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SAP Monitoring and Situation Center. Part 2. Focused Insights. Step-by-step guide.

gorbenkoteh
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‎2020 Mar 17 1:08 PM
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Quote.



“Everything you do as a system administrator should serve a single

purpose: to secure and protect system integrity…”

– Sebastian Schreckenbach “SAP Administration – Practical Guide”


This quote about a series of blog-posts about business continuity and High Availability of SAP Systems.

Monitoring is a very important part of this process.


Monitoring (The list is being updated):



Other posts about system integrity protection (The list is being updated):


 

Prerequisites.



You are SAP Basis Administrator and you want to monitor your SAP Landscape

and you want to make a small own monitoring/situation center for this purpose



This is Part 2 (Thank you, Stefan Thomann)

Environment.


Solution Manager 7.2 SP10 + One Service Tools (Focused Build and Insights) SP05


Resolution.



Part 0. Installation and Upgrade.


Download Focused Build and Insight Add-on from Support Portal








Install it:


000 - client

Transaction - SAINT



Upgrade ST-OST to the latest SP

On 12/03/20  upgrade possible to SP 0005

Download SP-Packages from Support Portal








Install it:

000 - client

Transaction - SPAM


Post-installation steps:


Part 1. Open System for Changes



Transaction SE03

Administration -> Set System Change Option

Set temporarily - Software Components Modifiable


Part 2. Manual post-installation steps





Transaction SICF

Path to wd_df_setup:








Activate Service

Test Service


Complete Step #1... Step #9


Step #1.Prerequisites


Solution Manager Configuration

Technical Monitoring


"Mandatory steps  in Solution Manager 7.2 are completed.

          It means:

           2.1. Mandatory Configuration – System Preparation – all steps completed (status green)

           2.2. Mandatory Configuration – Infrastructure Preparation – all steps completed (status green)

           2.3. Mandatory Configuration – Basic Configuration – all steps completed (status green)

  3. Managed Systems Configuration is completed.

It means:

        3.1. Full Configuration Including Service Delivery / EWA are completed for all systems in monitoring (Step 7 – Check Configuration are green)"



Also KBA-Note -

2080080 - Central Note for Focused Insights






Step #2. Number Ranges Interval




Transaction - SNRO

Number ranges for objects:


/STDF/NB

0000000001 0099999999 0

0100000000 0199999999 0

0200000000 0299999999 0

0300000000 0399999999 0

0400000000 0499999999 0








/STDF/OPNB

00001 99999 0


/STDF/EXT

0000000001 9999999999





Step #3. Activate Queries





An automatic activity. Press the Execute button to run the corresponding tasks.








Step #4. System Alias Creation


Transaction - SM30

Maintain the /IWFND/V_DFSYAL object.


SAP System Alias: LOCAL_SM

Local GW: checked

RFC Destination: NONE

Software Version: DEFAULT

Description: Local Connection Solution Manager







Transaction - /iwfnd/maint_service

Maintain services:








Add System Alias (one example from many):












Step #5. Activate Services.




An automatic activity. Press the Execute button to run the corresponding tasks.







Step #6. Schedule Jobs.




An automatic activity. Press the Execute button to run the corresponding tasks.







Step #7. Initialization.


An automatic activity. Press the Execute button to run the corresponding tasks.







Step #8. Configuration.








Step #9. Cache Configuration.









Part 3. Setup Focused Insight for monitoring purposes.


 

 

 

Start Launchpad from Step #8











Some examples for Tactical and Operations Control Center (OCC)


Tactical.


Goto Tactical Dashboard Configuration Application









Settings

Instances Configuration - for example DEV, QAS and PROD SAP Landscapes

Metrics Values - Get Default Values button








System Configuration for systems in SAP Landscape







Dashboard Categories








Operations Control Center (OCC)



Also pay attention for user guide - https://help.sap.com/doc/68e8c7989bc24ea5b338cfed30c3b8e1/230/en-US/FINSIGHTS_OCC_Dashboard.PDF (Chapter 4 - Configuration)

Goto Operations Control Center (OCC) Configuration Application









Create New Dashboard - For example DEV, QAS, PROD Dashboards


For example Dashboard with gadgets about SAP ATTP Current state (Availability, Dumps, qRFC and Enque monitoring)











Troubleshooting



Focused Insight is a Fiori App.

For troubleshooting resolution will be

very useful complete openSAP course "Understanding SAP Fiori Launchpad" - https://open.sap.com/courses/fiops1

Especially pay attention to "Unit 2: SAP Fiori Launchpad Troubleshooting"



For example for error "System alias '' does not exist" we must check System Alias in  /iwfnd/maint_service





System Configuration for systems in SAP Landscape










Also useful information can be found in the transaction - /IWFND/ERROR_LOG (SAP Gateway Error Log)

and in the Chrome Developer Tools








Also will be useful Analysis Tool For FIORI  - (Report - /SDF/FIORI_ANALYSIS)

Conclusion.


One of the many possible approaches to Landscape monitoring with Focused Insight is described


Links:

Focused Insight on SCN


Video Overview



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