Difference between Data Provider and extractor.

[Former Member]

Hi

Can someone help me in understanding difference between data providers and data extractor.

I have gone through some documents but not able to get the exact difference between them.

What is the exact role of data provider and extractor with respect to sap solution manager.

Is data provider== Data extractor?

Thanks,

Vijay

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Vijaya,

From my perspective the Data Providers are responsible for collecting metric values from the monitored objects on the managed sources systems and sending these to the Solution Manager Monitoring and Alerting Infrastrucure.

Data extractors on the other hand are the reporting objects which are defined on the BW part of Solution Manager and can be enabled by configuring some monitoring scenario's. Once these data extractors are enabled, they will use the data from the "Data Providers" (see above) to setup nice BW reportings on the Solution Manager monitoring dashboards.

I hope this answer helps you.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Wouter,

Thanks for your usefull information.