Solution Manager 7.

1 Technical Monitoring
Unified Dashboard Configuration Guide
This document describes how to configure the unified dashboard center program on your solution manager.
1. IMPORT AND ACTIVATE THE DASHBOARD PROGRAM

Step

Screenshot

Import the transport

requests

N/A

Check if all ABAP

objects (DDIC
objects, classes,
function modules)
are active under
package ZDC

Execute transaction
SICF
Activate the node
/sap/dashboard

Activate three other

SICF nodes:
/sap/ac
/sap/fmcall
/sap/bc/bsp/sap/zdc
and
/sap/bc/bsp/sap/zdv
Now the dashboard
program is fully
activated. You can
proceed to initiate
dashboard settings
and create
dashboards

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2. INITIAL DASHBOARD SETTINGS

After importing the dashboard program you will need to enter initial settings before create dashboards
Step

Screenshot

Use Chrome or latest

IE browser to open
URL
http://<solmanhost>:<
solman_port>/sap/bc/
bsp/sap/zdc/admin.ht
ml
Logon with your
solman user and
password
Navigate to Data
Provider tab

Click the Add

Provider button and
enter new data
provider info
Class:
ZDP_SYSMON
ZDP_BPA
ZDP_BPO_ALERT_T
ABLE
ZDP_EEM
Enabled: true
Click Save Providers
to save the settings
Now you have initated dashboard settigns, you can proceed to prepare data providers/populate
select options

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3. CREATE A DASHBOARD
In this step you can create or customize a dashboard base on your monitoring/reporting requirement.
Step

Screenshot

Open the dashboard

URL at
http://<solman_host>:
<port>/sap/bc/bsp/sa
p/zdc/dashboard.html
Click the + button to
create dashboard

Enter dashboard info

including:
Folder: Folder to
include this
dashboard
Title: title of the
dashboard for
example AppOps
Dashboard
Columns/Rows: how
many columns/rows
to show in this
dashboard
Hit the Apply
changes button to
create the dashboard

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Click the Configure

Gadget button to
configure a gadget
within the dashboard

Enter the gadget info

including:
Title: title of the
gadget
Data Provider: where
the monitoring data
comes from
Renderer: how would
you like the
dashboard to be
renderer
SID/Metric: choose
the option to query
data provider
Hit the Add query to
add exiting query
option
Hit the Apply
changes button to
Note: you can add multiple queries in the same gadget for example you can correlate Concurrent
logon users and CPU Utilization in the same gadget

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After applying the

changes you can see
first gadgets are
created with the
metric youve
selected
Repeat previous
steps to configure
other gadgets

Note that you can

drag Existing
gadgets (gadgets
from other
dashboards) from
left panel into your
dashboard

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Click the Save

button to save current
dashboard

Now you have

created a new custom
dashboard on your
own.
You can click the
Today button to
change time range
and resolution.
Click the Share
button the send the
dashboard line via
email
Click the arrow button
besides Refresh to
define auto refresh
interval.
Or Edit to change
dashboard
gadgets/metrics
Now youve created a new dashboard.

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3.1. Adding BPA Gadgets

Besides adding system monitoring gadgets, you can also add Business Process Analytics Panels to the unified
dashboard.
Step

Screenshot

Open the dashboard

URL at
http://<solman_host>:
<port>/sap/bc/bsp/sa
p/zdc/dashboard.html
Click the + button to
create dashboard or
edit existing
dashboard
Change Data provider
to ZDP_BPA and
choose the Panels to
add (note: the Panel
name should match
Technical Name from
BPO dashboard
setup)

Afterwards you
should see the
gadgets in unified
dashboard with
exactly the same data
from BPA panels
Note: Unified
Dashboard time
range will NOT apply
to BPA panels, it will
use the configured
time range per BPA
panel setup.

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4. AUTHORIZATION CONTROL
You may want to restrict access to dashboard, eg, allow only a few users to edit the dashboards etc.
In the dashboard program there are three groups of users for different responsibilities:
ADMIN: setup providers, mass maintenance of dashboards, change configurations, assign user groups
EDITOR: edit dashboards
VIEWER: view dashboard
In addition an ADMIN can set a dashboard to READONLY to prevent further changes from EDITOR.
To assign users or set read only flag:
Step

Screenshot

Navigate to Admin ->

Config tab and enter the
ABAP user IDs separated
by comma (,) without
space
(Note: you will need to
Add config to add the
entries if they don't exist)
Empty value makes
everyone has the role (for
example everyone can
view dashboard)
After saving config the
new authorization will be
effective immediately.

To lock a dashboard:
Navigate to manage
dashboard and select the
Readonly flag
After that the dashboard
will be shown as Readonly
for editors.

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5. ANONYMOUS ACCESS
You may want to provide anonymous access URL to the dashboard. For example to distribute the dashboard to
large group of end-users and allow them review the dashboards on iphone/ipads.
Step

Screenshot

First step is to create an

user for anonymous
access.
For example we can
create user
DASHBOARD with
following roles
SAP_SMWORK_TECH_MON
ZSAP_NOTIF_ADMIN
ZSAP_SM_EEM_LEVEl01
ZSAP_SYSTEM_REPOSITORY_
DIS

Change user type to

communication Data user.
Enter password for the
user.
Save settings

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Second step is to maintain

an anonymous SICF
service for accessing the
dashboard
Execute transaction SICF
and navigate to following
service
/sap/ac
Double click on the
service name.

Open Logon Data tab

and enter the dashboard
user client, ID and
password.
Save the node.
Make sure the /sap/ac
node is activated.

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Maintain the dashboard

user for path
/sap/bc/bsp/sap/zdc
as well. Save settings

Now you can view

dashboard with following
URL without logon:
http://<host>:<port>/sap/b
c/bsp/sap/zdc/dashboard.
html?service=ac

Note: to disable anonymous access you can simply lock the dashboard user, or deactivate the
/sap/ac SICF node.

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