Advanced Functions of the CCMS agents 

Use

In addition to data transfer, agents also make entirely new monitoring functions possible within the monitoring architecture. To activate these advanced functions, you must usually create a corresponding configuration file and either reference this file in SAPCCMSR.INI: Configuration File for the CCMS Agents or copy them to the relevant standard directories that the agent monitors.

Changes in SAPCCMSR.INI only become active after the agent has been restarted (see Controlling CCMS Agents). Changes in the standard directories of the agent (logmon, procmon, grmg), on the other hand, are immediately detected and a corresponding monitoring function is started.

Features

·        Monitoring Log Files with CCMS Agents

One of the functions of CCMS agents is monitoring log files. You can use this log file agent, which is integrated into all agents, to monitor log files for particular search patterns, the last change time, or for their existence. This means that you can search any text files for any text patterns, assign alerts to them, and display the results in the Alert Monitor.

·        Monitoring Operating System Data with CCMS Agents

You can use a filter to explicitly remove subtrees or entire components from the operating system monitoring display. No monitoring nodes are then generated for these. Alternatively to filtering out file systems, you can activate an exclusive monitoring with which only the file systems that you explicitly specify are monitored. All other file systems are not then monitored.

·        Event Log Monitoring with CCMS Agents

On Microsoft Windows platforms, you can monitor the Windows event log with CCMS agents.

·        Alert Logging of CCMS Agents

You can define another log file for all CCMS agents that logs all alerts that the agent reports. This is especially useful if you do not use the CCMS Monitoring Architecture to display alerts (the CCMS Monitoring Architecture has its own logging), but want to use other system management tools that are to be based on the data from the CCMS agents.

·        Interpret Text Attributes as File Names/URLs and Display Contents

Files or Web resources can be monitored with various monitoring functions of the monitoring architecture. The name of the monitored file is often displayed as a text attribute. To quickly display the contents of a file of this type or of a URL from the Alert Monitor, there are two analysis methods that display the contents of the file or the URL in a separate window.

·        Registering with Multiple Central Monitoring Systems

You can register the CCMS agents with multiple monitoring systems. This means in principle that data and alerts are no longer sent just to one system, but rather to multiple systems; the corresponding agent also processes requests from all monitoring systems as an RFC server.

·        Including Additional Functions in CCMS Agents

All CCMS agents can load shared libraries that use additional data suppliers to provide additional information to the central monitoring system. An example of this is an extension for monitoring the Internet Transaction Server (ITS) and cached disk subsystems, such as EMC Disc Arrays (Symmetrix). For more information, see SAP Note 420213.

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