Wednesday, February 23, 2011

How to start and stop SAP (ECC) System from SAP Management Console?

SAPMMC.MSC which is located in the folder C:\WINDOWS will be executed with the help of mmc.exe which is located in the folder C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32. You can find a shortcut of SAP management console on the desktop. This shortcut will be created during the installation of central instance of SAP system.




We can open this SAP Management console in three ways. They are



1. We can open by double clicking on Shortcut which is located on desktop “SAP Management Console”

2. Browsing to the folder C:\windows\ and double click the file SAPMMC.MSC

3. Executing “MMC” from run – File – Add/Remove Snap-in – Click Add – Select SAP Systems Manager – Click Add – Click next in the general settings screen – Click next in the security screen – Add SID and Instance – Click Add – Click Finish – Click OK – Click File – Click Save – Select the location – Give the name of the console – Click Save. You will have the new console which can be used to start SAP system.



We will get a SAP Management console after proceeding with any of the above steps. We can observe that there will be two panes, Left and right. The follwing procedure can be follwed to start SAP System.



1. Locate the SID of the SAP system and select – Right Click – Click Start (We can also use Right Arrow symbol which is located at top tool bar to start SAP System)

2. Type the password of the user which we have given at the time of SAP installation and click OK

3. It will take some time to system up and running. This time will be depends on the configuration of the computer

4. We have to wait until the colour of SID changes to green

5. We can check the system has started or not by checking ABAP WP table which can be accessed by clicking + at SID and click ABAP WP Table. We will get the information about all work processes in right pane.

6. We should get the status column should be in ‘wait’ and start column should be in ‘start’ for all work processes

Now we can start SAP GUI from desktop to login to the SAP system using client, user name and password. SAPGUI can also be started from RUN command. The command is “sapgui hostname System Nr”



For stopping SAP System we have to do following steps.



1. Logoff the SAP system by clicking system – logoff

2. Click Yes in the dialog box with the message “unsaved data will be lost. Do you want to log off”

3. Close the SAP Logon pad

4. Open the SAP Management console and select SID – Right Click – Click Stop – Click Yes in the dialog box – Give the password if it asks

5. Wait until the colour comes to grey

6. Check the ABAP WP Table “status” and “Start” columns. They should be down and no respectively after some time and information will be disappeared after colour of the SID changes to grey

7. Close the SAP Management console



In this way we have start whenever we start computer and stop the SAP system whenever we shut down the computer. This can not be done frequently in real time. Once in a month or quarter we do stopping and starting SAP system for maintenance purpose.



Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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ccms monitoring

Use

The SAP Computing Center Management System (CCMS) provides a special alert monitor for SAP Exchange Infrastructure.
You use this alert monitor to monitor the ABAP and Java components (including the Business Process Engine) of your Exchange Infrastructure centrally, and to identify different categories of system errors and application errors in the various interfaces and interface namespaces of the components involved.
Besides the information on the monitored components, the alert monitor also provides information on the Structure linkqRFC queues relevant for SAP Exchange Infrastructure. These guarantee that XML messages are processed exactly once and, if necessary, chronologically in Exchange Infrastructure.
The CCMS Alert Monitor has the following advantages:
      Automated, central monitoring that does not require any administration, except where alerts occur.
      Proactive monitoring by means of alerts that are triggered as soon as a particular threshold value is not reached, or is exceeded
      Support for problem solving through predefined analysis functions, which you can use to remove the cause of an alert in a particular component.

Integration

CCMS Alert Monitoring is not part of SAP Exchange Infrastructure but a part of the SAP Web Application Server. For more information about CCMS Alert Monitoring and other CCMS monitors, see Structure linkAlert Monitor.

Prerequisites

To work with the CCMS Alert Monitor for Exchange Infrastructure, you must have fulfilled the following prerequisites:
      You have used the transaction CCMS Customizing Monitoring Architecture (RZ21) to create the system group ExchangeInfrastructure_Systems in the system in which you want to run the central monitoring of all components of your Exchange Infrastructure.
This system group defines which systems (components) are displayed in the top node of the tree in the monitor for Exchange Infrastructure. To create the system group, there are two steps:
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                            a.      Choose Technical infrastructure ® Configure Central System ® Create Entry for Remote System from the menu and maintain all systems (components) of your Exchange Infrastructure.
                            b.      Choose Technical infrastructure ® Configure Central System ® Maintain system groups and define the system group ExchangeInfrastructure_Systems comprising the systems created previously.
If you are setting up monitoring in a local system that is part of the system group, you can include it in the group by specifying the system ID.
For further information about system groups, see:  Structure linkSystem Groups in the Alert Monitor.
      You have activated CCMS monitoring by using the configuration parameter of the same name from the MONITOR category.
      You have started the alert monitor by calling the transaction CCMS Monitoring for Exchange Infrastructure (S_B6A_52000011) and are in the Current status view. In this view, you can see the tree structure of your monitor and monitor the current values of your monitoring attributes.
Note
You can also call the CCMS Alert Monitor for Exchange Infrastructure by calling transaction CCMS Monitoring (RZ20). In this monitor, expand the node SAP CCMS Monitor Templates and select the template Exchange Infrastructure.
The Runtime Workbench also gives you the option of navigating directly to the CCMS Alert Monitor for the Exchange Infrastructure. To do this, go to Component Monitoring and choose CCMS.

Features

Alerts are a central element of monitoring. They report malfunctions quickly and reliably, for example, when a particular threshold value is exceeded or not reached, or a component is inactive for a specific length of time. The alerts are assigned different colors to make them easier to read (yellow for a warning and red for a problem) as well as a numeric value indicating the severity of the malfunction. There are two views for displaying the data:
      In the Current status view, you can see the tree structure of your monitor and monitor the current values of your monitoring attributes. If you want to analyze an alert, double-click the relevant monitoring tree element.
      The Open alerts view enables you to check what has happened in the system since the last check. In this view, you can check whether yellow or red alerts (warnings or problems) have occurred. To navigate to the Structure linkAlert Browser from this view, double-click an alert. This browser displays all alerts that have not yet been analyzed in a flat hierarchy.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

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