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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 Note

You set-up the Monitoring History at the same time as IT performance reporting.

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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.

  • Extraction framework – transfers the performance data from the monitored systems to Business Intelligence; for information about Extraction Framework administration, 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, which contains a summary of the steps required.

Basic BI configuration

To be able to set-up IT perfomance reporting, you need a live BI, in which the basic BI configuration has been performed. The set-up for General Settings in the BI Client is described in the SAP Solution Manager implementation guide, under   Basic Settingngs  .

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. As the extraction framework (see above) is now available to transfer performance values from the monitored systems into BI, 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 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.

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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   Cross-Scenario Settings  .

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 further information, see the SAP Solution Manager implementation guide, under   Cross-Scenario Settings   Central CCMS Set-Up   Register Systems for Monitoring   Monitoring Database KPIs  .

Restrictions

In the following reports, values for monitored Java systems is only transferred if the Java system has release SAP NetWeaver 7.10:

  • Java Sessions & Threads

  • Java Garbage Collection

Activities

IT performance reporting set-up is described in the SAP Solution Manager implementation guide, under   Scenario-Specific Settings   System Monitoring   Reporting  .

More Information

See also SAP note 1223266, which contains current information about setting-up IT performance reporting.