(DI-1902) Menu Buttons

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Jul 11, 2018
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The main menu of the Monitor has action buttons with a basic functionality.

Main menu buttons

These buttons are:

Refresh monitor (F5) – update information in the tree-list of systems, their servers and in all tabs.

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".


 


Start report generator transaction (Ctrl + F5) - opens new transaction for generating summary report from monitoring base on some selections of KPIs, areas (system ID, server names, profiles), snapshot interval. Generator works with predefined template and allows to use own template as well (created in W3 repository - transaction SMW0). Generated HTML output is possible to compress as ZIP file and store it in application server, frontend PC or to send it via e-mail.

Maintain RFC destinations (F6) - Run the transaction SM59 for maintaining RFC destinations in the system.

Job view (Shift + F7) – Run the transaction SM27 for displaying background jobs.

Distribution list (Shift + F8) – Run the transaction SO23 for maintaining list of user emails, SAP user names, private distribution list and shared distribution list for notification of events and messages.

System settings (Shift + F5) – maintenance of parameters for monitored systems, time intervals, groups of messages used in the messages tab, messages notifications. The maintenance is described in the separate section "System definitions maintenance".

Monitoring settings (Shift + F2) - covers all these cases:

  • KPI Definitions - maintenance of collectors and their setups, parameters and inputs. Continue with maintenance of KPI definitions, their association to the collector, to profiles, to events and to groups. In addition, KPI groups maintenance is here, which are used for displaying of KPI groups tree in the main GUI.
  • KPI collectors and detail tables list
  • Profile definition - maintenance of profiles and association of KPIs, events, collector's parameters, collector's setups, and collector's inputs to the profile.
  • Event definition - maintenance of events and setup of their association to the KPI and notification for these events.

The maintenance is described in the separate section "Monitoring settings maintenance".

In User settings, you can adjust the settings for the monitor behavior and graph display on user's level.