Monitoring (Overview) 
Monitoring with SAP Solution Manager
SAP Solution Manager is the central tool for monitoring mixed system landscapes, containing both ABAP and Java components. SAP Solution manager provides you with the following work centers (or functions) for monitoring your systems and business processes:
System monitoring
You can view and edit alerts from CCMS in the Alert Inbox. You can use Proactive Monitoring to check the status of your systems before any alerts are generated.
Business process monitoring
Business process monitoring enables you to monitor business processes distributed across complex system landscapes. You can also monitor the interfaces between your business process steps.
Root cause analysis
Root cause analysis enables you to spot errors and performance bottlenecks actively, before they can affect your business process flow. If errors occur, you can identify the problem areas in your system landscapes and initiate appropriate measures. The end-to-end change analysis function offers you an overview of the changes made to configuration parameters in the managed systems. Using this function you can find out, for example, why a development system behaves differently from the associated production system.
Monitoring with Computing Center Management System (CCMS)
An alternative to SAP Solution Manager for the central monitoring of a system landscape is the monitoring architecture of CCMS (Computing Center Management System). The purpose of the monitoring architecture concept is to make all required information available in one central monitoring system.
Problems are displayed in the alert monitor in the central system as soon as they occur. Moreover, all log files are accessible from a central location, thus reducing the time required to identify and remedy errors. Additional configuration steps allow advanced technologies such as automatic notifications, meaning that administrators no longer need to actively investigate systems for alerts.
Since CCMS is based on the Application Server for ABAP (AS ABAP) usage type, you can find information on the administration of central CCMS Monitoring under Monitoring.
For monitoring purposes, all other usage types and standalone engines have their own monitoring tree in the central CCMS Monitoring System, where their data is displayed. Some of these usage types and standalone engines also have their own monitoring tools.
For information about the CCMS connection to the individual usage types and standalone engines, and/or the availability of special monitoring tools for these usage types and engines, see the sections listed below: