Terminology

Term	Definition
Group/Company	An organizational unit for grouping systems. It will also used for isolation purpose.
System	An SAP system as per SAP terminology, commonly identified by a trigram, its SID (System ID)
Connector	Defines how to connect to a system (technical settings for remote connection: host, credentials, etc…)
Monitor	A “check” dedicated to a given area/module in SAP (disk, logs, …). Can be configured with a set of filters, thresholds, severities, etc…
Profile	A configuration template composed of one or several monitors, defining how a set of components will be monitored
Plugin	A connection to a external solution/third party, for sending alarms, metrics or reports
Snapshot	A backup of the entire monitoring configuration and application settings
Alarm	An event generated by a monitor when a problem is detected with a monitored component
Metric	A data point reflecting a status or a measure of a component
Surveillance table	A table of rules within a monitor, used to configure the monitoring of a component
Tag	It is a “label” that can be assigned - currently - to Systems only
Agent	This is an instance of Redpeaks configured to act as a local monitoring unit, connected to a Primary instance