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SAP System
Agents
Use
Release 4.6C of the SAP System is delivered
with an agent system that enables you to check the availability of and access
data on inactive instances.
There are three new agents:
This agent makes it
possible to monitor SAP Release 3.0 and 3.1 Systems with the monitoring
architecture in R/3 Release 4.x. You can monitor basic information on Release
3.x Systems from the alert monitor (Transaction RZ20) in a Release 4.x System,
such as
- List of configured services of an Release 3.x
instance
- Availability of an Release 3.x
instance
- Dialog servi ce: response time, wait time and
number of users
- Update service: response time and wait
time
- Release 3.x alert information.
This is a read agent
that is used to access SAP Release 4.x instances externally. It is the second
communication path in a monitored instance. The agent provides access to data
when the SAP System or instance cannot be accessed directly.
The instance
supplies exclusively the shared memory area that is relevant for alerts. This
means that performance and alert data can be accessed, even if the instance is
down and, therefore, the monitoring architecture is not
available.
This agent checks
the availability of SAP Systems at system level as well as at instance level
by pinging the mesage server in the relevant system. The agent is responsible
for the display and maintenance of the monitored system (by specifying the
relevant message server and possibly the route as well). This occurs centrally
in the CCMS of the central system. The ccmsping agent needs to be
running on only one server in the system group.
Effects on
System Administration
There is no special maintenance transaction for
the ccmsping agent. Instead you maintain it using Transaction
SE16.
The three agents are only available for the NT
and UNIX operating systems, and not for AS400 or OS390.
See
also
For more information on how to monitor Release
3.x Systems, see the 4.6C online documentation and the read-me text at the
following address:
ftp://sapservx/general/misc/ccms-ma/3x-monitoring/readme.txt.