Monitoring the Application Server with the SAP MC 

Use

With the monitoring options provided by the SAP Management Console, several main monitoring scenarios are available.

Prerequisites

The SAP Management Console is started.

Activities

Request or Response Monitoring

You can use this scenario to monitor the requests executed by the applications deployed on the application server, and to check the status of the application threads that are processing these particular requests.

●      To locate your application, in the navigation pane, choose the SAP Systems → <SID> → <instance host and number> → AS Java  → Aliases node. The result pane displays the started applications, their aliases and other details. If necessary, launch the application. For more information, see Launching Deployed Applications from the SAP MC.

●      To monitor the Web, EJB, and remote-object requests to your application via HTTP and RMI, in the navigation pane, choose the Sessions, EJB sessions, Remote Object node from the AS Java tree structure respectively. The result pane displays details about the incoming requests.

●      To monitor the threads that process the requests, in the navigation pane, select the Threads node from the AS Java tree structure. Locate the threads that serve the incoming requests (if necessary, use the column filter options). Details about the threads, such as the task executed by the thread, start time, user triggering the request, status, and so on, are displayed in the result pane.

System Monitoring

You can use this scenario to monitor the system performance and operation.

●      To monitor the status of the Java processes, from the AS Java tree structure, choose the Process Table node.

●      To view the overall cache and thread system information, from the AS Java tree structure, choose the Caches or Threads node.

●      To view the overall VM performance, from the AS Java tree structure, choose the GC History or Heap Memory node.

System State Monitoring

The SAP MC provides alert monitoring information based on predefined thresholds. With the SAP MC you can view the current state of the system as well as the most severe alerts existing in the system.

●      To monitor the current data reported for every monitored tree element, expand the Current Status tree structure and choose the relevant tree element. In the result pane, the SAP MC displays the current state of the system and the most severe current alerts. The table in the result pane displays the relevant monitors, their value and the time the value has last been measured.

●      To monitor the most severe alerts in the system, expand the Open Alerts tree structure and choose the relevant monitor. In the result pane, the SAP MC displays the most severe alerts that have occurred in the system. The table in the result pane displays the relevant monitors, their value, and the time the alert has last occurred. This view does not necessarily reflect the current state of the system.

If the system has generated no alerts, the table in the result pane displays only the name of the relevant monitor.

You can configure the threshold values if the predefined levels are not suitable for your needs and activate or deactivate monitors that are important for your scenario from the Java System Reports.

More information: Managing Monitors with the Monitor Browser

Database Monitoring

The SAP system tree structure in the SAP MC includes a node in a special blue color for the database server. To view detailed information, select the Database node. The result pane displays the type of the server, the host of the database instance, the vendor of the database and the SID.

ICM Monitoring

In the SAP MC you can view basic monitoring information about ICM operation.

●      To display information about the created worker threads, from the ICM tree structure, choose the Thread List sub-node.

●      To display information about the existing connections, from the ICM tree structure, choose the Connection List sub-node.

●      To display information about all objects currently in the ICM Server Cache, from the ICM tree structure, choose the Cache List sub-node.

●      To display information about the proxy server list, from the ICM tree structure, choose the Proxy List sub-node.