Overview

What is Redpeaks Cockpit ?

Redpeaks cockpit is a monitoring and integration solution primarily focused on SAP technologies and the associated databases and environments

Its purpose is to monitor the health and performance of these applications to ensure the highest quality of service and facilitate operations and maintenance.

We named it Cockpit because it will provide visibility and control over large and complex environments, via various applications such as Alarm console, Overview cockpit or Dashboards

Redpeaks cockpit works with Collectors which are dedicated to specific technologies, such as SAP.

Main features

Applications: Redpeaks cockpit can be seen as an application platform. Each application will help to manage device landscapes

Cockpit overview: Visualize your entire landscape in a single page

Alarm console: Manage all the problems detected on the devices

Inventory: Manage all you device properties and connectivity

Device dashboard: In depth visibility of a particular dashboard.

More applications will appear as we go.

Monitoring:

A whole section is dedicated to the definition and control of the monitored environments

This is where you will define the structure of the environment and the connection parameters

You will also define and control how those environments will be monitored

Predefined monitoring profiles are available for each type of system

Administration

Manage teams and users: Users can be grouped by teams to facilitate the control over what a user can see and do

Manage authorization profiles allowings to finely control which applications a user can use and which devices he can control.

Business rules: Create rules to define actions based on some incoming events

Plugins: Easily connect Redpeaks cockpit with external third parties

Monitoring library: A preconfigured set of monitors based on monitoring best practices and designed to be efficient and simple to use.

Collectors: Agents that remotely connect to the systems, collect, analyze data and generate monitoring information such as alarms, metrics and reports.

Monitored technologies

Redpeaks cockpit is a generic platform that can cope with any kind of devices.
The provided SAP collector can monitor the following applications:

SAP NetWeaver ABAP/Java

SAP S/4HANA

SAP HANA

SAP Business Objects

SAP ASE database (Sybase ASE)

Oracle database

MSSQL database

Architecture

The Redpeaks cockpit application relies on the following components:

A central instance hosting most key components such as UI, databases and agents control.

Collectors responsible for collecting information on the target systems.

Central Instance:

The central instance provides the main application services:

A REST API to consume Agent's data and provide a WEB user interface.

Databases to store configuration, metrics, reports, metadata and all generated information.

A central control bus to manage remote agents.

The central instance can be hosted on premise or via SAAS.

Collectors:

Collectors are agents that will locally collect and analyse information from the devices

Then consolidated information is sent back to the central instance

Collectors are a very efficient way of monitoring systems within isolated environments without exposing them.