(DI-1802) The main GUI

Owned by Veronika Hunorova (Unlicensed)
Feb 28, 2018
3 min read

Description

The main GUI layout is divided into four basic parts.
The menu bar is on the top of the screen with function buttons.
On the left side are two tree lists:

  1. With systems that are monitored.
  2. KPI groups where all the KPIs are collected.

On the upper right side is a block for time selection, which defines the time interval for displaying collected information and where the user can save specific time intervals.
The rest of the right part layout is a tab-list that is composed of the System information tab, Collector jobs, KPI charts, the KPI mixer, the Messages tab, the Details tab and the Alerts tab. All these parts and tabs are described in the next sections of this manual.

  

Figure 64: Main GUI layout

Menu buttons

The main menu of the Monitor has action buttons with a basic functionality.

 Figure 65: 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".

Figure 66

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".


 Figure 67


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.

Figure 68

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 behaviour and graph display on user's level.