RFC Destinations availability

Purpose

This monitor will check that a destination can be reached from all application servers, using either a RFC ping or an authentication, based on RFC destination configuration.

Configuration hints

Only one destination per line must be declared, you cannot use regular expression in the filter. You can use the load destination button to discover available destinations registered in a system.

Use the strict button to indicate if it is mandatory for a destination to be reachable from every application server. You can exclude an application server from the check if necessary.

Surveillance table

Parameter	Description
Active	Use this field to activate or deactivate a line of configuration.
RFC Destination	Defines the destination to check.
Instances to exclude	A coma separated list of application servers: Use that field if there are AS from which you don't want to check the destination
Check Mode	AUTO : the probe will detect if the destination needs authentication or if a simple PING is enough. NO_AUTHENTICATION : The check is done via a simple PING.
Strict	If selected, the connection to the destination must work from all application servers. Otherwise, a connection working from at least one AS is sufficient.
Severity	The level of severity of the alarm generated by this line of surveillance.
Auto clear	If checked, the alarm will be cleared as soon as the alarm condition is not met anymore.
Alarm tag	This field allows to add custom text within the alarm message. %MSG% variable will contain the actual generated message and can be used such as: “my_prefix %MSG% my_suffix”. By default, tag will be used as prefix.
Alarm	If checked, this line of surveillance will be used for alarm generation.
Metric	If checked, this line of surveillance will be used for metric generation.
Report	If checked, this line of surveillance will used for showing threshold and severity in the daily report

Examples

Active	RFC Destination	Instances to exclude	Check Mode	Strict	Severity	Auto clear	Alarm tag	Alarm	Metric	Report
true	VERTEX_MS0018	AUTO	true	CRITICAL	true	true	false	false

Effect : Checks VERTEX_MS0018 destination from all application servers. Sends a CRITICAL alarm if the destination can't be reached from one AS.

Examples

Active	RFC Destination	Instances to exclude	Check Mode	Strict	Severity	Auto clear	Alarm tag	Alarm	Metric	Report
true	VERTEX_MS0018	mysap_PRD_00	AUTO	false	CRITICAL	true	true	false	false

Effect : Checks VERTEX_MS0018 destination from all application servers, except mysap_PRD_00. Sends a CRITICAL alarm if the destination can't be reached from any application server.

Generated metrics

metricId	metricUnit	metricTarget	metricDescription
RFC_DESTINATION_AVAILABILITY_PER_AS	status	[INSTANCE][DESTINATION]	The status of the destination per AS
RFC_DESTINATION_AVAILABILITY_PER_SYSTEM	status	[DESTINATION]	The global status of the destination. True if works from all application servers, false instead.