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Use

To monitor a remote SAP R/3 System, you must first have defined an RFC connection to this system.

For security reasons, we recommend that you define two RFC destinations for every remote system, as two types of request, which are different in principle, exist between the monitored and monitoring systems:

In the monitored system, data collection methods that store the values for the monitor attributes in the shared memory there are active. The monitoring system reads these values using an RFC call (and using a particular user name). In the monitored system, this user is only an observer that must log on for each query.

If an data collection method reports an alert, you can start an analysis method in the Alert Monitor. As these analysis methods may make changes in the monitored system, they must have further-reaching authorization there.

As each of the request types access the monitored system in a very different way, and also occur at greatly different intervals, we recommend that you assign different rights using different users when defining the two RFC destinations.

Create a CSMREG user on all systems that are to be monitored and ensure that the Communication user type (as of SAP Web Application Server 6.10) or CPIC (until SAP Basis 4.6D) is activated (see Creating the CSMREG User).

We recommend that you perform the RFC call using your own user name.

Prerequisites

To be able to define the RFC connections, you must have created the CSMREG user.

Procedure

  1. Choose CCMS ® Configuration ® Alert Monitor, or call transaction RZ21.
  2. Choose Technical Infrastructure ® Create Remote Monitoring Entry
  3. Choose Goto ® Maintain RFC Connections.

    4. Note

    You can also call transaction SM59 instead of points 1-3.

  4. In the RFC destinations tree, expand the SAP R/3 Connections node.
  5. If there is not a suitable RFC connection for the system that you want to monitor, choose Create.
  1. Make the following specifications in the definition screen:

The RFC connection logs on to the remote system with these users.
  1. Save your definition. The system displays some additional fields in the Technical Settings group box. Choose Yes for the Load Distribution option and save the definition again.
  2. Complete the definition by filling the other fields in the Technical Settings group box.
    3.

    Input Field

    Input

    Target System ID

    Enter the SAP R/3 System ID (for example, C11)

    Message server

    Enter the host name of the message server. If you are not sure about this, log on to the target system and start transaction RZ03. The message server is the SAP R/3 instance with M in the Services column. The host name is the first part of the SAP R/3 instance name: host1_C11_01.

    Group

    Enter the logon group to be used in the target system. If you are not sure, call transaction SMLG in the target system to display the available groups.

    Save as

    Choose IP Address. The host name of the message server or the IP address is automatically entered in the adjacent field.

  3. Save your completed definition.
  4. Test the RFC connection with Test Connection and Remote Login.

For more information, see Structure linkMaintain Remote Destinations.

Result

You have defined the required RFC destinations. If you want to monitor the corresponding system using the Alert Monitor, follow the procedure described in Monitoring Multiple SAP R/3 Systems.

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