SAP-DEFAULT 

Definition

SAP-DEFAULT is a monitoring properties variant that contains SAP's default values for properties (alert thresholds, for example) of all the MTEs in the monitoring hierarchy (monitoring contexts, objects and attributes in the tree display in Transaction RZ20).

Use

You can use SAP-DEFAULT as a template for creating your own properties variants for specific MTEs in your system. You cannot delete or change the values contained in SAP-DEFAULT, although you can copy either the whole variant or specific values in it to a separate properties variant, and then make changes to this copy.

A properties variant hierarchy exists in the monitoring architecture, with the values contained in SAP-DEFAULT at the bottom level. MTE values that have been changed by customers and stored in an active properties variant are at the top of the hierarchy. From Release 4.6A there is an additional layer in this hierarchy. When you create a new monitoring properties variant, you can specify a "parent" properties variant, whose values should be used if the customer-defined properties variant does not contain values for an MTE class. If, in turn, this properties variant does not contain values for that MTE class, then the system uses the values contained in the SAP-DEFAULT properties variant.

The advantage of the SAP-DEFAULT properties variant is that you do not have to set specific values for each individual MTE in your properties variant(s). If you do not specify your own values for a specific MTE, then the SAP-DEFAULT values will apply.

At a Release upgrade, user-defined properties variants are unaffected by any new SAP-DEFAULT values that are imported into the R/3 System. This means that both the latest default values proposed by SAP and the user's own settings are present in the system. In this way, SAP-DEFAULT can be used as a fallback if you accidentally change the values provided by SAP in the R/3 System, as well as a reference to the values that SAP recommends you should use.

See also:

Creating a New SAP-DEFAULT Variant

Monitoring Properties Variants