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Use

You can customize the availability monitoring with CCMSPING for ABAP and Java systems in a number of ways. The following functions are available:

  • You can activate and deactivate availability monitoring for particular systems

  • You can define the type of availability monitoring for application servers and logon groups of an SAP system. When doing so, you can both create and change monitoring rules, in accordance with which the servers and groups of the system are monitored, and change the monitoring settings of servers and groups individually.

    Note

    Logon groups exist only for ABAP application servers.

  • You can activate and deactivate availability monitoring for systems groups. You can also decide whether these settings should also automatically apply for systems that are later added to the relevant system group (see Monitoring System Groups with CCMSPING).

  • If you have installed multiple CCMSPING agents, you can decide which CCMSPING is responsible for the monitoring of a system. This is, for example, useful for the monitoring of distributed system landscapes (see Using Multiple CCMSPING Agents).

  • You can select time periods in which the availability of selected systems is not checked (see Creating and Deletiong Monitoring Pauses)

  • You can add new systems to the list of systems that can be checked using availability monitoring.

Prerequisites
Process

  1. Choose Start of the navigation path CCMS Next navigation step Configuration Next navigation step Alert Monitor End of the navigation path, or call transaction RZ21.

  2. The Monitoring: Properties and Methods screen appears. Choose Start of the navigation path Technical Infrastructure Next navigation step Availability Monitoring Next navigation step Configure CCMSPING Monitoring End of the navigation path.

  3. The Configure Availability and Performance Overview screen appears. The screen shows monitored and unmonitored systems in two lists, where you can display for the monitoring of the monitoring systems by expanding the subtree for the corresponding system:

    Note

    The configuration of the availability and performance overview is also set as the analysis method for the nodes of the Availability and Performance Overview Monitor. This means that you can display this screen by double-clicking a node in this monitor.

    Note

    If no systems are displayed in the lists, choose Load System List- more information below.

Displaying the Monitoring and System Data

There are various views available on the Configure Availability and Performance Overview screen, with which you can display information about the monitored systems and their application servers and logon groups. To activate a view, choose the Views button, and then one of the following buttons:

View

Meaning

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System Info View

The valid monitoring rules and the responsible CCMSPING are displayed for the monitored systems

Using Multiple CCMSPING Agents

Group/Instance View

The settings for the monitoring options for application servers and logon groups for the monitored systems are displayed

Creating and Changing Monitoring Rules

Administration View

Time and users of the last monitoring change are displayed

  

Connection View

Message server port, message server host, and router string are displayed

Availability Monitoring with CCMSPING

Changing the Monitoring of Systems

To change the monitoring of systems, select the desired systems on the Configure Availability and Performance Overview screen by selecting the folder icon of the relevant systems. The following functions are then available to you:

Function

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Activating the Monitoring of Systems

In the Unmonitored Systems subscreen, choose Start of the navigation path Monitoring Next navigation step Activate System Monitoring End of the navigation path.

Creating and Changing Monitoring Rules

If you want to monitor systems using the Java message server, you must first enter the connection data. Proceed as described in Adding Systems to Availability Monitoring Manually.

Activating the Uniform Monitoring of Systems

In the Unmonitored Systems subscreen, choose Start of the navigation path Monitoring Next navigation step Define Uniform Monitoring End of the navigation path.

Changing the Monitoring Rules for Systems

In the Monitored Systems subscreen, choose Start of the navigation path Monitoring Next navigation step Change Connection/Options End of the navigation path.

Changing the Uniform Monitoring of Systems

In the Monitored Systems subscreen, choose Start of the navigation path Monitoring Next navigation step Use Uniform System Options End of the navigation path.

Creating and Changing the Monitoring Pause for Systems

Choose Start of the navigation path Breaks Next navigation step Create Monitoring Pause End of the navigation path or Create Uniform Monitoring Pause.

Creating and Deleting Monitoring Pauses

Deactivating the Monitoring of Systems

In the Monitored Systems subscreen, choose Start of the navigation path Monitoring Next navigation step Deactivate Uniform System Monitoring End of the navigation path.

  

Delete Systems from the System List

Choose the button Start of the navigation path Monitoring Next navigation step Delete Uniform System(s) End of the navigation path.

  
Note

You can also activate and deactivate system monitoring by moving selected systems to the desired list by Drag&Drop.

Monitoring System Groups

You can combine systems into system groups (see System Groups in the Alert Monitor), where one system can belong to multiple system groups. In this way, you can, for example, organize systems into system groups by their function (development, quality assurance, production), their release status, or their geographic location.

In large IT environments, it can greatly simplify the configuration of availability monitoring, if you can, for example, monitor all systems in a system group with one command. You can also set up the monitoring so that changes to the systems that belong to a system group automatically cause a change in the availability monitoring of the relevant systems.

For more information about monitoring system groups, see Monitoring System Groups with CCMSPING.

Changing the Monitoring of Application Servers and Logon Groups

You can change the monitoring settings for servers and groups on the Configure Availability and Performance Overview by selecting the relevant indicator in the ALV Tree Control.

Add New Systems to the List of ABAP Systems that Can Be Monitored

On the Configure Availability and Performance Overview screen, choose Load System List. If the desired ABAP system does not appear on the list, add the system to it manually (see Add Systems to the Availability Monitoring Manually).

Caution

The SAPMSG.INI file, which is also used for functions of SAPLOGON, is uploaded from the front end for the system list. It does not contain any standalone Java systems.

Changing Technical Settings of the Availability Agent CCMSPING

You can also change technical settings of the registered CCMSPING availability agents, such as the frequency of the monitoring, or the timeouts that define how long CCMSPING waits for a response from the message servers and the application servers (see Changing the Monitoring Frequency and Timeouts of CCMSPING).

Adjusting Method Execution

You can adjust the execution of the data collection methods that is performed in the context of availability monitoring with CCMSPING to your needs. In particular, you can run the methods in the background, which excludes the risk of a runtime timeout in the case of large landscapes (more information: Adjusting Availability Monitoring Methods with CCMSPING).

Result

You have customized the availability monitoring to your requirements. Use the Availability and Performance Overview Monitor from the SAP CCMS Monitor Templates monitor set to perform availability monitoring.

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