====== Overview ======
===== What is Pro.Monitor Cockpit ? =====

  * Pro.Monitor cockpit is a **monitoring** and **integration** solution primarily focused on SAP technologies and the associated databases and environments
  * Its purpose is to monitor the **health** and **performance** of these applications to ensure the highest quality of service and facilitate operations and maintenance.
  * We named it **Cockpit** because it will provide visibility and control over large and complex environments, via various applications such as **Alarm console**, **Overview cockpit** or **Dashboards**
  * Pro.Monitor cockpit works with **Collectors** which are dedicated to specific technologies, such as SAP. 
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===== Main features =====

  * **Applications**: Pro.Monitor cockpit can be seen as an application platform. Each application will help to manage device landscapes
    * Cockpit overview: Visualize your entire landscape in a single page
    * Alarm console: Manage all the problems detected on the devices
    * Inventory: Manage all you device properties and connectivity
    * Device dashboard: In depth visibility of a particular dashboard.
    * More applications will appear as we go.
  * **Monitoring**:
    * A whole section is dedicated to the definition and control of the monitored environments
    * This is where you will define the structure of the environment and the connection parameters
    * You will also define and control how those environments will be monitored
    * Predefined monitoring profiles are available for each type of system
  * **Administration**
    * Manage teams and users: Users can be grouped by teams to facilitate the control over what a user can see and do
    * Manage authorization profiles allowings to finely control which applications a user can use and which devices he can control.
    * Business rules: Create rules to define actions based on some incoming events
    * Plugins: Easily connect Pro.Monitor cockpit with external third parties
    * Monitoring library: A **preconfigured** set of monitors based on monitoring best practices and designed to be efficient and simple to use.
    * Collectors: Agents that **remotely** connect to the systems, collect, analyze data and generate monitoring information such as alarms, metrics and reports.
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===== Monitored technologies =====

Pro.Monitor cockpit is a generic platform that can cope with any kind of devices.\\
The provided SAP collector can monitor the following applications:
  * **SAP NetWeaver ABAP/Java**
  * **SAP S/4HANA**
  * **SAP HANA**
  * **SAP Business Objects**
  * **SAP ASE database (Sybase ASE)**
  * **Oracle database**
  * **MSSQL database**

===== Architecture =====
  * The Pro.Monitor cockpit application relies on the following components:
    * A **central instance** hosting most key components such as UI, databases and agents control.
    * **Collectors** responsible for collecting information on the target systems.

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**Central Instance:**
  * The central instance provides the main application services:
    * A REST API to consume Agent's data and provide a WEB user interface.
    * Databases to store configuration, metrics, reports, metadata and all generated information.
    * A central control bus to manage remote agents.
  * The central instance can be hosted on premise or via SAAS.

**Collectors:**
  * Collectors are agents that will locally collect and analyse information from the devices
  * Then consolidated information is sent back to the central instance
  * Collectors are a very efficient way of monitoring systems within isolated environments without exposing them.