What is Predefined in the Alert Monitor? (SAP Library

What is Predefined in the Alert Monitor?

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The alert monitor is designed to be ready to use the first time that you start your R/3 System. There should be no need to do any extensive Customizing or preparation of the monitor before you start using it.

Exception: If you want to monitor multiple R/3 Systems, you will have to set this up yourself. The alert monitor cannot be predefined for monitoring multiple R/3 Systems.

The following is standard and predefined in the alert monitor:

Monitoring functionality. All monitoring functionality that is available in this Release of the R/3 System is automatically available in the alert monitor. You do not have to do anything to ensure that all available monitoring functionality is active in the alert monitor.

When you start the R/3 System, the basic set of monitoring objects and attributes (monitoring functionality) is automatically added to the alert monitor. This basic set includes monitoring functionality for critical R/3 functions, for your host servers, and for the R/3 database system. Additional basic functionality will be added to the alert monitor with each R/3 Release.

R/3 applications and other R/3 components dynamically add their own monitoring objects and attributes to the alert monitor as they are used.

Method definitions, method assignments, and MTE class assignments. All of the methods (data collection methods, analysis methods, and automatic reaction methods) that are needed for standard monitoring functionality are predefined in the alert monitor. You can display the definitions of these methods using Transaction RZ21.

Method assignments to monitoring tree elements are also predefined. For every MTE, the best available data collection and analysis methods are assigned. Where available, automatic reaction methods are also predefined.

Further, monitoring tree elements have been assigned to MTE classes according to a best-practices model for alert monitor Customizing. An MTE class represents the general properties and method assignments shared by a particular group of monitoring tree elements. The MTE class is also used in rule-based monitor definitions.

For example, the Space Management monitoring object and the Free Space monitoring attribute share the CCMS_DB_Freespace_MT MTE class. This means that the two MTEs share general properties and method assignments.

Alert thresholds and attribute group assignments.

"Best practices" values for alert thresholds and severity weightings have been predefined for all monitoring attributes. These settings are based on SAP's wide experience with production R/3 Systems.

SAP has also predefined the attribute groups to which monitoring attributes are assigned. An attribute group represents the alert thresholds shared by a particular type of monitoring attribute.

For example, all instance-specific exemplars of the Response Time monitoring attribute share by default a single attribute group. That means that by default the same response time thresholds are in effect in all instances of an R/3 System.

Monitor set and monitor definitions. SAP has predefined two default monitor sets, the SAP CCMS Monitor Templates and the SAP CCMS Technical Expert Monitors. The monitors in the SAP CCMS Monitor Templates set show the monitoring objects and attributes that are essential for monitoring the R/3 System and are used for normal system administration.

You use the monitors in the SAP CCMS Technical Expert Monitors for problem analysis and for monitoring the monitoring architecture itself. For example, you could use the CCMS Selfmonitoring monitor for internal monitoring, or All Monitoring Contexts to see the available contexts in your R/3 System, that is, what you can include in your monitor.

The monitors in the SAP CCMS Monitor Templates are set to the overview level of detail and the monitors in the SAP CCMS Technical Expert Monitors are set to the expert analysis level. However, the alert monitor automatically shows any MTEs that have alerts, no matter what level of detail they are normally assigned to.

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Working with the Tree