(DI-1708) Datavard Insights setup
This chapter describes the Datavard Insights TM setup and maintenance. When setting up Datavard Insights TM to monitor the system landscape, start by adding the systems to the monitoring pool and the setup of which KPIs are to be collected and what events are to be alerted. These configurations will be saved in profiles, once the profiles have been created, they can be assigned to each system and monitoring can be started. The first run of the Datavard Insights TM Monitor will be with an empty monitored systems pool.
Figure 6: First start of the Datavard Insights TM Monitor
Add a new system
To add your systems into the Monitor, follow these steps:
In main, 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 Datavard Insights TM collectors package installed, the system displays an error message.
Figure 7: Adding a new system
4. If the connection is correct, then choose a System type.
5. In the Maximum time for RFC PING in 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 monitoring pool.
Recommended value for RFC PING is at least 10 seconds also in the case of fast connection.
The system automatically detects the system types available for monitoring and displays it 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 monitored systems pool.
Figure 8: New system in the monitored systems pool
Once the system is added, you have to start the monitoring. You can start this by clicking on the 'Start default monitoring'.
Delete system from monitoring pool
Will remove monitored system from monitoring pool as well as all its Collector jobs and will delete all collected data including saved intervals. Before deletion, you should stop the Collector jobs linked to the monitored system.
Figure 9: Removing a monitored system from monitoring pool
Figure 10: Warning if Collector jobs are not stopped before deletion
Figure 11: User confirmation before final removal
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).
Figure 12: 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 the Collector job will store collected monitoring data. With older data, retention time is then automatically deleted with exception data that is collected during saved time intervals.
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.
Figure 13: Successfully started monitoring Collector job
Reporting of KPI chart
It is possible to generate an offline report of KPI charts. The report generator is accessible from main menu or press Ctrl + F5.
Figure 14: Accessing Report Generator
In the report generator, you can define the range of KPI's and Systems that you want to view in the report. The report is generated into HTML and this can be saved in frontend PC, in application server or can be sent via email. The report generator can be scheduled as background job to be run on regular basis and for providing a report status for occurred events.