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Add a new system for monitoring (Shift + F1) – displays a popup window for adding a new system through the defined RFC R/3 connection. The process of adding a new system for monitoring is described in the separate section "Add a new system".
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Create new Collector job (F9) – with this button, you can create, assign a profile and start Collector job for the monitoring of system. The process of starting the monitoring is described in a separate section called "Start monitoring".
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- SID – determine system ID for which Collector job has been created.
- Profile – which customizing is in use for the Collector job, i.e. what KPIs is being checked?
- Job status – informs about status of background job of Collector job. Background job can have these statuses:
- Not running – No scheduled job.
- Scheduled – Job schedule run created for Collector job.
- Waiting – Collector job informs that a job is waiting for free work processes for running.
- Running - Collector job is currently running.
- Period value / Period type – informs how often a Collector job is running.
- Button – If a Collector job is scheduled, the user can click stop button is required which stops and cancels the scheduled job.
- Button – If Collector job is not running, the user can click the start button to run the Collector job.
- Execution – Determine if Collector job is executed immediately or scheduled on specific date and time.
- Start date/Start time – date and time of initial run of the Collector job.
- Retention time – specifies how old collected data will be stored by Collector job. Data older then retention time are automatically deleted with the exception data, which are collected in saved time intervals.
- Background Job Name/button – name for background job of Collector job. Clicking on this button will execute transaction SE37 with displaying of this job.
- Job last status/Last status icon – specifies about status of last background job run. Can have these statuses:
- Finished - specifies that the last background job of Collector job was successfully finished.
- Aborted - specifies that the last background job of Collector job was terminated by error or cancelled by user
- Not running - specifies that the background job of Collector job was not started before.
- Delay[s] – specifies of any background job delay in seconds while waiting for a free work process.
- Run date/Run time – specifies the date and time in which background job of Collector job is started
- Duration – specifies how long the background job of Collector job was running.
Figure 78: Collector jobs tab
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Depending on the number of KPIs, these charts are not only placed on one page but on several pages. The user can switch between pages using the and buttons found on the top left corner of the chart displayed in the KPI tab.
The KPIs, which are displayed in the grid layout, is determined by selected KPI group or specific KPI in KPI tree. Each group consists of KPIs and other subgroups. The correct page is set automatically.
Figure 85: Displaying KPI charts in grid layout by selecting KPI in KPI tree
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By using the KPI mix tab, the user can see the behaviour of more KPIs together, by graphically comparing dependencies between all measured KPIs, for example, the dependence between the CPU load and work processes.
When the KPI tab is selected, the user may then check to display an active KPI in KPI tree (note that a system/server must also be selected in the system tree). Once a KPI is checked, it will be displayed as a chart of mixed KPIs and assigned to a new coloured series.
When KPI or system/server is unchecked, the appropriate series will be removed from the chart. Allowing the user to create and customize a comparison chart based on individual needs. All KPI series are portioned in the same manner similar to the KPI tab charts specified by KPI definition.
Figure 86: Checked KPI in KPI mixer
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The messages displayed are dependent on the systems/servers that are checked in the system tree.
Towards the top of the Messages tab, there is a list box in which the user can filter the message group. By default, all messages are displayed and in addition there are the standard ALV operations such as sorting, filtering, aggregating etc.
Figure 87: Monitor Messages
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This tab contains additional information collected from the monitored systems. All this information of the same kind is categorized and placed into one table. By clicking on a concrete table, all the information is displayed in an ALV list from the table. With this ALV list of messages, it is possible to do all standard ALV operations like sorting, filtering, aggregating and so on.
Figure 88: Detailed information from monitoring
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With this ALV list of messages, it is possible to do all standard ALV operations like sorting, filtering, aggregating and so on.
For more detailed view on event, just double click on the line in ALV and detailed output will be displayed.
Figure 91: Detail output