Monitoring of the Application Server with the SAP Management Console

You have started the SAP MC.

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 node  SAP Systems   <SAPSID>    <instance_host_and_number>   AS Java  Aliases . The result pane displays the started applications, their aliases, and other details. If necessary, launch the application.

• To monitor the Web, EJB, and remote-object requests to your application using HTTP and RMI, in the navigation pane, choose the Sessions, EJB sessions, or Remote Objectnode from the AS Javatree 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 Threadsnode from the AS Javatree 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.

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

• To monitor the status of the Java processes, choose the Process Tablenode from the AS Javatree structure.

• To view the overall cache and thread system information, choose the Cachesor Threadsnode from the AS Javatree structure.

• To view the overall VM performance, choose the GC Historyor Heap Memorynode from the AS Javatree structure.

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 that exist in the system with the corresponding alert colors.

More information: Alertsin the Application Server ABAP documentation

• To monitor the current data reported for every monitoring tree element, expand the Current Statustree 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 was last measured.

• To monitor the most severe alerts in the system, expand the Open Alertstree 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 last occurred. This view does not necessarily reflect the current state of the system.

  Note

  If the system has not generated any alerts, the table in the result pane displays only the name of the relevant monitor.

• To acknowledge the alerts in the system with an ABAP backend, select the Current Statusor Open Alertsnode from the tree structure of the relevant instance. From the context menu, choose All Alerts. The Alert Inboxappears where you can view the alerts and acknowledge them.

You can configure the threshold values if the predefined levels are not suitable for your needs.

• For Java systems, you can configure the threshold values and activate or deactivate monitors from the Java System Reports.

  More information: Managing Monitors with the Monitor Browserin the Application Server Java documentation

• For ABAP systems, you can configure the threshold values in the Alert Monitor.

  More information: Changing Properties in the Alert Monitoring Treein the Application Server ABAP documentation

The CCMS functionality of the SAP NetWeaver management agents has to be active in order to view the complete sub-trees of Open Alertsand Current Statustree structures. There are two ways of activating it:

• Register the monitored system with a central monitoring system.

• Set the profile parameter ccms/enable_agent=1

More information:

Configuring a Central Monitoring System (CEN)in the Application Server ABAP documentation.

Profile File of the CCMS Agentsin the Application Server ABAP documentation.

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 Databasenode.

• In the logon-dialog box, enter your user-ID as user sapadmor <sapsid>adm.

The result pane displays the type of the server, the host of the database instance, the vendor of the database, and the SAP system ID (SAPSID).

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

• To display information about the created worker threads, choose the Thread Listsub-node from the ICMtree structure.

• To display information about the existing connections, choose the Connection Listsub-node from the ICMtree structure.

• To display information about all objects currently in the ICM Server Cache, choose the Cache Listsub-node from the ICMtree structure.

• To display information about the proxy server list, choose the Proxy Listsub-node from the ICMtree structure.

More information on ICM operation: Using the Web Administration Interface