• With an ABAP connector, you can connect to a system via the message server or via one of the application server.
  
• Only one ABAP connector is necessary to monitor a whole ABAP system. It will give access to all components that can be monitored by the ABAP monitors
  
• To create connector, there are two steps:
  • Create a user profile in SAP and register it in Redpeaks
  • Create and set connector parameters

• Redpeaks will use RFC protocol to connect to the ABAP stack
• Note: It is mandatory to install SAP JCO library if you want to connect to an ABAP stack system

• Firewall ports must have been opened allowing to reach message server (36XX) AND EACH application servers (33XX)
• Use SMMS transaction to find out message server port
• Message server will redirect connection to most available application server, if it can't be reached, then connection will fail
• Therefore application servers must be reachable by hostname.
• If FQDN is required, then register application server hostnames in /etc/hosts
• Important Note: For “Cross clients” monitors, it is advised to use a connector to client 000 only.
  • However, you might want to connect to production clients to cover non “Cross clients” monitors.

• User profiles can be reached via Systems→ SAP users
• Once created, the user profile can be selected in the connector form
• Note: A user profile is by default associated with a company . You can explicitly set a profile to be cross companies. The effect is that it will be selectable from connectors of any companies.
• The corresponding user must be created in SAP as well with the appropriate authorizations
• Use SU01 and PFCG transactions
  • Download the authorization profile in Admin→Admin configuration→Upload/Download
  • From PFCG, use Role→Upload to install the profile
  • Important: Edit profile authorization data and press Generate
  • Use SU01 to create a System user and assign it to the authorization profile
  • Set default parameters as below (Important to avoid data parsing issues)

• Select the system in the Systems tree and choose “Add connector” from its contextual menu, then select the ABAP type.
• The default ABAP connector form will allow you to configure a connection to the message server.
  • Host: the hostname or IP address of the ABAP message server
  • Secondary Host the secondary hostname or IP address for failover, separated by a semicolon (;)
  • Group: the logon group (can be set to SPACE by default)
  • Client: The client to which you want to connect (We suggest 000)
  • User: The user profile to use for the connection
  • MS Port: The port of the message server (Usually 36XX): You can use SMMS transaction to find message server port number

• See Custom timeouts

Use advanced settings to use alternate connection method or parameters:

• SAP router: If the connection requires to use a SAP router, you can set it here.
• Gateway host and port: To specify a gateway
  • GW host: Host name of the SAP gateway
  • GW port: Service name of the SAP gateway
• TP name & host: To use an external RFC server.
  • TP Name: Path and name of the external RFC server program, or program ID of a registered RFC server program
  • TP host: Host name of the external RFC server program
• Force connection on AS number
  • Activate this setting when you cannot connect via the message server.
  • Set the mumber of the application server (AS) you want to connect (and use AS hostname as connector hostname)
  • With this method, the connection will always happen on the same AS
• Force Application server IPs
  • Some monitors will connect on each application server for collecting its data. It will use discovered AS hostnames for the connection.
  • In some cases, the hostnames from those AS cannot be resolved from the Redpeaks server.
  • In that case, you can force to use a specific IP for each AS, instead of its discovered hostname.
  • In this setting, you can associate one IP per application server

• SNC lib path: Full path and name of third-party security library that provides secure network connection service.
• Partner name: Secure network connection name of the application server (for example, p:CN=R3, O=XYZ-INC, C=EN)
• SNC my name: Indicates the secure network connection name. This property overrides the default secure network connection partner. Token or identifier representing the external RFC program
• More details about SNC

Press Save & Test to save the profile and check the connection is working