(DI-2308) Central System Setup

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Aug 14, 2023
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Before you will set up the central SAP system, make sure that CrystalBridge® Monitoring transport requests were imported successfully. If CrystalBridge® Monitoring is installed on the central and satellite systems according to the Installation procedure, you might continue with the setup of the central system and its monitoring.

In this section:

To avoid any authorization issues during the setup of the central system, please make sure that the administration user (current dialog user who is executing this setup) has been assigned an authorization role /DVD/MON_ADMIN. If this role is not assigned, you might be experiencing some issues due to the missing CrystalBridge® Monitoring authorizations during this setup.

Set up the central SAP system

If everything is imported as expected, you might follow these steps to set up the central monitoring.

It is highly recommended to create a system user and assign him an authorization role /DVD/MON_ADMIN before you start this setup. This user will be then set in the relevant Startup Wizard step.

  1. Execute transaction /DVD/MON.

    1. If no license is installed yet, install the valid CrystalBridge® Monitoring license as described in chapter Install license.

  2. Configure all steps from Startup Wizard (if not configured yet). You might find more details about each wizard step in chapter Startup Wizard.

    1. In the Central requirements step, set the created system user with /DVD/MON_ADMIN authorization role. This user will be then automatically used for executing the CrystalBridge® Monitoring background jobs. Otherwise, the current dialog user will be used instead. If the currently used dialog user expires or won’t be valid anymore in the future, the monitoring might not work as expected. That is the reason why we recommend using the system user.

At this point, the central system is configured and prepared for monitoring. You need to choose a monitoring scenario and add new system(s) based on this scenario.

Monitoring scenarios

Choose the deployment scenario based on your landscape and monitoring preferences:

  • Monitoring of the central SAP system

    • This scenario is monitoring the central SAP system itself.

  • Monitoring of the satellite SAP systems

    • This scenario is monitoring the remote SAP system through a defined RFC Destination.

  • Monitoring of the non-SAP systems

    • This scenario is monitoring the non-SAP systems (e.g. SAP Business Objects, SAP PI).

  • Monitoring of the external databases

    • This scenario is monitoring the external databases based on configured DB Connection on the central system.

Set up the monitoring on the central system

  1. Add a new system for monitoring (based on selected monitoring scenarios).

    1. You might find more details about each system type in the chapter Add a New System.

  2. Start default monitoring for newly added system

  3. Display the collected KPIs for the monitored system as described in chapter Display KPIs.