How to validate active monitoring setup in SAP PCo

[former_member835417]

Dear Folks,

We are using SAP PCo 15.5.4.25.

We have an agent 'WinCC Agent' in SAP PCo and we are trying to enable active monitoring for this agent.

Opened PCoRemoteClient, Clicked on 'Enable Active Monitoring' and performed all necessary configurations in 'SAP MII Alert Configuration' popup window as shown below.

Do we need to do perform any other configuration to start active monitoring service?.

How can we validate if the configuration is ok and active monitoring for the agent got enabled?

Not able to see any log for the transaction we used to call from active monitoring.

Kindly help me with the details on how to validate active monitoring for the agent.

Thanks & Regards,

Surender Kamaraj.

[steve_stubbs]

Hi Surender,

I believe that Active Monitoring will only call the defined MII Transaction if the monitored Agent Instance goes into the Stopped State. You can test this by just stopping the Agent Instance.

Regards, Steve

[former_member835417]

Hi Steve,

I have started the agent. It is in running status in Remote client.

After some time, I have stopped the agent manually in PCo Management console. It got reflected in Remote client.

But the MII transaction I configured under active monitoring is not called from PCo.

Thanks & Regards,

Surender Kamaraj.

[steve_stubbs]

Hi Surender,

I was incorrect about the Active Monitor detection of Agent Instance Status to call an MII transaction. Remote Client Active Monitoring will only call the defined MII Transaction if the Agent Instance Status changes to Error. From the PCo Help Documentation on Remote Client:

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Active Monitoring (with SAP MII)

The Active Monitor component, which you can select during the PCo installation, supports you in monitoring agent instances during productive operation. The agent instances are monitored automatically, so that outages of communication connections are reported immediately and actively. In active monitoring, you receive an e-mail from SAP MII if a PCo instance cannot be reached or an agent instance changes its status to Error. Such a change in status always occurs if the agent loses its connection to the data source, for example.

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If you want to fully monitor a PCo Agent Instance from MII, another approach is to develop an MII transaction to execute a Web Service Call Against the PCo ManagementHost from MII to get the Agent Instance Status, and perform some activity based on the returned status of the Agent Instance. This transaction can be scheduled in MII to run as often as needed to check the PCo Agent Instance(s) status.

Regards, Steve