This chapter describes the Insights setup and maintenance. When setting up Insights Core to monitor the system landscape, start by adding the systems to the monitoring pool and the setup of Monitoring Profiles.
Once the profiles have been created, they can be assigned to each system and monitoring can be started. The first run of the Insights Monitor will have an empty monitoring system pool.
Add a new system
To add your systems to the Monitor, follow these steps:
- In the main application toolbar, click on the
Add new system for monitoring button or press (Shift + F1). A popup for adding a new system will appear. - In the Destination field, type the name of the RFC destination. For creating a new RFC destination, click on the Maintain RFC button and the system opens Display and maintain RFC destinations transaction for this purpose.
For monitoring the central system in which the Monitor is installed, type NONE in the RFC destination field.
3. After typing in the RFC destination field, click on the Check RFC button. The system checks the connection to the remote system. If the connection is present, the system displays additional information about the remote system in the fields below. If there are connection problems or if the remote system does not have the Insights collectors package installed, the system displays an error message.
Adding a new system
4. If the connection is correct, then choose a System type.
5. In the Maximum time for RFC PING in the seconds field the user can set up a maximum time for RFC PING. If the remote system does not respond after the maximum time that is set, then it is highlighted that the system is not accessible with a red light icon in the monitoring pool.
Recommended value for RFC PING is at least 10 seconds also in the case of a fast connection.
The system automatically detects the system types available for monitoring and displays them at the bottom.
6. Check whether all the information is correct. Finally, click on the green button Add system or press F8 function key. The new system will be added to the monitoring system pool.
New system in the monitoring system pool
Once the system is added, you should start the monitoring. You can start this by clicking on the 'Start default monitoring'.
Create a Collector job (for monitoring)
For the monitoring of a remote system, it is necessary to run a Collector job for monitoring. This Collector job is scheduled and periodically run as a background job. To create a Collector job, do the following steps:
- In the main menu click on the
Create new Collector job button or press the function key F9.
The system displays a popup window known as Collector Job Manager. This will have two sections namely Monitoring plan (for creating/ editing Collector jobs) and Running collector jobs (providing an overview of already created/running Collector jobs).
Collector job Manager
To create a new Collector job, the user should define the following:
- Definition: Here the user provides the System ID to be monitored and assigns a KPI profile.
- Execution: The user may choose to run the Collector job immediately after the Collector job is (re)started or choose a time and date indicating when to begin.
- Period: The User defines the time interval between runs of the Collector job.
- Retention time: Determines how long data will be stored on the Central monitoring system. After the retention time has elapsed data will be deleted with the exception of data which was saved with a time stamp that belongs to a specified time interval.
When the Collector job has been created/ edited, the user should click the (Re) Start Collector job button. A notification will appear in the bottom right-hand corner.
Successfully started monitoring Collector job
Assign a monitoring area to a satellite system
When a satellite system is successfully added to the list of monitored systems, assignment of the monitoring area is done automatically. In special cases (e.g. upgrade to a new Insights version with new monitoring areas) we need to assign the monitoring area manually by following these steps:
- In /DVD/MON transaction for Insights monitor go to 'System Settings' (Shift + F5).
- Select the system that you would like to assign as a monitoring area.
- Double click on 'System mon. areas' in the dialog structure tree.
- Click on 'New Entries' (F5) button.
- Add the new Monitoring area.
6. Press 'Enter' and save changes.
With the assignment of the new monitoring area to a monitoring system it will be possible to collect area specific KPIs.