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ABAP instance memory

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ABAP instance memory Purpose This monitor will check the following memory metrics:

- Extended memory usage
- Heap memory usage and peak usage
- paging and rolling memory usage

The monitor will send an alarm if any of the memory usage exceeds the thresholds.

ABAP instance response time

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ABAP instance response time Purpose ABAP response time is one of the key metric to measure system performance as experienced by the users. It is important to detect any performance drop in order to react before too many users get impacted. This monitor will watch for the response time of DIALOG, SPOOL and UPDATE tasks. It will also focus on specific database response time and steps rate to watch for system utilization. You can be notified with an alarm when a performance drop is detected or …

ABAP locks

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ABAP locks Purpose This monitor will look for locks on table objects and generate alarms if too many locks are waiting since a given time Configuration hints Use the surveillance table to adjust the monitoring settings: - Wait time - Max number of locks. You can filter on client and table name.

ABAP shortdumps

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ABAP shortdumps Purpose A short dump is generated when a program ends unexpectedly. This is a serious indicator that something went wrong during its execution and that some business processes might be impacted. This monitor will watch for all short dumps occurred on the system.

Application logs

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Application logs Purpose This monitor will focus on the application logs of the system. You can monitor log entry status, as well as the messages contained in a log. To enable the surveillance, you will have to define a list of objects and sub-objects that you want to watch.

Batch inputs

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Batch inputs Purpose This monitor is dedicated to the monitoring of batch inputs. It will look for batch input sessions with error status occurred within a period of time. Notifies with an alarm when a batch input session is in error Configuration hints

Custom CCMS monitoring

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Custom CCMS monitoring Purpose The CCMS from SAP can contain thousands of metrics and alarm configurations. It has often been widely customized and one may want to keep using its configuration. This module has been designed to discover metrics and alarm configuration from the CCMS and to re-use it as is. Alarms generated by the CCMS can simply be detected and propagated, or CCMS configuration can be imported in Redpeaks and extended from there.

Custom SapControl monitoring

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Custom SapControl monitoring Purpose This monitor will give the possibility to extend the surveillance of Java systems to additional metrics. Java metrics naming and availability change a lot from system to system. This monitor will discover metrics from the SAP management console and let you customize how you want to monitor them. Combined with the use of configuration templates, the visibility of the monitoring is greatly improved.

Database backups

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Database backups Purpose Backups are very important in case of disaster recovery and must be monitored closely. This monitor will look for backup age, size, status and duration for Oracle, MSSQL and DB2. Configuration hints For each type of backup, you can define a customized monitoring. The monitor will check the backup status, duration, size (MSSQL only) and occurrence. Use the surveillance table to adjust the monitoring settings: Thresholds, severity, filters, etc

Database size

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Database size Purpose This monitor is dedicated to the monitoring of SAP database size. Configuration hints The probe will watch for data and log used space as well as current log mode. For Oracle and DB2 databases, it will also monitor the tablespaces used space. A first surveillance table will be dedicated to the configuration of global database used space monitoring. A second one will be for the tablespaces Use the surveillances table to adjust the monitoring settings: Thresholds, severit…

DB Exclusive locks

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DB Exclusive locks Purpose If too many exclusive locks are held for a long time, performances of the whole system can be impacted. This monitor will help to watch for such situations and generate an alarm if one is detected. Configuration hints Create a rule in the table and define the maximum time an exclusive lock must be held before generating an alarm.

Dispatcher queues

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Dispatcher queues Purpose This monitor is dedicated to the surveillance of the dispatcher queues. It can monitor the number of requests waiting in the queues at a given time, and the number of requests written within a given period of time. Configuration hints

ICM status and usage

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ICM status and usage Purpose The ICM allows the SAP system to communicate toward other systems and must be available at all times. This monitor will check the status of the ICM as well as utilization of connections, threads and queues. Configuration hints

IDOC exchange monitoring

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IDOC exchange monitoring Purpose This monitor is dedicated to the monitoring of IDOC messages. It will look for ERROR or WAITING status of messages received with a given period of time. You can customize the monitoring by creating specific rules depending on the client, the message type, the partner and the direction.

Instances availability

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Instances availability Purpose This monitor is dedicated for surveillance of ABAP application servers (AS). It will send an alarm if an AS cannot be reached, if it is not registered on the message server or if is has been restarted. Configuration hints

Java components status

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Java components status Purpose This monitor will check the status of java components discovered via the SAPControl protocol. If the status of any component is in error, it will send an alert Configuration hints Create a new line in the table and set the appropriate severity to use when a component become unavailable.

Java instances status

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Java instances status Purpose This monitor will check the status of java instances discovered via the SAPControl protocol. If the status of any instance become unavailable, it will send an alert Configuration hints Create a new line in the table and set the appropriate severity to use when an instance become unavailable. You can use the feature field to identify specific services

Java processes status

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Java processes status Purpose This monitor will check process status as seen by the SAP management console, using the SAPControl protocol. It will send an alarm if an expected process is not running. Configuration hints Create a rule to define the alarm severity to use to notify when a service is not running.

PI/XI channels

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PI/XI channels Purpose PI/XI communication channels must be monitored to detect transmission errors. This monitor will watch for channels with error status. Configuration hints This monitor has to be assigned to a Web portal connector to the target SAP system, with user credentials having access to the PI/XI channels view.

