After you have installed and started the operating system collector SAPOSCOL, it automatically begins to collect operating system data for its local host and to store this data in the shared memory.

SAPOSCOL provides various settings that you can use to improve its performance, to customize the quantity of collected data to your requirements, and to help you find the causes of errors.

The SAPOSCOL operating system collector is started and stopped by the associated NetWeaver Management host agent. To restart SAPOSCOL, you can therefore restart the corresponding host agent, as described in Restarting NetWeaver Management Agents.