Prefered way to check availability of SAP system

[Former Member]

Hello!

We would like to monitor the SAP ERP productive system from SAP Solution Manager.

Our current solution is based on CCMSPING agent that has been installed on the server of the satellite system.

This solution is not the ideal, because of the CCMSPING stops itself periodically.

Are there other ways, besides CCMSPING agent, to check availability of SAP system?

- User Exit

- Check of RFC connections, etc.

Thank you very much!

[alexander_maetzing]

Hi,

if it is only ONE system to be monitored: In a similar situation we developped in the satellite system an RFC which was called periodically every second minute from the central monitoring system. We used that RFC to collect application specific data for which no data collector for CCMS existed. If you create a data collector and an MTE for that call, you have some sort of availability monitoring.

But in my eyes the ccmsping is still the best way. Why did you install it on the satellite system and not at the Solution Manager (which for my experience is the "natural" way)?

Best regards, Alexander

[Former Member]

Hello!

Many thanks for your reply.

We would like to use CCMSPING agent installed locally on the server of SAP Solution Manager.

Our problem is that we try to monitor satellite system that is resided in other network.

So have to use sap router to reach this system.

When we try to monitor this system with SAP router from SAP Solution Manager we get the error:

CCMSPING communication error: Cannot access message server

Do you have experience setting up CCMSPING with SAP Router and with satellite systems that are resided on other network?

Thank you!

[alexander_maetzing]

Hi,

I set up once such an archtecture but didn't have any problems. As far as I can remember we had to maintain the saprouttab with two different entries, one for the ABAP stack and another for the Java stack. For both the server of the message server must be used. In addition the port number of the ABAP needn't to be mentioned explicitely (a '*' was sufficient to include all ports). For the Java message server the port must be named in detail (81 plus instance number).

As I said, with these settings we had no problem.

Best regards, Alexander

[Former Member]

Hello,

Simple way to Monitor availability for multiple systems (ABAP) as below:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/EN/42/a1cfb0fc4111d194bf00a0c93033f7/content.htm

Or you can create a Simple RFC destination and monitor that destination in CCMS as below

OSS Note 1069130

Method :- CCMS_RFCDest_Availability_Col

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/70531389-0c01-0010-2a95-c01952476...

Let us know anything else you required

Regards

Shailesh Mamidwar

[Former Member]

Hi

please check the posiblites here [Enabling the Availability Monitoring of J2EE Engine |http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/f0/49fd3f0521c842e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm]

[/people/dirk.jenrich/blog/2006/07/18/availability-monitoring-of-html-pages-with-grmg-lite|/people/dirk.jenrich/blog/2006/07/18/availability-monitoring-of-html-pages-with-grmg-lite]

and [Availablity monitoring of services|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/80f0bfa0-d411-2a10-9593-b130222c82c1?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true]

but either the case you require CCMS agent.

I am nt sure about the user exits

Jansi