Wizard-Based Configuration of
the SAP NetWeaver Administrator
Purpose
You use the
SAP NetWeaver
Administrator (NWA) for landscape-wide monitoring and administration. It
runs as an application on AS Java. You need to perform various configuration
steps both in CEN and in the monitored systems for monitoring and
administration.
You can call the NWA with the URL http://<host>:<port>/nwapi.
The following procedure describes the configuration of a NetWeaver Administrator for landscape-wide monitoring and administration using the Configuration Wizard. There are two configuration tasks with which you can set up central monitoring:
· Configure NWA
In this task, you perform the configuration steps to set up the NetWeaver Administrator for landscape-wide monitoring and administration on a double-stack system. The necessary steps to configure central monitoring are performed as part of this.
· NWA Add Managed System
In this task, you perform the necessary configuration steps to monitor a remote system with the NetWeaver Administrator for landscape-wide monitoring and administration. Perform this task in the central system for each monitored logical system. You can only perform this task once you have performed the task Configure NWA in the central system.
One of the steps that you perform in these tasks is to create or maintain an administration landscape. This term is explained briefly here.
An administration landscape is a group of systems that are monitored by exactly one central system. A system can also only belong to one administration landscape.
§ When you execute the task Configure NWA, the central system is added to the Administration landscape. This assignment happens in the SLD to which the CEN is connected.
§ When you execute the task NWA Add Managed System, the monitored system is added to the administration landscape to which the central system belongs.
· The two configuration tasks above include the configuration of availability monitoring of Java-based applications with GRMG (see Configuring GRMG for Java-Based Components).
However, this step is also available to you as a separate configuration task, Standalone Setup for GRMG. Perform this task if you want to perform the relevant configuration step more than once for each monitored system. This is especially the case if you want to activate more than once, but not all available GRMG scenarios.
You want to activate only the GRMG scenarios for AS Java and the Enterprise Portal for a monitored system. You register this system with the NetWeaver Administrator for landscape-wide monitoring and administration as usual with the task NWA Add Managed System. In the context of this task, you select the J2EE entry in the Available Scenarios dropdown list.
· The configuration task Configure NWA includes the configuration of the DB Admin Cockpit (see Configuring the DB Admin Cockpit).
However, this step is also available as a separate configuration task, NWA Add Managed System to CENTRAL for DBACockpit monitoring. Perform this task is you want to administer more than one database centrally.
Integration
To be able to perform the above configuration tasks, the following prerequisites must be fulfilled:
· Both the central system and all monitored systems are already in the SLD with which CEN is registered (see SLD Wizard-Based Configuration).
·
The configuration
task NWA
Add Managed Systemrequires
that the availability agent CCMSPING is registered with CEN. (More
information:
Installing
Availability Agent CCMSPING) The correct sequence is therefore:
a. Task Configure NWA
b. Installation of the availability agent CCMSPING
c. Task NWA Add Managed System
Features
In the context of the NetWeaver Initial Setup (more information: Configuration Wizard, you configure, among other things, the SAP NetWeaver Administrator; this configuration consists of two parts:
· Configuring NWA for Landscape-wide Monitoring and Administration