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 qRFC 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 Alert 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:  System 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.

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 Alert Browser from this view, double-click an alert. This browser displays all alerts that have not yet been analyzed in a flat hierarchy.