Prerequisites 

Configuring the Monitoring Architecture

To be able to monitor your system landscape with the monitoring architecture, you need to have performed the configuration in the central monitoring system (CEN) and in the monitored components.

If you are centrally monitoring AS ABAP with release NW 7.1, you need to use a central monitoring system with release NW 7.0 until the general release of SAP NetWeaver 7.1.

Detailed information about configuring the central monitoring system is available in the Monitoring Setup Guide. You can obtain the document on the SAP Service Marketplace, in the area SAP NetWeaver 7.0 – Operations (http://service.sap.com/OperationsNW70), in the Monitoring area. The information that you require is in section 5.2 of the document.

Adjusting the Templates for the Monitors

In the alert monitor, monitors group thematically connected monitoring data in a tree structure (see alert monitoring tree). The monitors of the SAP CCMS Technical Operations Templates set include the most important data for the regular monitoring of your system. This set was created specifically for administration tasks.

If you are using the SAP NetWeaver Administrator for the central monitoring of your system landscape, you can use these templates directly. Monitoring data is displayed for all systems that are in the associated System Landscape Directory (SLD) and that are identified as centrally monitoring by CEN.

If you use the Alert Monitor for the central monitoring of your system landscape, you need to adjust the monitor definitions for your IT landscape; the steps required to do this are described in the following procedure:

Adjusting Monitored Systems

In their delivery status, the monitors of the SAP CCMS Technical Operations Templates set show only nodes for the local system:

Modify the monitor definitions so that the values of all desired monitored systems are displayed.

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       1.      Start the alert monitor by entering the transaction code RZ20, and activate the maintenance functions by choosing Extras → Maintenance Functions On.

       2.      Copy the SAP CCMS Technical Operations monitor set by selecting the set, choosing the  Copy button, and entering a name of your choice for your copy.

 

You need to copy the set first, since you cannot change the delivered standard monitor set.

       3.      Expand your copy, select the desired monitor, and choose the  Change button. The Edit Monitor Definition screen appears.

       4.      The definition consists of subtrees for different rules (see Rule Nodes: Rule Description and Use). Expand the subtrees and search for the rule CCMS_DEFINE_R3_SYSTEMS. This rule specifies the systems from which values are to be displayed in the monitor.

The nodes for availability monitoring with CCMSPING and GRMG (see Availability Monitoring) always belong to CEN for technical reasons. Therefore, the rule CCMS_DEFINE_R3_SYSTEMS does not exist in these subtrees.

       5.      Select the rule and choose  Change. On the next screen, Edit Rules Nodes, choose  Continue >>.

       6.      In the Parameter Values group box, enter the desired systems as the value for the parameter R3System. You can enter the following values when doing so:

Entry	Meaning
<CURRENT>	Local system
<ALL>	All systems that are known to the monitoring architecture as monitored systems
<Any name>	System group; you can define a system group yourself that contains the desired systems (see Maintaining System Groups)
J2EE_Systems	System group containing all Java systems that are registered with CEN through CCMS agents

       7.      If you do not just want to display values fort he local system, you should activate the indicator Display virtual summary nodes in the monitor. This means that the values for each monitored system are displayed in a separate subtree.

       8.      Choose the  Continue >>button, and save the changed monitor definition after you have changed all relevant rule nodes. The monitor could now look like this, for example.

Adjusting Monitored Values

You can also extend the monitors to include other monitoring values or remove parts of the monitoring from the monitors. For more information about this, see Editing Monitors and Monitor Sets. 

Setting Up Notifications for Alerts

If you want to be automatically informed about alerts in the above monitors, assign a notification as an auto-reaction method to the corresponding MTE classes. You do not then need to call the alert monitor to be informed about a possible alert. We recommend that you forward the alerts to the Alert Management (ALM) for your notifications. ALM offers more communication channels and extended notification functions, such as representative rules, notification variants (for example, during the day by e-mail, during the night by SMS), subscription to alert topics, and escalation mechanisms. To forward CCMS alerts to Alert Management, you only need to copy, adjust, and assign the corresponding auto-reaction method. For detailed information, see the section Configuring a Method to Forward Alerts to ALM.

Note the following with regard to auto-reaction methods, however:

●      By default, an auto-reaction method is always executed in the system in which the corresponding alert occurs. This also means that you need to perform the configuration of the method in each monitored system.

●      An alternative is the central auto-reaction method. This means that the method is no longer executed in the local system, but rather in CEN. You therefore only need to make the required configuration settings in CEN (see Setting Up Central Auto-Reaction Methods).

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