Anyone got PIMON working in solman 7.1?

[Former Member]

Hi, all

We are on Solman 7.1 SP8. Applied the latest SP8 cumulative notes already and installed the latest solman content(version 11).

But PIMON is returning so many bogus warnings that it is totally unusable. We tried to hook up to PI 7.3.1 java stack only. The managed system setup, technical monitor and PIMON are all finished.

Here are the big list of problems:

1) PIMON alert - java system http availability - [RC=600] URL http://xxx:8131/startPage called unsuccessfully

>The page is actually working great! The port 8131 is the message server http port, by the way. I don't know why PIMON chooses that port and I was actually surprised that the URL actually works.

2) PIMON alert - java instance http availability - [RC=600] URL http://xxxx:53000/startPage called unsuccessfully

> Again, this URL works great and the PI system is up and running. This is a strictly URL ping and you thought a high school graduate can program this.

3) Business system self check always fail:

<FeatureCheck><Feature name="SLD_Reachable"><Description>Can the SLD be reached?</Description><Result>NOT_OK</Result><Details>SLD ping gets exception: Error when opening an RFC connection (CPIC-CALL: '</Details></Feature><Featurename="Own_BS_Defined"><Description>Does the Integration Engine know thebusiness system?</Description><Result>OK</Result><Details>Business system name = BS_SD7_110, Role = Application System</Details></Feature><Feature name="Consistency_SXMS_CONF_ITEMS_SLD"><Description>Are roles in SXMS_CONF_ITEMS and SLD consistent? </Description><Result>OK</Result><Details>Role = Application System</Details></Feature><Feature ...

> All the jobs are scheduled with the same frequency in business system SD7(ECC6.0 EHP6 server). Again, I don't understand why PIMON is complaining.

4) component check on business systems always fail on SLD check

> Transaction SLDCHECK is successful on the business system SD7. Another terrible bug?

5) Message overview errors out when I click on the "!" button. It is giving the following error:

EX: Extractor 8E3285F11C06ED01A66BD15F7332EA8F raised error: EX: ERROR

when executing RFC to SXMS_AGG_GET_XPI_STATUS_DEL

> Not sure if this is a program or something. I don't find it in the ECC server nor solman. But our PI system has no abap stack. Maybe the PIMON got confused?

6) I have setup a few alert rules in the PI message monitoring and import them into solman. Yes, I have already read the SDN doc. The PIMON is showing "green". Only problem is that when I failed a message in the PI server, I don't see anything in the alert inbox and no notification was received. Is there anyway to troubleshoot this? Boy, the old message monitor on PI RWB was so much easier compared to this piece of garbage.

Please share your experience if you have started working on the Solman PIMON.

Thanks,

Jonathan.

[Former Member]

Jonathan,

Any update from SAP About this ?

After implementation of SP8 we are not facing the same issue for #6 - PI message monitoring not showing in alert inbox

In response to you Issue # 1 and 2 is this on a Linux or AIX System

#3 Should be resolved by adding the SAP Netweaver CE 7.31 Template to the managed system ( this is not done by default )

Jack

[Former Member]

Hi Johathan,

We are running successfully PIMon with SM 7.1 SP7, we haven't face any issues as you given above. I faces issues during configuration, but all of them were sort out by the PIMON troubleshooting wiki

PiMon_TroubleshootingGuide - Technical Operations - SCN Wiki

check my experience sharing here Time To Move On!!! Try Central PI Monitoring wi... | SCN

Most of your above entry related to network kind of port, rfc, hence please make sure you done the managed system configuration without any red entry, your DIA agent fine, extractors are working fine? You can check better for DIA agent troubleshooting.

Please check

Thanks

Jansi

[Former Member]

Hi, Jansi

We haven't faced nearly as many issues in SM7.1 SP7 as SP8 ... talking about latest is not really the greatest. Is your PI dual stack or single stack?

I have already gone through the following links:

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/TechOps/PiMon_Frequently+Asked+Questions

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/TechOps/PiMon_Home

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/TechOps/PiMon_TroubleshootingGuide

I don't see anything related to my issues:

- Issue 1 and 2 are almost the same thing.

- Issue 3 and 4 have been fixed.

- I believe issue 5 and 6 are related. The closest I found is OSS note 1031773. But that is an old note for dual stack system. The java system parameter is already set as documented in the note. However, the extractor PI MESSAGE FLOW MONITORING (CORE) still failed with

EX: ERROR when executing RFC to SXMS_AGG_GET_XPI_STATUS_DEL

Anyhow, these issues are back breaking and PIMON cannot be used in our environment at this point. We have opened a "high" ticket with SAP support and it finally got assigned to somebody after a week. So far, nothing helpful we got yet.

Thanks,

Jonathan.

[bxiv]

I can't attest to how many issues may have with PIMon but we have conversed on issues with PIMon in the past, perhaps he can offer some insight?