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The performance monitor is part of the Monitoring section in the navigation bar.

The monitor displays an hierarchical overview of all monitors, and their current severity. The severity is propagated upwards through the hierarchy so a parent monitor shows the highest severity of its children.

The Monitor consists of two panes:

  1. The monitor pane displays a hierarchy of all monitors.

  2. The detail pane displays run-time data of the currently selected monitor.

Three types of monitors are shown:

  1. Nodes - A monitor that can contain sub-monitors.

  2. Checks - A monitor that defines conditions upon which events are to be raised.

  3. Links - A monitor that links to another monitor (node or check).

SAP System Monitors

If you have connected SAP CPS to SAP Systems, then the default monitor-tree contains monitors for the SAP Application Servers. To import the bare monitor tree from transaction RZ20, you need to fill in the XAL tab on the SAP System object and import the monitors. To import individual CCMS monitors, that you access via transaction RZ20 in SAP GUI, you need to submit the SAP_ImportCcmsMonitors job definition.

Severity

The severity gives you information about the extent of the issue and is indicated by a number ranging from 0 to 100. SAP Monitors that are not monitored by SAP CPS have a special severity of -1, which means that you have to import the monitor with the job definitionSAP_ImportCcmsMonitors if you want to use it.

The primary function of the monitor is to check no monitors have a severity above 0. You can create Dashboard dials from within the monitor to get a graphical representation of the monitor values.

Actions

Monitor Nodes support the following actions:

Action

Description

Export

Export the monitor node

Edit Security

Edit Security of the monitor node

Expand All

Expand all monitor nodes

Procedure

To monitor components perform the following tasks:

  1. Navigate to   Monitoring → Monitors   to get an overview of all monitors.

  2. Choose the Refresh button to update the monitor.

  3. Choose the [+] icon to expand the monitor nodes and links and show the child monitors. Choose the [-] icon to collapse and hide the child monitors.

  4. Choose a monitor to show the monitor details in the lower detail pane.

To create a dashboard dial:

  1. Navigate to   Monitoring → Dashboard  .

  2. If you do not have a dashboard, you need to create one:

    1. Choose Create from the context menu, fill in a name and choose Save & Close.

  3. Select your dashboard in the drop-down menu.

  4. Navigate to   Monitoring → Monitors  .

  5. Expand the monitor-tree until you have located the leaf-node you would like to use for the dial.

  6. Choose Create Dial from the context menu.

Values

Field

Description

Parent Monitor Node

The parent monitor node this monitor belongs to.

Name

The unique name of this monitor.

Description

The description of the monitor.

Comment

A comment about the monitor.

Actual Severity (Node and Check monitors only)

The current severity of the monitor, or -1 if it has not been set before.

Remote Id (Node and Check monitors only)

Unique identification of the monitor in the remote system.

Linked Monitor (Link monitors only)

The linked monitor (Node or Check monitors).

Monitor Events (Node and Check monitors only)

Event to be raised when a monitor reaches a particular severity.

Monitor Conditions (Check monitors only)

A monitor condition defines when a problem is raised.

Monitor Values (Check monitors only)

A monitor value is a numeric, string or timestamp value used to define monitor conditions.

Creation Time

The creation time of this monitor.

Last Modification Time

The last modification time of this monitor.