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Use

You can carry out the following tasks in the Landscape (landscape administration) area:

  • Monitor the system status

  • Configure a distributed TREX system

  • Display TREX configuration files

  • Display host-related and server-related information (for example, availability of the TREX servers, load on the operating system resources, installed TREX release)

  • Display and delete trace files

  • Execute a performance trace and save the result to a file

  • Configure the RFC connection to an SAP system

  • Configure the TREX Web server

Features

The figure below shows you where the landscape administration area is located in the TREX admin tool (standalone):

The following table provides an overview of the windows and functions that are available in this area.

Window

Description

Summary

This tab page provides an overview of the TREX status with information on the TREX version, operating system, and current error messages. The Status Details window area displays current alert messages.

Landscape: Alert

Used to monitor TREX. Checks are performed periodically and in the event of errors, the system administrator is informed by e-mail.

For more information, see TREX Alert Server.

Landscape: Configuration

Enables the configuration of a distributed TREX system.

For more information, see the SAP NetWeaver Search and Classification TREX Multiple Hosts installation guide. The installation guide is located on SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/instguides.

Landscape: Reorg

This tab page enables the reorganization of the indexes in a TREX landscape.

More information: Reorganization of the TREX Landscape.

Landscape: Tree

Depicts the content of the topology.ini configuration file as a tree structure. The configuration file is managed by the name server. It contains technical information about the TREX servers, indexes, and queues.

Caution

Only make changes here if those changes are specified in the TREX documentation.

Landscape: Ini

Displays the TREX configuration files.

You can display the content of the configuration files and change it if necessary.

Caution

Changing configuration files directly requires expert knowledge of the TREX architecture and TREX-internal processes. Only make direct changes to the configuration files if those changes are described in the TREX documentation.

Landscape: Hosts

Displays information on the TREX hosts.

It shows the installation directory, the operating system platform, and the installed TREX release.

Landscape: Services

Displays information about TREX servers, such as the load on the TREX servers.

You can stop and start TREX and the TREX servers here.

Landscape: Trace

Displays the trace files of the TREX servers.

By default, the trace files contain all error messages that the TREX servers output. You can display the content of a trace file by double-clicking it and delete trace files that you no longer need.

The Trace Levels function allows you to display the trace levels for the TREX servers and add new trace components if necessary.

In addition, you can specify whether or not and in which format the system is to output trace files.

Landscape: Perf. Trace

You can create and save performance traces here.

Landscape: Connectivity

You configure the connection to the application here.