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Purpose

The CCMS agents extend the monitoring architecture by providing an alternative connection route, in addition to the ABAP interface, from the central monitoring system to any other servers. In doing so, they enable you to:

Prerequisites

You must first clarify which of the CCMS agents is suitable for your system:

CCMS Agent

Suitable for:

SAPCCMSR

Components with no SAP instance;
Central monitoring system as of SAP Basis 4.6B.

SAPCCM4X

SAP systems as of SAP Basis 4.X;
Central monitoring system as of SAP Basis 4.6C

SAPCM3X

SAP systems with SAP Basis 3.X

Note

If you want to install SAPCCM4X, you must have entered the monitored system as a remote system in the central monitoring system (see Structure linkMonitoring Multiple SAP R/3 Systems).

When installing a CCMS agent under Windows NT or Windows 2000, you require administrator rights on the relevant host.

Process Flow

  1. Download the desired CCMS agent from the Software Catalog of the SAP Service Marketplace (see Downloading the CCMS Agents).
  2. Copy the downloaded CCMS agent to its working directory (see Working Directory and Log Files of the CCMS Agents).
  3. If you want to perform a dialog-free installation, create the configuration file required for this (see Configuration File for Dialog-Free Installation of the Agents). Save the file in the working directory of the CCMS agent.

Note

The configuration file is always the same when installing the CCMS agent on more than one server. It therefore makes sense to install the CCMS agent using appropriate software distribution methods and to then configure it automatically.

If you want to perform the installation in dialog, the system will prompt you for required configuration files during the installation. You must also enter a valid SAP user that is used once to create an RFC connection to the agent in the central monitoring system. This user requires the authorization to execute transactions RZ20/21 (S_RZL_ADM with authorization field ACTVT and value 01) and to enter an RFC destination using transaction SM59 (S_ADMI_FCD with authorization field S_ADMI_FCD and value NADM).
  1. If your central monitoring system has a release status of at least SAP Web Application Server 6.10, activate the Push Technology of the CCMS Agents.
  1. If you want to monitor log files with the CCMS agent, create a configuration file for this manually (see Monitoring Log Files with CCMS Agents).
  2. If you want to select particular file systems or components for monitoring of operating system data or to exclude them from this monitoring, create a configuration file to do this (see Monitoring Operating System Data with CCMS Agents).
  3. Now edit the configuration file SAPCCMSR.INI. Specify the path of each of the configuration files created in the previous two steps in this file. If you want to activate alert logging of the CCMS agent, you must set the parameters AlertLog and AlertLogLevel in this file.
  4. Register the CCMS agent. During registration, an RFC connection to the agent is automatically created in the central monitoring system. Depending on the agent, you do this using the following command:

Agent

Installation Call

SAPCCMSR

sapccmsr -r [-f <Filename>] [pf=<Profile path>]

SAPCCM4X

sapccm4x -r [-f <Filename>] pf=<Profile path>

SAPCM3X

sapcm3x -r [-f <Filename>] [pf=<Profile path>]

<Filename> is the name of the configuration file for the dialog-free installation of the agent. If you do not specify this option, the installation is performed in dialog mode.

<Profile path> is the full file path of the profile of the monitored instance. In the case of SAPCCMSR, it is the full file path of the Profile File of the Agent.

The CCMS agent is now registered.
  1. Under Windows NT and Windows 2000, the agent has been entered as a service and started. The agent is automatically restarted at every restart.
  2. If you have installed the CCMS agent on a UNIX platform, the agent has not yet been started. Started it using the appropriate command:

Agent

Start Command

SAPCCMSR

sapccmsr –DCCMS [pf=<profile path>]

SAPCCM4X

sapccm4x –DCCMS pf=<profile path>

SAPCM3X

sapcm3x –DCCMS [pf=<profile path>]

On a UNIX platform, you must also ensure yourself that the CCMS agent is automatically started after a restart of the server (for example, by entering the start command in INITTAB).
  1. The data transferred by the CCMS agent is now available in the central monitoring system. If you require more convenient access to this data, you can Create Monitors for the CCMS Agents in the Central Monitoring System.

See also:

Functions of the CCMS Agents

Installation Example: SAPCCM4X on Windows NT

Installation Example: SAPCCMSR on Windows NT

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