CCMS Monitoring Console 

Purpose

The CCMS Monitoring Console allows you to clearly display monitoring data for central monitoring of SAP system landscapes. This data comes from the following sources:

●     CCMS monitoring architecture

●     Kernel statistics

●     Process Monitoring Infrastructure

Both the configuration of the landscapes and the display of the monitored components are so intuitive that less specialized employees can easily operate the MC without training or long adjustment periods.

Components such as landscapes, systems, and application servers of an SAP environment are displayed hierarchically in a tree. The respective status (error, warning, OK) is displayed using color coding. You can navigate in the Monitoring Console using the tree. You can save your most important components as favorites.

The most important performance values and their alert status are displayed for the selected components, along with alerts that have been reported for the corresponding component. You can also display the threshold values for the displayed attributes. The alert status is to change when a reported value exceeds or falls below these values.

If you want to use the CCMS Monitoring Console, see SAP Note 900505.

Implementation Considerations

In the configuration, you simply enter the logon data for a user for the relevant remote system under whose name the data is to be transferred from the remote system to the central monitoring system. Additional configuration settings, such as setting up RFC destinations, are not required.

The following authorizations are required in the central monitoring system to be able to use the MC:

●     Operators must be assigned an adjusted copy of the role SAP_BC_BASIS_MONITORING to be able to display the MC.

●     Administrators must be assigned an adjusted copy of the role SAP_BC_BASIS_ADMIN to be able to change MC settings.

Integration

The MC extends the Alert Monitor. The MC offers the following advantages:

●     By restricting the MC to the most important performance values, it provides you with a clearer display; you can therefore perform your monitoring tasks more quickly.

●     The simple operation means that less specialized employees can also operate the Monitoring Console without additional training or long adjustment periods; this lowers the total cost of ownership (TCO) of an SAP installation.

●     Simplified configuration: you are provided with optimal support for the necessary configuration steps for creating your system landscapes with the associated systems. The local system is already monitored “out of the box” without the need for additional configuration.

●     The MC uses Business Server Pages (BSP) to display its data. Since this means the front end runs in the browser, it is not necessary to install SAP GUI (see Starting the Monitoring Console).

Constraints

In the first version for SAP Web AS 6.40, the Customizing of the monitoring architecture, such as changing threshold values or maintaining or using methods is not integrated into the MC.

Only Oracle and MaxDB are currently supported for monitoring databases.