Layout of the SAP Management Console

The SAP Management Console (SAP MC) presents information in the navigation pane and the result pane.

General Layout

The SAP MC presents information in two panes of a window. The pane on the left is the navigation pane, which displays available information in a tree structure that can be expanded and collapsed. The pane on the right is the result pane, which shows detailed information about any item selected in the navigation pane.

The system icons and the nodes for instances, processes, and alerts are displayed in different colors depending on their state. The colors indicate the following:

Gray: Unknown state, only outdated values, system is offline
Green: Running
Yellow: Starting or stopping or warning
Red: Error

Navigation Pane

To access detailed information about your SAP system, you have to expand the Java or central services instance fully and then select an item. Once an item has been selected, the corresponding information is displayed in the result pane. The following table summarizes the available options:

Tree Node	Description
SAP Systems	The root node for all registered systems and instances.
SAP system - for example, CE1	Node for an SAP system. The colors indicate states that are derived from the SAP instance sub-nodes and are automatically refreshed.
Database	Node for the database of the SAP system
SAP instance - for example, SCS00 on `<host>`	Node for an SAP instance. The color indicates the state that is automatically refreshed and inherited from the Process Listsub-node.
Process List	Displays the processes started by the start service and their status. The color is automatically refreshed and reflects the worst state of all started processes.
Open Alerts	Displays the most serious alerts in the system.
Current Status	Displays detailed information about the current state of the system. It allows you to navigate to different categories of system information and levels of detail.
Queue Statistics	Displays the status of the ICM queues. You have to refresh the information manually.
AS ABAP WP Table	Displays a list of the work processes in AS ABAP and detailed information. More information: Displaying and Controling Work Processesin the Application Server ABAP documentation.
Access Points	Displays the communication ports used by the system. .
Process Table	Displays information about the application server processes. The application server has to be started, but does not have to be functioning properly since the shared memory of the application server is accessed. You have to refresh the information manually.
Caches	Displays monitoring information about the performance and content of the caches in the Java instance. A red cache icons do not indicate problems in the system, but rather that the caches with red icons have not yet provided a performance value to the system or have not yet been used.
Threads	Displays details and statistics for the threads managed by the application server.
Sessions	Displays details and statistics for the application server HTTP/HTTPS sessions.
Aliases	Displays a list of the aliases of the currently deployed applications.
GC History	Displays statistics and details for the last few garbage collection events.
Heap Memory	Displays details about the current size of the application server heap memory.
EJB Sessions	Displays details and statistics for the application server EJB sessions.
Remote Objects	Displays statistics for the remote objects to which external users are connected at the time of monitoring.
Shared Object Table	Displays information about the capacity, current usage and peaks of the shared memory segment of the monitoring.
AS Java Cluster Messages	Displays information about the internal communication between the components of the cluster elements.
ICM	Displays information about ICM threads, connections, caches, and the proxy list.
Enqueue Locks	Displays the existing locks in the lock table.
Enqueue Statistics	Displays overall statistics data about the Enqueue Service, lock requests and rejects, request cleanup, and so on.
Log Files	Displays the log, trace, and system files.

You can update the information at any time by choosing Refresh Selected Objectsfrom the task bar.

Result Pane

The result pane shows detailed information about an item of the navigation pane, as soon as you select this item in the navigation pane. The following table lists the most important elements that you can display on the result pane.

Area	Description
System `<SAPSID>`	Is displayed when you select the main node of a system Contains information about the system status (running or stopped), about the number of instances and about stack technology (ABAP or Java)
Database	Is displayed when you select the main node of a system Contains information about the database status (running or stopped), about the database vendor and about stack technology (ABAP or Java)
High Availability Configuration	Is displayed when you select the main node of a system Area is only populated with data if your system is configured as a high-availability (HA) system Contains information about the current status of HA clusters (SUCCESS or ERROR)
Instance `<INSTANCE_NAME><NO>` on `<host_name>`	Is displayed when you select any instance node underneath of the main system node and choose the Instance tab Contains information about the instance status (running or stopped) and about the features within the instance, such as message server, enqueue server, or gateway
High Availability Information	Is displayed when you select any instance node underneath of the main system node and choose the Instance tab Area is only populated with data if your system is configured as a high-availability (HA) system Contains information about the following: high-availability (HA) status of the instance (active or inactive) switchover software vendor and version active and available cluster nodes Using the Failover button you can perform manual switchover between the available cluster nodes
Operating System	Is displayed when you select any instance node underneath of the main system node and choose the Operating System tab Contains information about the operating system of the instance host, such as manufacturer, version and license
Memory	Is displayed when you select any instance node underneath of the main system node and choose the Operating System tab Contains information about available physical and total memory on the instance host
File Systems	Is displayed when you select any instance node underneath of the main system node and choose the Operating System tab Contains information about file systems on the instance host
OS Process	Is displayed when you select any instance node underneath of the main system node and choose the Operating System tab Contains information about operating system processes on the instance host

In the result pane, there is an additional filter function Filterin the table header for lists that normally have many rows. If you enter data in the filter fields, only matching table rows are displayed. You can use the wild cards *and ?in the filter setting. Use >, <and !for numerical fields, for example.

Example	Description
`!20`	not 20
`< 120`	smaller than 120
`> 120`	bigger than 120

Use the prefix regex: <regular expression> for searching.

In the result pane, you can display the information in various ways as well as disable applied filters. To do so, choose the Settingsbutton in the upper right-hand side corner of the result pane, and then choose the relevant option.

There are several possibilities to sort the columns in the result pane:

First click on the column (descending).

Second click on the column (ascending).
After the third click on the column you see the original view again (unsorted).
Press Ctrland click on several columns and several columns are sorted.