PI/XI consumer cache status

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PI/XI consumer cache status Purpose The goal of this monitor is to detect when a consumer cache has an error status Configuration hints This monitor has to be assigned to a Web portal connector to the target SAP system, with user credentials having access to the PI/XI channels view.

PI/XI messages ABAP

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PI/XI messages ABAP Purpose This monitor is dedicated to the monitoring of PI/XI messages status of ABAP stack instances. It requires to be associated with an ABAP connector to the target SAP system Configuration hints With this monitor, you will have the possibility to detect and to be notified when a message or a group of messages has a particular status. Use the surveillance table to define the monitoring settings. You can filter in or out certain types of messages by using Client, Sender…

PI/XI messages JAVA

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PI/XI messages JAVA Purpose This monitor is dedicated to the monitoring of PI/XI messages status of Java stack instances. It will detect messages with an error status and report with alarms and metrics Prerequisites In case of the user management engine (UME) referred to a data source served by an ABAP client stack, the user account to access PI/XI information in the web portal must meet the following prerequisites: - The web client connection user must be created in the client of the UME …

Process Chains monitoring

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Process Chains monitoring Purpose This monitor is dedicated to surveillance of SAP process chains BI. It will watch for execution error status, duration, delay and job occurrence. You can set general rule to watch any process chain and be notified as soon as any fails. You can also configure specific rule for a given job to monitor its real schedule or duration.

Queued RFC

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Queued RFC Purpose This monitor is dedicated to the monitoring of QRFC queues. It will watch for: - Queue error status - The number of current entries - The number of entries older than a specified age Configuration hints The surveillance can be customized to match a specific queue, client, destination or direction. Use the table to configure the monitoring settings: Thresholds, severity, direction, client, etc

RFC Destinations availability

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RFC Destinations availability Purpose This monitor will check that a destination can be reached from all application servers, using either a RFC ping or an authentication, based on RFC destination configuration. Configuration hints Only one destination per line

SAP buffers

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SAP buffers Purpose This monitor will look for SAP buffers used space, hit ratio, directory used, swap rate and quality. Hit ratio, swap rate and buffer quality metrics can be computed since the startup of the instance, or within a period of time.

SAP change settings

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SAP change settings Purpose Clients correct configuration is important to guaranty system integrity against changes. This monitor will check that system and clients change modes are matching the expected configuration. Configuration hints You can define the expected global change mode of the SAP system and make sure to be notified as soon as the mode changes. This can be used primarily to make sure that your production system cannot be modified. For each client or for each type of client rol…

SAPconnect (SCOT/SOST)

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SAPconnect (SCOT/SOST) Purpose SAPConnect handles message sending from SAP via different media like FAX, EMAIL and PAGING. Message sending can be very important for some processes and must be monitored accordingly. This monitor will watch for messages with ERROR or WAITING status and notify when problems are found.

SAP Jobs monitoring

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SAP Jobs monitoring Purpose This monitor is dedicated to surveillance of SAP background jobs. It will watch for job error status, duration, delay and job occurrence. You can set general rule to watch any job and be notified as soon as any fails. You can also configure specific rule for a given job to monitor its real schedule or duration.

SAP transaction times

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SAP transaction times Purpose This monitor is dedicated to the monitoring of SAP transactions average execution time per step. You can define the transaction, task and period for which you want to analyze the response time. The monitor will then generate an alarm if the response time is over a threshold.

SAP transports

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SAP transports Purpose Transports are used to propagate changes across systems. It is important to detect when a transport is in an error state in order to reprocess it. This monitor will watch for failed transports and notify as soon as one is detected

SAP users

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SAP users Purpose The goal of this monitor is to follow the amount of connections on each application server and to detect when the number of connected users is above a threshold. you can differentiate interactive, RFC and plugin users and apply specific threshold for a given application server.

Spools

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Spools Purpose This monitor is dedicated for the monitoring of spools and spool requests: Used number and size for the spools, status and waiting time for the spool requests Configuration hints This monitor will fetch the spool requests that occurred since the last check (ie since last 15 min if it runs every 15 min) An exception is made for the requests in waiting state, that are fetched to a maximum limit of one week in the past.

System Logs

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System Logs Purpose Lot's of problems can be detected by checking the system logs. This monitor gives the possibility to regularly check within a period of time if a given log pattern can be found in sys log. When a problem is detected, you will be notified by an alarm containing the line of logs itself, or a count of lines matching the pattern.

Transactional RFC

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Transactional RFC Purpose This monitor is dedicated to the monitoring of TRFC. It will watch for: - The number of TRFC with a given error status - The TRFC entries older than a given age. You can customize the monitoring for a specific direction, destination, function/program or user.

Update requests

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Update requests Purpose This monitor is dedicated to the monitoring of SAP updates. It will look for updates with ERROR, NOT_COMPLETED or INCONSISTENT status. When an update or a group of updates with such status is discovered, the monitor will generate an alarm

Update service

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Update service Purpose This monitor is dedicated to the monitoring of one of the key service of the NetWeaver instance: the updates service. Sends an alarm as soon as the service is not running. Configuration hints Simply select the level of severity of the generated alarm and if you want to generate metrics.

Work processes

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Work processes Purpose Work processes are the actual workers in SAP. It is important to check their state, availability and run time. This monitor will watch work processes of all kinds, with the ability to tune the monitoring for specific tasks or cases. It will detect long running processes, stopped or private processes, compute the usage ratio, and notify as soon as a threshold on those metrics is reached.