Active and Inactive Monitors 

Use

The concept of active and inactive monitors allows you to activate only the monitors that you need and to deactivate the others, thus improving the overall performance of the system.

 Integration

You can modify the monitors’ state by using the SAP NetWeaver Administrator.

In the Visual Administrator, you can view the current state of the selected monitor, but you cannot modify that state.

Features

By default, all monitors (except a predefined set of active monitors) will be deactivated. Inactive monitors have no history and do not pool data from the monitored resources automatically. These monitors can retrieve information only on demand from the Monitoring Service runtime tree in the Visual Administrator. You can activate any deactivated monitor, but you cannot deactivate monitors that participate in the Java system reports.

Deactivating the unused monitors aims to minimize the impact of the Monitoring Service on the CPU and memory consumption, and to reduce the monitoring history by not storing the history for monitors that are rarely used.

There is also a mechanism to (de)activate many monitors in the Monitoring Tree at a time. The activation operations can be applied to both individual tree nodes and whole branches.

Activities

·        Checking and Modifying the Monitor State

·        Modifying the State of a Set of Monitors