How-to guide: Monitoring of standalone Hosts
This guide explains how you can enable monitoring for standalone hosts in SAP Solution Manager
HOW-TO GUIDE: MONITORING OF STANDALONE HOSTS
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1 2 3 4 CREATE TECHNICAL SYSTEM FOR HOST................................................................................... 3 MANAGED SYSTEM SETUP ........................................................................................................... 7 SYSTEM MONITORING SETUP..................................................................................................... 10 SYSTEM MONITORING APPLICATION ........................................................................................ 12
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This document describes the steps needed to setup monitoring of stand-alone host. Please remember the prerequisite for Technical Monitor setup is Diagnostic setup, which should be finished prior to Technical Monitor setup. The following steps are necessary which are described in detail in separate chapters 1.) You need to create a technical system of type “Unspecific” which contains information about the standalone hosts you want to monitor 2.) You need to perform the Managed System Setup for your new technical system. 3.) You perform the System Monitoring Setup for your new technical system 4.) You can review the results in the System Monitoring application 1 CREATE TECHNICAL SYSTEM FOR HOST 1. To create Technical System directly via Technical System Editor, firstly open System Configuration wizard via transaction: SOLMAN_SETUP. And then, select “Managed System Configuration” -> “System Operations” ->”Create System” to launch “Technical System Editor”. Alternatively, you can use transaction LMDB to open “Technical System Editor” directly.
2. In “Technical System Editor”, choose Unspecific Cluster System (UNSPECIFIC) in dropdown list and click “Next” to continue.
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3. In “Define System”, input the system name and assign “others” for technology type. The “Central Host Name” can remain empty. Click “Next”.
4. Click “Save” to finish Technical System creation. And then, the Technical System Editor dialogue will pop up, which allows us to define more information about our technical system.
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5. In “Define Header Data”, view the information and ensure it is correct. Click “Next” to continue.
6. In “Assign Database”, click “Next” to skip this step.
7. In “Define Technical Instance”, click “Add” and fill out Server Name, Technology Type with “Others” and Host. After completing, choose “Ok” and “Next”.
8. In “Maintain assigned Software” step, click “Add”. In pop-up windows, input “Solution Manager Standard Custom Product 1.0” as search condition. And then, click “Add” to complete software component assignment. Finally, click “Save” to finish Technical System creation. To view the detailed definition click “Display Navigation Tree”.
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9. Select "Installed" button.
10. In “navigation tree view”, you can evaluate and adjust the definition. If everything is ok, click “Save” to finish technical system setup.
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MANAGED SYSTEM SETUP 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Open the configuration wizard for SAP Solution Manager via transaction: SOLMAN_SETUP Select “Managed System Configuration. Select system type of the system we want to configure. Typically, choose “Unspecific” type. For Unspecific based systems, we need to select the Technical System for configuration. Select “Configure System” to lunch configuration wizard.
6. In Select Product, click “Edit” to enter edit mode and ensure statues indicator is green. Click “Next” to finish.
7. The check prerequisites checks if all requirements for configuring diagnostics are fulfilled on the managed system. Select “Execute” to automatically perform the check. If there are some errors and warnings, such as Managed System does not meet the Diagnostics prerequisites etc, you can simply ignore. The detailed results can be accessed through the “Show” link in the log table after selecting the line item for the check. Click “Next” to jump in the next step. 8. In “Assign Diagnostics Agent” step, please choose the agent we setup on the managed system and choose “Assign” to attach the agent to the current Solution Manager.
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9. In “Enter System Parameters”, choose Introscope EM in Enter System Parameters, which SMD agent will collect data from.
10. In “Enter landscape Parameter” step, click next to skip for host system setup. 11. The last step is to configure system by selecting “Execute All”. Ensure all the Status indicators are green. In case of red indication, please open “Show” link to see the detailed message.
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SYSTEM MONITORING SETUP 1. Firstly open System Configuration wizard via transaction: SOLMAN_SETUP. And then, select “Technical Monitoring” to lunch System Monitor setup wizard.
2. Go to Step 5 “Define Scope” and locate the Technical System you created by filtering, then click “Next” to enter the next step “Setup Monitoring”.
3. In “Setup Monitoring” step, Click “Apply and Active” -> “All managed objects” to execute Monitoring setup.
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SYSTEM MONITORING APPLICATION 1. Open System Monitor workbench via transaction: SM_WORKCENTER. Choose the “System Monitor” application and select in the “Type Selection” Hosts
2. Search for the host you want to monitor, select it and start the Host Monitoring application