Display Central Reports in the NW Administrator 

Use

You can use this plug-in to display monitoring data from a central monitoring system (CEN) in a simple and clear interface in the SAP NetWeaver Administrator. When you do so, all monitor sets and monitors from the alert monitor of the CEN are available to you, and the monitoring data itself comes from all monitored systems.

In this plug-in, you therefore see both current performance values and messages from the monitored systems and components and problem messages (alerts) that you have not yet completed. An alert is generated, for example, if a value exceeds or falls below a particular threshold value, a message with the corresponding value is generated, or a component is inactive for a defined period of time.

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites must be fulfilled for you to be able to display monitor sets and monitors from the monitoring infrastructure in the NW Administrator:

●      You must have completed the configuration of CEN. In particular, you must have entered the systems to be monitored in the monitoring infrastructure of CEN (see the documentation on the configuration of the monitoring architecture).

●      All systems to be monitored must be entered in your System Landscape Directory (SLD).

●      You have connected the SLD to the NW Administrator (more information: Connection Between Web AS Java Systems and the SLD).

●      You have entered the connection to CEN in the Visual Administrator (see Defining the Central Monitoring System for the NW Administrator).

Features

Select the Monitors to Be Displayed (Select Monitors)

To display monitoring data from CEN, first choose the monitor set (View Set) and the monitor (View) that you want to display.

While in the Alert Monitor, only data from the local system is displayed in most of the standard monitors, in the NW Administrator, data is displayed from all systems that you have selected in the System Landscape Selection (see System Landscape Selection).

Display the Monitoring Data (All Monitors)

●      The monitor that you selected appears in a table-type tree structure. Every row displayed with a triangle pointing right at the start of the row () is also the root node of a subtree. You can open the next level of this subtree by choosing this icon, or choosing the Open Subtree button.

To display only certain nodes from various subtrees, select these nodes by choosing the Mark button and choose the Show Marked button. To return to the monitoring tree display, choose the Show All button.

●      Each row has one of the following alert statuses:

Icon	Status
	Error
	Warning
	OK
	No information

This alert status is propagated upward in the tree hierarchy, meaning that the alert status of a root node always corresponds to the highest alert in the underlying subtree. If a node is not displaying an alert, there is also no error in the entire branch below it.

●      Each row has a node type (Type) that specifies whether values are reported directly in this node (and therefore alerts are generated), or whether the node is used only for the hierarchical structuring of the monitoring tree.

Node Type	Meaning
Virtual Summary	Act as titles or headings in the monitoring tree and do not have any monitoring functions themselves
Object	Combines various monitoring attributes that belong to the same component or the same attribute of a system
Integer	Displays a numerical value and generates an alert if the values exceed or fall below the associated threshold values
Availability	Displays the availability of a monitored object as a percentage and generates an alert if the value falls below the associated threshold values
Variable State Log System	Display error message texts, alert statuses, or lines from log or trace files; if the message has a corresponding value in the monitoring infrastructure, an alert is generated
Text	Allows the reporting of information that does not have any alert value

The node types in which values are reported directly (Integer, Availability, Variable State, Log System, and Text) are known as monitoring attributes.

Current Node

The node in the monitoring tree for which you last selected the checkbox at the start of the row is the current node. It is highlighted with an orange frame. You can display additional information for this node:

●      For monitoring attributes, you can display current data (Current Values). Depending on the type of the monitoring attribute, these include the newest numerical values, maximum and minimum values, or messages that were reported in this node by the monitoring infrastructure. The system also displays a short description of the node.

●      In addition to their values and the assigned alerts, the nodes also contain properties and methods that are displayed on the Configuration tab page. Depending on the type of the node, these are, for example, the threshold values as of which an alert is generated, or the methods that are assigned to the node. In the NW Administrator, you only have read access to these values.

If you want to display these values for all nodes of your monitoring tree, choose the views Customizing Data, Methods, or Thresholds in the monitoring tree display by selecting the corresponding entry in the Display dropdown list.

●      If a threshold value is exceeded for a node, or a critical message is reported, an alert is generated for this node. The Alert Browser displays the alerts that have been generated for the current node, even if the current value of the node has normalized again. If the current node contains a subtree, all values of the subtree are displayed.

●      To check the previous values of the current node, choose the History tab page.

Activities

To work with the Central Reports plug-in of the NW Administrator, perform the following steps:

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       1.      In the System Landscape Selection, select the systems that you want to monitor.

       2.      Go through the monitor sets and monitors that contain the data that is relevant for you. These could, for example, be the following sets:

Monitor Set	Meaning
SAP CCMS Monitor Templates	Templates that contain a complete overview of the monitored values for AS ABAP
SAP J2EE Monitor Templates	Templates that contain a complete overview of the monitored values for AS Java
SAP CCMS Technical Operation Templates	Templates that contain the most important monitored values for the regular monitoring of AS ABAP and Java

●        To find out which monitor sets and monitors contain values for your monitored application, see the documentation for your application.

●        You can create monitor sets and monitors yourself in CEN.

       3.      To ensure that you are seeing all alerts that exist in your monitors, switch to the Alerts view by choosing this entry from the Display dropdown list. An alert for a node is displayed in this view even if the node no longer contains an alert in the Current Data view due to a new message or better values being reported.

       4.      To analyze an alert for the current node, choose the Analyze button next to the display of the current node. For most nodes of the AS ABAP, this starts an appropriate transaction for the alert in the corresponding system, with which you can investigate the alert.

       5.      If you have corrected the cause of the alert, or have determined that the alert was caused by a temporary problem and can be ignored, select the relevant row in the Alert Browser and choose Complete Alerts. The alerts are then deleted from the active alerts (and therefore no longer displayed in the Alerts display), and are saved in the Alert History.