Configuration items

Following components are the key elements of the configuration.

It is important to understand what they are, how to use them and configure them.

Company

A company is an organizational unit in which monitored systems will be organized

It is also a silo that can be used to isolate a group of systems and configure their visibility across Pro.Monitor users

System

A system represents an SAP system as per SAP terminology.

Every system must be attached to one company

It is identified by a system ID (SID), a 3 letter string

Within a system, Pro.Monitor might use several connection means to access to the target data

These connections means are identified as connectors

Connector

A connector defines an access mean to a SAP system

It is attached to one system

Depending on the type of system, connectors can be created individually or sometimes being created automatically based on system settings

For each type of connector (ABAP, HANA, BusinessObjects, ...) will correspond a type of monitor

SAP user

In most cases, connectors will need to use user credentials to connect to the systems.

These credentials will be stored in a SAP user profile and associated with one or several connectors.

User profiles are associated to one company

Profile

A profile is a configuration template that can be used across several systems.

It provides a way to centralize the monitoring configuration of several systems and to facilitate configuration changes.

It is composed by a group of monitors with a specific customization

Profiles are built by selecting monitors in the monitoring library, and then by configuring each monitor for a given purpose

All systems associated to the same profile will be monitored the same way.

The use of profiles is the only manner to associate a monitor to a system, it is the central component of the configuration.

Profiles will be associated to connectors (and not to systems), therefore, profiles will usually contain monitors for a given type of connector.

Monitor

A monitor represents the configuration of the monitoring of a specific module or component within a system (ie: Users, CPU, Response times, etc...)

One monitor can usually only be assigned to one type of connector (ie ABAP buffers monitor can only work with ABAP connector)

Via a set of filters, thresholds, severity, periods and other specific parameters, you can configure in details how a monitor will perform and what kind of data it will produce (alarms, metrics, etc...)

You can for instance configure a large scope monitor picking any event on any instance as well as reacting to a specific event, for a specific user on a specific instance.

The actua monitoring is defined in the monitors

The same monitor can be configured differently across different profiles

Monitoring library

The monitoring library is a set of profiles containing monitors with a predefined configuration

It is meant to facilitate the configuration process by providing default templates.

These templates have been configured based on recommended configurations.

SLD profile

An SLD profile defines the connection parameters to the System Landscape Directory of a company

Once a profile is configured, it can be used to discover the registered systems from the SLD and create automatically all necessary systems an connectors.

Plugins

Plugins are used to integrate Pro.Monitor with another application.

It contains the connection parameters used to connect with an external API.

As Pro.Monitor produces alarms, metrics and reports, they can be transferred to external solutions using plugins.