Downloading CCMS Agents 

Use

If you want to use the CCMS agents to monitor your system landscape, you can download them from the SAP Service Marketplace.

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 and J2EE Engines with SAP Web AS 6.20; Central monitoring system as of SAP R/3 4.6B
SAPCCMSR –j2ee	Java instances as of SAP Web AS 6.30 Central monitoring system as of SAP Web AS 6.40
SAPCCM4X	ABAP instances as of SAP R/3 4.X; Central monitoring system as of SAP R/3 4.6C
SAPCM3X	SAP systems with SAP R/3 3.X

Procedure

       1.      You require the file CCMAGENT.SAR. This archive contains all CCMS agents, including SAPCCMSR, SAPCCM4X, and SAPCM3X.

We recommend that you use the newest version of each agent. You can determine the version of a CCMS agent with the option–V (see Controlling CCMS Agents).

The archive also contains the availability agent CCMSPING. For more information, see Availability Monitoring with CCMSPING

       2.      You can find CCMAGENT.SAR in the SAP Software Distribution Center of the SAP Service Marketplace (http://service.sap.com/swdc). Log on using your SAP Service Marketplace ID. Check the following folders in the specified order for this file, and download it:

¡        In the navigation bar, choose Download ® Support Packages and Patches ® Entry by Application Group ® SAP NetWeaver ® SAP NETWEAVER ® SAP NETWEAVER 04 ® Entry by Component ® AS ABAP ®  SAP KERNEL 6.40 32/64-BIT ® <operating system> ® Database Independent.

¡        Only if the desired archive does not exist in the above folder, choose Download ® Support Packages and Patches ® Entry by Application Group ® SAP NetWeaver ® SAP NetWeaver components (< SAP NW 04) ® SAP WEB AS ® SAP WEB AS 6.20 ® SAP WEB AS ABAP ® SAP KERNEL 6.20 32/64-BIT ® <operating system> ® Database Independent.

¡        Only if the desired archive does not exist in either of the above folders, choose Download ® Archive for Support Packages and Patches ® Entry by Application Group ® SAP Application Components ® SAP R/3 ® SAP R/3 4.6A ® SAP KERNEL 4.6D 32/64-BIT ® <operating system> ® Database Independent.

The reason for specifying multiple folders is that CCMS agents are partly dependent on the operating system release. Agents for a current SAP release may no longer cover all available operating system releases (for example, agents for SAP Web Application Server 6.20 are supported only on HP-UX 11.x; however, there are still application servers to be monitored that are running on HP-UX 10.x).

·         You can determine the version of the CCMS agents in CCMAGENT.SAR by displaying the associated Info File.

·         If you require an agent for an older operating system release that is not in the folders above, SAP also provides the newest CCMS agent functions in patches to older SAP releases (especially SAP R/3 4.6D), as far as possible.

       3.      Decompress the CCMAGENT.SAR archive with the SAPCAR tool. Take account of SAP Note 212876 (The new archiving tool SAPCAR). Normally, you use the following command for decompression, and execute it in the directory of the archive:

sapcar –xvf ccmagent.sar

All CCMS agents are backward compatible in relation to the SAP release. This means that:

·         The release of the agent may be higher than the release of the central monitoring system with which the agent is communicating. We do, however, recommend that you use as high a release status as possible for the central monitoring system.

·         For agent SAPCCM4X, the release of the agent can be higher than the SAP release of the monitored SAP application server.

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