Creating and Changing Monitoring Properties Variants 

Use

A monitoring properties variant is a collection of settings for one or more MTEs in the alert monitor.

When you activate a properties variant, the changes that are saved in it can be actively used in the alert monitor.

You can define multiple properties variants. Each can have different settings for the same MTEs or MTE classes. Properties variants can also be transported. These qualities mean that you can use properties variants to define "monitoring policies".

If you make changes to an MTE from the alert monitor, then your changes are automatically stored in the properties variant that is currently active.

If you call the Customizing transaction directly (Transaction RZ21), then you can make changes to any properties variant that you wish.

Procedures

Creating a Variant and Storing Customizing Settings in It

  1. Start the Customizing transaction directly by choosing CCMS ® Configuration ® Alert monitor. Alternatively, call Transaction RZ21.
  1. To create a monitoring properties variant, choose Properties ® V ariants ® Create. Enter a name and description for the variant and specify the parent properties variant whose values should be used if the variant you are currently defining does not have specific values for that MTE class.

You can also specify the name of a manufacturer of a system management program that provides an agent for logging onto the R/3 System and making use of the CCMS system management interfaces.

  1. Choose Save and the system returns you to the initial screen of Transaction RZ21.

You must now assign objects (that is, MTE classes, attribute groups, or individual MTEs from the monitoring tree) to your new monitoring properties variant. You should assign all objects that should share a "monitoring policy" to your variant.

  1. In the Properties frame of Transaction RZ21, select an object type and choose Display overview to view the list of objects.
  1. Select the objects that you want to include in the properties variant and choose List ® Selected entries ® Copy to variants.
  2. The system displays a dialog box in which you should choose the properties variant to which the object settings should be copied.
  3. If you now want to modify the settings for this object, choose Change and then Display « Change. The changes are stored in the properties variant to which you have assigned the object. Your changes become effective when you activate the variant (as described below).

Making Changes to the Active Properties Variant

  1. Choose CCMS ® Control/Monitoring ® Alert monitor. Alternatively, call Transaction RZ20.
  2. Expand the monitor set that contains the monitor you require and choose Monitor (set) ® Load monitor.
  3. To change the monitor, choose Extras ® Activate maintenance functions and mark the MTE whose Customizing you wish to change.
  4. Choose Properties and then Display « Change.
  5. Confirm the dialog box and make the necessary changes. When you save the changes, they are automatically stored in the properties variant that is currently active in the alert monitor. The Customizing transaction shows which variant is active.

Activating a Variant

  1. Start the Customizing transaction by choosing CCMS ® Configuration ® Alert monitor. Alternatively, call Transaction RZ21
  2. Choose Properties ® Variants ® Activate.
  3. The system displays a dialog box in which you should choose the properties variant that you wish to activate.

The settings in the properties variant become active in the alert monitor immediately. You do not have to set specific values for each individual MTE class in your variant. If you do not specify your own values for a specific MTE class, the R/3 System automatically uses the customer preset values (the properties variant " Q ") or the SAP-DEFAULT values.

 

The changes only affect the R/3 System in which the properties variant is activated. Each of the systems that you include in an alert monitor has its own Customizing settings.

See also:

 

Copying Properties Variants

SAP-DEFAULT

Assigning Methods to MTE Classes and Monitoring Properties Variants