Creating and Deleting Monitoring Pauses 

Use

In the configuration of availability monitoring with CCMSPING, you can deactivate the monitoring of certain systems during certain specified times, such as during the weekend or for maintenance work. These monitoring pauses can also recur periodically.

Note that during monitoring pauses, not only the availability monitoring with CCMSPING, but all monitoring and alerting for the relevant system is deactivated. More information: Administration of Monitoring Pauses in the Alert Monitor.

Prerequisites

The prerequisites fort he central monitoring system (CEN) and the monitored systems are described in Administration of Monitoring Pauses in the Alert Monitor.

Creating a Monitoring Pause

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       1.      Choose CCMS → Configuration → Alert Monitor, or call transaction RZ21.

       2.      The Monitoring: Properties and Methods screen appears. Choose Technical Infrastructure → Availability Monitoring → Configure CCMSPING Availability Mon.

       3.      Select the desired systems by choosing the folder symbol for the corresponding systems.

Note that a system is only correctly selected when the entire line is highlighted:

       4.      If you have only selected one system, or want to create different monitoring pauses for the selected systems, choose the Pauses button and then Create Monitoring Pause.

If you want to create an identical monitoring pause for the selected systems, choose the Pauses button and then Create Uniform Monitoring Pause.

       5.      The Maintain Time not Monitored screen appears. You can create monitoring rules here for monitoring pauses that occur once and for periodically recurring monitoring pauses. The following options are available to you for periodically recurring monitoring pauses:

○       Weekly Repetition

○       Monthly Repetition

○       Other Repetition Period; in this case, there are a large number of options available to your for individually creating periodically recurring monitoring pauses

       6.      For documentation reasons, enter a text for the reason for the monitoring pause.

       7.      Specify whether only the alerting for the relevant system is to be deactivated during the monitoring pause (in this case, values continue to be measured as before, but no alerts are triggered), or it the collection of the values is also to be deactivated

       8.      Save the monitoring rule that you have created. Once you have successfully saved your rule, the system displays a success message and your rule appears in the list at the bottom of the screen. If you have selected multiple systems, and do not want to create a uniform monitoring pause, repeat these steps for all selected systems.

To change a monitoring rule, delete the rule from the list (this is explained below), and recreate the rule.

       9.      To leave the screen, choose Cancel ()

Deleting a Monitoring Pause

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       1.      Choose CCMS → Configuration → Alert Monitor, or call transaction RZ21.

       2.      The Monitoring: Properties and Methods screen appears. Choose Technical Infrastructure → Availability Monitoring → Configure CCMSPING Availability Mon.

       3.      Select the desired systems by clicking the folder icon for the relevant systems, and choose Pauses and then Create Monitoring Pause.

       4.      The Maintain Time not Monitored screen appears. The table shows the next monitoring pauses to be activated. For rules with recurring pauses, in each case the next five pauses due to this rule are shown. Select a monitoring pause for which you want to delete the associated rule, and choose  (Delete).

       5.      Confirm the message that all future pauses based on this rule will be deleted.

Result

The selected systems are not monitored during the specified times, that is,  no values are collected for these periods and/or no corresponding alerts are generated, in accordance with your settings.

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