22.2 Monitoring with SAP's Own Monitoring System CCMS

With SAP's own Computing Center Management System framework (CCMS), not only SAP systems, but also external applications can be monitored. Here local agents collect data from each of the hosts, which, since Release R/3 4.6C,[270] can be queried from a central component. The data examined includes not only SAP-specific features such as SAP buffers or batch jobs, but also operating system data such as memory and CPU usage, or disk IO and swapping. Even information on the database used or the average response times of applications can be queried.

The data of the CCMS can also be queried externally through RFC (Remote Function Calls, a standard SAP interface). Corresponding libraries for Unix and ...

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