Admi ni st r at i on/Moni t or i ng

SAP Net Weaver

Composi t i on Envi r onment
Soluti on and Platform Management
Product Management SAP NetWeaver
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Admi ni st r at i on/Moni t or i ng
SAP Net Weaver Composi t i on Envi r onment (CE)
Features of the tools
Easy-to-use tools for administration,
monitoring, troubleshooting, and
problem analysis of your SAP
NetWeaver CE system.
Admi nistration tasks, such as:
starting and stopping instances,
whole systems, services and
applications, checking and
modifying configuration settings,
anal yzi ng logs and traces, ensuring
the error-free functioning of all
system components by continuous
system monitoring.
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Benef i t s of t he Tool s
SAP NetWeaver Administrator (NWA) bundles all key functionality
needed for daily administration. It is one web based tool for all tasks
being processed inside of the Application Server Java, which runs out
of the box. SAP NetWeaver Administrator replaces SAP Visual
Administrator.
AS Java configuration via templates is one building block for SAPs
Zero Administration
Use of JMX (Java Monitoring Extensions) as an open Java standard.
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Tool s Over vi ew
Main administration tools provided with the SAP CE are:
SAP Management Console (SAP MC) / Microsoft MC
Centrall y moni tor and perform basic bootstrapping administration tasks, such as
starting or stopping the application server, monitoring log files, ICM administration
etc.
Config Tool
Offline configuration of the application server, such as adding
additional server processes to a Java instance, viewi ng and
reconfiguring system properties, and so on.
SAP NetWeaver Admi nistrator (NWA)
Web-based tool in a local and central flavour for monitoring and administration.
To integrate application management and administration, SAP has decided to
extend SAP Sol ution Manager with the capabil iti es of the central SAP NetWeaver
Administrator. Central monitoring of a CE system will be done via SAP Solution
Manager.
DB related administration tools
Telnet Admi nistrator
Admi nister the appli cation server remotel y using tel net or to perform more
advanced admini stration or runtime configuration steps, to connect to the server
and execute the available server shell commands.
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Admi ni st r at i on Tool s Compar i son
Local
Remote
Local
Remote
Local
Local
Remote
Conn.
SAP MMC:
MMC
SAP MC: J ava
browser applet
(J RE 1.4.2
required)
Online or Offline Brow
ser
- Bootstrapping administration
- Log analysis
SAP MMC /
SAP MC
Telnet client Online ONLY Text - Start/Stop and configure Services
and Managers.
Shell console
Admini strator
J VM Online or Offline
DB online
J ava
GUI
- J ava memory settings.
- Permanent configuration changes
GUI Confi g
Tool
Browser Online ONLY Brow
ser
- Start/Stop of J ava services and
applications
- Configuration display of Services
and Managers
- User Management
- Core services of SAP Visual
Administrator
SAP
NetWeaver
Admini strator
Client
Require
ments
J2EE ENGINE UI MAIN FEATURES TOOL
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Syst em I nf or mat i on, CE 7.1 SP3
System Information
page
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SAP Management Console
SAP MC, SAP MMC
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Boot st r ap Admi ni st r at i on: Usi ng SAP Management Consol es
For bootstrapping activities like starting or stopping a system or instance,
looking for processes and threads, basic log analysis, SAP recommends to
use one of the two consoles:
SAP Microsoft Management Console
Based on MMC
Works in Microsoft only
SAP Management Console
Java browser applet
Runs on all platforms
Both consoles have nearly the same look & feel, and functionality, and will
be supported in future.
This chapter will focus on SAP MC.
All funcitionalities are also available with
the well known SAP MMC.
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SAP MC (Management Consol e)
With NW 7.1, SAP ships the SAP MC with nearly the same
functionalities like SAP Microsoft Management Console .
No installation required, since the Java applet is downloaded
during first usage. It runs out of the box and independent of
the managed system and OS.
To start the SAP MC, call http://<host>:5<InstNr>13
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SAP MC: Cor e Func t i onal i t i es
Start and stop of system or instance
Version and runtime parameters
Process list and process traces
Enabling debugging
Access points: Viewing the communication ports
Thread activity
Aliases: Launching deployed applications
Garbage collection
Heap memory
ICM monitoring
Log file monitoring
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SAP NetWeaver Administrator
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Wel c ome t o SAP Net Weaver Admi ni st r at or , CE 7.1 SP3
SAP NetWeaver Administ rator NWA is the new browser-
based administration and monitoring solution for your SAP
NetWeaver system.
To start NWA, call http://<host>:<port>/nwa
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Loc al SAP Net Weaver Admi ni st r at or Wor k c ent er s at a Gl anc e
Operation
Management
Start and Stop of processes, services and applications
Identity Management
Archiving
Availabilit y and
Performance
Management
J ava System Reports as a problem detection and analysis tool
Process Monitoring of Guided Procedure components.
Problem
Management
Configuration Browsing
System Info
Locks, Log Viewer, Open SQL
SOA
Management
Configuration of Web Services and Web Service Clients
View and analyze the logs and traces of calls made to Web services and from
Web service clients deployed on the system.
Confi guration
Management
Core services of SAP Visual Administrator
Application and service properties configuration
Connectivity and Resources configuration
Security settings
Configuration Wizard
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Opt i on t o Navi gat e: Qui c k Li nk s Page
http://<host>:<port>/nwa/quicklinks
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Config Tool
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Conf i gTool
ConfigTool - Characteristics
The ConfigTool enables Zero Administration concept: The goal is to
simplify the technical configuration within the NetWeaver Java stack.
Therefore remaining configuration tasks will be kept to a minimum.
Its template based structure allows for instance to configure the AS
Java with minimum resource requirement. Additionally, onl y
definitely required services and applications are started.
Is Required for VM and UME parameter settings or instance profile.
Is used for nearly all main configuration tasks like configuration of
logs, applications, managers, services, instances and secure store.
ConfigTool is started via
<inst-dir>\j2ee\configtool\configtool.bat (Win)
<inst-dir>/j2ee/configtool/configtool.sh (Unix)
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Conf i g Tool : St r uc t ur e
Configuration of
logs, applications, managers,
services, and instances
Custom set
parameter
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Fur t her I nf or mat i on

SAP
http://help.sap.com
SAP NetWeaver 7.1 SAP NetWeaver CE Administrators Guide
http://partnerwithsap.com

SDN
http://sdn.sap.com/
SAP NetWeaver Platform and Operations, Administration
Forum SAP NetWeaver Administrator
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