Set-Up IT Performance Reporting 
IT performance reporting displays the development of the most important monitoring data of the monitored systems through time, centrally, to identify potential problems early.
This section describes the steps you must perform to be able to use IT performance reporting in the Solution Manager System Monitoring work center.
Note
You set-up the Monitoring History at the same time as IT performance reporting.
Integration
Technically, the IT performance reporting reports are based on:
CCMS monitoring infrastructure – gets most of the performance values in the monitored systems, and saves them temporarily, locally in a monitor segment.
Extractor framework – transfers the performance data from the monitored systems to Business Intelligence; for information about administering the Extractor Framework, see Administration (Common Tools).
Business Intelligence (BI) – saves and reorganizes the values collected, permanently, with all BI data management and display features.
Prerequisites
The prerequisites are described in the SAP Solution Manager implementation guide. Summary of steps required.
Basic BI configuration
To be able to set-up IT perfomance reporting, you need a live BW, in which the basic BW configuration has been performed. You perform the relevant setup in the SAP Solution Manager configuration (transaction SOLMAN_SETUP, Basic Configuration area).
Configuring the Central Monitoring Infrastructure
Earlier versions of IT perfomance reporting (until SAP Solution Manager 7.0 SP15) required a central monitoring system (CEN), in which all monitored systems are configured in the CCMS monitoring infrastructure. Since the Extractor Framework (see above) is now available to transfer performance values from the monitored systems into BW, this is no longer necessary. The performance values still come from the CCMS monitoring infrastructure, but the data is read directly from the local system.
Note
You can still transfer the performance dat of the monitored systems via a central monitoring system. This can be useful if you already have a correctly-configured central monitoring system, in which CCMS has the connection data to the monitored systems.
Availability and database KPI data is an exception to this rule, because it is only in the central monitoring system (see below). To configure these functions, the systems to which this data semantically belongs, must be configured in the monitoring infrastructure. If you have not yet configured CEN, configure both functions in the SAP Solution Manager system.
Configuring Availability Monitoring with CCMSPING
Two IT performance reports show the availabiity of systems and instances. This data is collected by the availability agent CCMSPING. The set-up is described in the SAP Solution Manager Implementation Guide, under 
Technical Settings 
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Configuring Database KPI Monitorings
In one report, you can display the development of the size and growth of all monitored databases through time. For this data to be available centrally, you must set-up monitoring in the CCMS set-up. For more information, see the SAP Solution Manager implementation guide, under Technical Settings 
Central CCMS Configuration Register Systems for Monitoring Monitoring Database KPIs .
Activities
To set up IT Performance Reporting, start the System Monitoring work center, and choose Setup Configure IT Performance Evaluations .
The system opens a new window, Setup and Configuration. The description of the configuration is available directly in the system, in various help texts, which relate both to the setup as a whole and to the different subareas.
More Information
See also SAP note 1223266, which contains current information about setting-up IT performance reporting.