The Monitoring Architecture: Concept
Purpose
The alerts are displayed in a
tree structure in the Alert Monitor and are assigned a severity and a color (yellow for a warning, red for a problem). You can view the current status of your system here and process alerts. The Alert Monitor is based on the monitoring architecture that was introduced with SAP Basis 4.0.
The CCMS Monitoring Architecture is not a monolithic monitoring and administration program. Rather it offers a flexible framework into which extensive monitoring and administration functions can easily be added.
The components of the monitoring architecture work largely independently of each other and can be extended and customized independently of each other.
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The data suppliers transfer their information to the monitoring architecture. This provides an infrastructure for the collection and administration of system information. The monitoring architecture therefore constantly compares the values reported by the data suppliers for the monitored objects with threshold values and triggers an
alert if a value exceeds or falls below a threshold.A data consumer is a program that reads data from the monitoring architecture; it displays the information transferred to the monitoring architecture by the data suppliers. SAP delivers both the standard data consumer, the Alert Monitor, and other special monitors that all use the data delivered by the monitoring architecture.
A monitoring object describes an object that is to be monitored. A monitoring attribute describes an information type that is to be reported for a monitoring object. Monitoring objects include, for example, the CPU of your host system, the database, and SAP R/3 Services such as background processing. Monitoring attributes for a CPU object could be CPU utilization and the average CPU workload for the last five minutes.
The Alert Monitor also provides the
administration methods that are required for the monitoring of the system. You can therefore set the threshold values for alerts and add or adjust auto reaction and analysis methods: If an alert is triggered, auto reaction methods react automatically; you can investigate the cause of an alert with an analysis method, without leaving the Alert Monitor. The monitoring architecture also contains tools for the management and archiving of alerts.