The SAP Management Console (SAP MC) provides a common framework for centralized system management. It allows you to monitor and perform basic administration tasks on the SAP system centrally, which simplifies system administration.
This documentation has the latest version. It is valid for the following patch level versions of SAP Management Console (SAP MC), depending on the release of the SAP Kernel archive which contains the archive of the sapmc<version>.sar:
Kernel Release | Patch Level |
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7.20 | 417 and higher |
7.21 | 110 and higher |
7.38 | 14 and higher |
7.40 | 0 and higher |
For information about how to check the version of an existing SAP MC installation, see Getting the Latest Version of the SAP Management Console.
See SAP Note 1907683 about how to update older versions of this documentation within your local SAP Library installations.
You can check the version by choosing Version: entry contains four digits: The first digit means the kernel version, and the second digit the patch level. The remaining digits are not relevant in this respect.
from the menu bar in the UI of the SAP MC. TheUsing the SAP MC you can:
Monitor and control (start, stop, or restart) the SAP system and its instances with a single tool
Display SAP log and trace files, start profiles, instance parameters, the system environment, SAP environment, Internet Communication Manager (ICM) queue statistics, and so on
Display and control Java processes
Display the ABAP work process overview and control ABAP processes
Monitor system alerts
Display the current status tree
Display the list of all access points to an SAP system
Display information about the AS Java threads, sessions, caches, aliases, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) sessions, and remote objects
Display Java Virtual Machine garbage collection and heap memory information for the application server
Save the current console configuration in a file to reuse it later or to forward it to other users
Start third-party tools (such as Telnet), if available, to manage an application server
The SAP MC is a Java applet that can be run from any Web browser supporting Java. You can therefore administer remote systems without needing a local installation.
We recommend that you always use the most current version of the SAP Management Console, otherwise certain features described in this documentation might not be available (see Getting the Latest Version of the SAP Management Console).
To start the SAP MC, see Starting the SAP Management Console.
You can perform the following administration tasks using the SAP MC:
Starting Systems and Instances with the SAP Management Console
Stopping Systems and Instances with the SAP Management Console
Registering Systems and Instances in the SAP Management Console
Viewing and Configuring the Communication Ports using the SAP Management Console
Monitoring the Application Server with the SAP Management Console
Launching Deployed Applications from the SAP Management Console