Displayed Information for a Managed Object
A managed object is an entity in your system or business process landscape; in System & Application Monitoring it is also a container for metrics, events, and alerts. For each displayed managed object (see Navigating in the Directory Browser), the following attributes are displayed in the Directory Browser in six tab pages:
Metrics
A metric is a measurable entity that through a value and other attributes, such as threshold values, has a valuation or a status - for example, a response time is a metric. The following attributes are displayed for the metrics of the selected managed object:
Attribute
Description
Category
The
Category
specifies to which of the following areas a metric belongs:Exception
,Configuration
,Performance
,Availability
andSelf-Monitoring
.Metric Type Name
The
Metric Type Name
is a descriptive short text that specifies what is measured in the metric.Metric Group
A
Metric Group
combines multiple metrics that share important attributes or semantics.
ExampleThe average response time per transaction is a metric group; a metric type that belongs to this group is the average response time in transaction SE80.
End of the example.Monitoring Application Case
The
Monitoring Use Case
specifies the topic to which the metric belongs, such as the technical system monitoring, BI monitoring, or PI monitoring.Activation Status
The
Activation Status
specifies whether a metric is monitored by System & Application Monitoring (Active
) or (Inactive
). To change the activation status of a metric, in theSAP Solution Manager Configuration
(transaction SOLMAN_SETUP) in the step
System & Application Monitoring
System Monitoring
Template Management
, create a customer template, and in the Metrics
tab, set theActive
flag.
NoteThe
Managed Object Variants
flag is displayed in the Directory Browser header. In valid configurations, only theActive
flag is currently shown, so only active metrics are shown. If you reset this flag, only inactive metrics are shown.End of the note.Change Status
The change status is only displayed if you activate the
Display MEA Change Status
flag for the selected managed object, in the of the directory browser header. It specifies whether the settings for the metric were delivered by SAP or were made by the customer. NoteSince the determination of the MEA change status is time-consuming and does not always function reliably, we recommend that you do not activate the corresponding indicator.
End of the note.If you select a metric, its details are shown in 5 tabs, under the metric table:
Tab
Description
Overview
Data collection
This tab shows technical details about collecting the metric, i.e. which data providor determines the value of the metric, using which technology, how often. The collection parameters which the data providor needs to determine the value, are also output.
Data Usage
This tab shows which components (
Alerting/Monitoring
orBI Reporting
), use this metric. Technical details of the use of the metric in BI Reporting are also shown:The metric data can be enhanced or adjusted to the reporting requirements by a
BAdI Implementation
.The
Target in BW
specifies the DSO and InfoCubes into which the values are to be written.Granularity
specifies the retention period of the metric values in BW.
Threshold value
This tab shows how the delivered values of the metric are rated (status
green
,yellow
orred
). These settings may depend on the Work Mode.Other
This tab contains technical information, particularly IDs, for the metric. This information can be used, for example, for troubleshooting (see Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure Analysis Tools)-
Events
An event is a relevant status change of a managed object. It is based on a measured value, or the valuation of one or more metrics or another event. Events can therefore occur in hierarchies and forward their status to the superordinate event in each case.
Attribute
Description
Event Type Name
The name of the event type is a short text that describes the event.
Managed Object Type
Managed Object Name
These attributes specify the managed object type (such as technical system) and the managed object itself (such as the technical system PRD) to which the selected event belongs.
Event Type
This attribute contains a technical classification of the event.
Rating
The rating specifies how the status of the event is calculated from the status of the metrics or events that contribute to this event. Possible rating rules are:
"Worst case" rule
Average rule
"Best case" rule
"None" rule
Alert assigned
This indicator specifies whether an alert is immediately generated when this event occurs.
Propagated Result
Category Event
These technical attributes specify whether, in the event hierarchy, an event is received from underlying events (
Propagated Event
) or propagated to events higher in the hierarchy (Category Event
)Monitoring Use Case
Category
Activation Status
Change Status
These attributes correspond to the attributes with the same names on the
Metrics
tab page.If you select an event, its details are shown in 5 tabs, under the event table. This is analogous information to the metric (see above).
Alerts
An alert represents a situation in which the user has to react. It is always triggered by precisely one event.
Attribute
Description
Alert Type Name
The name of the alert type is a short text that describes the alert.
Severity
The severity of the alert is a number between zero and nine that specifies how much of a problem the alert indicates (the larger the number, the more critical the alert).
Monitoring Use Case
Category
Activation Status
Change Status
These attributes correspond to the attributes with the same names on the
Metrics
tab page.If you select an alert, its details are shown in 7 tabs, under the alert table:
Tab
Description
Overview
This tab shows basic alert type information and a short alert description.
Event/Metric Type Assignment
This tab shows which metric and event types are assigned to this alert type.
Messages
This tab specifies whether messages which are created automatically when an alert occurs, are assigned to the alert type. You specify this in the SAP Solution Manager Configuration (transaction SOLMAN_SETUP), in the following steps:
Set the default settings in
System & Application Monitoring
System Monitoring
Configure Infrastructure
Default Settings
Set the template or alert type-specific settings in
System & Application Monitoring
System Monitoring
Template Management
The help text for this step describes the settings.
Notifications
This tab specifies whether notifications, which are sent automatically when an alert occurs, are assigned to the alert type. Specify this in the SAP Solution Manager Configuration (transaction SOLMAN_SETUP), as specified above.
Third-Party Components
This tab specifies whether third-party tools are assigned to the alert type. Specify this in the SAP Solution Manager Configuration (transaction SOLMAN_SETUP), as specified above.
Auto-Responses
This tab specifies whether auto-responses, which run automatically when an alert occurs, are assigned to the alert type. Specify this in the SAP Solution Manager Configuration (transaction SOLMAN_SETUP), as specified above.
Other
This tab contains technical information, particularly IDs, for the alert type. This information can be used, for example, for troubleshooting (see Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure Analysis Tools)-
Templates Used
A template combines types for metrics, events, and alerts and their attributes. SAP delivers templates of this type that you can copy or change yourself.
For every monitoring application case there is usually exactly one used template (templates for different application cases do not overlap in terms of content). The only exception to this is if you have made changes to the general template yourself for a specifc managed object. In this case, there can be two used templates for one application case, one of which will have the name of the managed object. This template contains the values that have been specifically assigned to the managed object itself; these values are then used in preference to the values from the general template.
Attribute
Description
Template Name
The name of the template is a short text that describes the template.
Version
There can be different versions of a template, but only one of these is active. The number of the active version is specified here.
Used By
Used At
These attributes specify when and by which user the template was assigned to the selected managed object.
Monitoring Use Case
Category
Activation Status
These attributes correspond to the attributes with the same names on the
Metrics
tab page.Managed Objects: Tags
There are tag, whose values characterize various types of managed objects. These tags are given values in SAP Solution Manager configuration. The Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure uses the values of this tag to display values for the object in user interfaces.
ExampleThe object type
Technical Instance
has the following three tags:Tag Name
Description
EXT_SID
System ID (e.g.
PRD
)INS_NAME
Technical Instance (e.g.
host23_PRD_11
)SYS_TYPE
Technical system type (e.g.
ABAP
)End of the example.Collector Parameter Variables
Data is captured in the monitoring and alerting infrastructure, by data collectors, which either report new values independently, or are queried by the infrastructure at regular intervals. Parameter values give the collectors the information about the managed objects required to collect data from them.
This tag shows the names and values of these collector parameters, grouped by monitoring use cases.