delivered by SAP which you can display in this app are from System Monitoring, and are one of the following types of managed objects:

Technical system
Technical instance
Host
Database

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You can extend the set of selectable elements (see Extend Set of Selectable Metrics) beyond System Monitoring.

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You can display up to nine elements for a managed object in the app. Make the selection in the configuration app (see Configure App: Several Metrics for a Managed Object).

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There is also an analogous app, with which you can display up to nine managed objects for a selected element (see App: One metric for several managed objects).

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The app displays the name and type of the managed object above a table of the selected elements. The following information is displayed:

Column	Meaning
Metric/Event	Name of the metric or event
Rating/Value	For a metric, its value and status, as provided by MAI, are displayed. Depending on the threshold settings of the metric, this can be a mean value or a rating. You can display this setting in the SAP Solution Manager Configuration (transaction `SOLMAN_SETUP`), under System & Application Monitoring System Monitoring Template Management , by selecting a template and, in the Metrics tab, choosing the Threshold Values tab. For an event, only the status (red, yellow or green) and the text Rating Only are displayed, because an event has no value.
Information	Choose the blue icon with the white `i` to get a detailed description of the element.

Column

Meaning

Metric/Event

Name of the metric or event

Rating/Value

For a metric, its value and status, as provided by MAI, are displayed. Depending on the threshold settings of the metric, this can be a mean value or a rating.

You can display this setting in the SAP Solution Manager Configuration (transaction SOLMAN_SETUP), under Start of the navigation path System & Application Monitoring Next navigation step System Monitoring Template Management End of the navigation path , by selecting a template and, in the Metrics tab, choosing the Threshold Values tab.

For an event, only the status (red, yellow or green) and the text Rating Only are displayed, because an event has no value.

Information

Choose the blue icon with the white i to get a detailed description of the element.

To display the history of the element, choose its row in the app. The Metric Monitor is called.

Integration

To display the app, add it to your personal dashboard, in two steps

Add personal dashboard to your SAP Easy Access Favorites

In the SAP Easy Access menu, call Favorites Add Other Objects .
From the list in the Restrictions screen, choose Web-Dynpro Applications.
On the Web Dynpro Application screen, in the Web Dynpro Application field, enter the name generic_dashboard_viewer.
Enter a description, for example My Dashboard.
Insert a row in the table Parameters, in the Name column, enter ALIAS, and enter PERSONAL_DASHBOARD in the Value column.

Put the app in your personal dashboard

Call your personal dashboard in the SAP Easy Access menu (see above).
To put the app in the dashboard, go to configuration mode by choosing Configure.
Choose Add New App, in the Monitoring & Alerting Infrastructure category, choose the app Several Metrics for One MO, and choose OK.
The configuration mode of the app is called; make the required configuration settings (see Configure App: Several Metrics for One Managed Object).
Your changes are only permanently saved when you choose Save Dashboard.

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You can display several instances of this app, to display selected elements for several managed objects.

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