Monitoring Properties Variants 

Definition

All monitoring tree elements (MTEs) in the alert monitor are predefined with standard general properties, method assignments, and alert thresholds. If you make changes to these settings, your changes are assigned to a monitoring properties variant.

You must activate a monitoring properties variant so that the settings it contains are used actively in the monitoring architecture.

There is a properties variant hierarchy 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 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.

From Release 4.6A, you can also assign a monitoring properties variant to an operation mode. The advantage of this is that you no longer have to activate the variant manually, it is activated when the corresponding operation mode is started.

See also:

 

Defining Operation Modes