Monitoring SAP systems has always been a major hurdle in every job I’ve held. SAP has its own monitoring tools, primarily CCMS, but extracting metrics and configurations from the SAP world has always been a challenge. In the past, I used SNMP traps configured in CCMS to send alerts when thresholds were exceeded. However, this…
Read MoreMonitoring the SAP HANA DB consists of executing the check_hana.sh script that uses SAP’s hdbclient SQL client to connect to the HANA DB. Included in the script are queries to HANA to find out its status. Requirements But let’s look at the Configuration steps first. Create a user with the role MONITORING You then need…
Read MoreThe Challenge: The automatic setup of around 80-90 SAP-Servers running several releases and flavors of SAP software in NetEye 4 by: Automatically importing SAP hosts, databases and instance definitions Automatically applying a set of basic services to each level of monitoring (OS, database, and SAP Basis) depending on the host, database and instance definitions imported…
Read MoreSAP Solution Manager monitors the behavior of SAP Instances and sends notification email in case of misbehaviors. Integrating this solution with NetEye the benefit is the possibility to have the mails sent to a user on NetEye Server and thanks to a procmail script rows are inserted into the MessageConsole Application. The script could be like this: #! /bin/sh # export…
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