Layout of SAP Management Console 

Use

The SAP Management Console provides essential information for monitoring the SAP system and offers functions to start, stop and restart the system. All the information and functions available for SAP system can be accessed in the same way. Therefore, before you begin working with the SAP Management Console, it is useful to gain a general overview of the SAP Management Console layout and standard methods of accessing information and functions.

The SAP MC presents information on two panes of a window. The pane on the left is the Hierarchy(scope) pane. It displays available information in a tree structure that can be expanded and compressed. The pane on the right is the Table (result) pane. It shows detailed information about any item selected in the scope pane.

Features

When the SAP MC has been started, an empty scope pane are showed.

The scope pane consists of a root node, SAP Systems, under which various SAP systems are listed. Under each of these systems, you can display individual instances. Each of the listed instances allows you to navigate to sub-nodes that provide detailed information about the system. The sub-node Process List is always displayed, Current Status and Open Alerts are displayed if relevant for the specific instance type. The additional nodes, Syslog, Queue Statistic, ABAP WP Table, J2EE, J2EE Process Table, J2EE Caches, J2EE Sessions, J2EE Aliases, J2EE GC History and J2EE Heap Memory are only available if relevant for the specific instance type.

The system icons and the nodes for instances, processes and alerts are displayed in different colors, depending on their state. The colors mean the following:

Gray: Unknown state, only outdated values, system is offline

Green: Error-free

Yellow: Critical

Red: Error

The SAP MC is able to updates periodically the Process List information at a set time interval. Only the most critical state is passed on from the Process List to the parent instance node above it. The nodes at the SAP system level contain all the states of the instance nodes. For example, if two instances are green, one is red and three are gray, the system node displays red thus reflects the states of the worsest instances.

To access detailed information about your SAP system, you have to fully expand one of the SAP instances listed in the MC scope pane and then select an available item, for example, Open Alerts. Once an item has been selected, the corresponding information is displayed on the result pane. Usually you can navigate from here to further levels of detail or other categories of system information. The following table summarizes the available options:

  Selected Item Information Displayed
SAP system, for example "BIN" Node for an SAP system. The colors inidicate states that are derived from the SAP instance and ITS instance subnodes and are automatically refreshed. If all SAP instances are stopped (gray color), the color of the ITS instance sub-nodes is ignored.
SAP Instance, for example,  p18358.wdf.sap-ag.de Node for an SAP instance. The color indicates the state that is automatically refreshed and inherited from the Process List subnode.
Process List Displays the processes that were started by the start service and their state. The color is automatically refreshed and reflects the worst state of all started processes.
Current Status Displays detailed information on the current state of the system like transaction RZ20. It allows you to navigate to different categories of system information and levels of detail. A filter can be specified to limit the view to certain subnodes. The information must be refreshed manually.
Open Alerts Displays the most serious alerts in the system like transaction RZ20. A filter can be specified to limit the view to certain subnodes. You have to refresh the information manually.
Syslog Displays the system log, even if the SAP system is not functioning properly or is offline. The information must be refreshed manually. It is only available in expert mode.
Queue Statistic Displays the state of the SAP system queues. The information must be refreshed manually. It is only available in expert mode.
ABAP WP Table Displays information on ABAP work processes like transaction SM50. The SAP system has to be started, but does not have to be functioning properly as shared memory of the SAP system is accessed . The information must be refreshed manually. It is only available in expert mode.
J2EE Process Table Displays information on J2EE processes. The J2EE engine has to be started, but does not have to be functioning properly as shared memory of the J2EE engine is accessed . The information must be refreshed manually. It is only available in expert mode.
J2EE Caches Displays information on J2EE caches. The J2EE engine has to be started, but does not have to be functioning properly as shared memory of the J2EE engine is accessed . The information must be refreshed manually. It is only available in expert mode.
J2EE Sessions Displays information on J2EE sessions. The J2EE engine has to be started, but does not have to be functioning properly as shared memory of the J2EE engine is accessed . The information must be refreshed manually. It is only available in expert mode.
J2EE Aliases Displays information on J2EE application aliases. The J2EE engine has to be started, but does not have to be functioning properly as shared memory of the J2EE engine is accessed . The information must be refreshed manually. It is only available in expert mode.
J2EE GC History Displays information on JAVA virtual machine garbage collection of the J2EE engine. The J2EE engine has to be started, but does not have to be functioning properly as shared memory of the J2EE engine is accessed . The information must be refreshed manually. It is only available in expert mode.
J2EE Heap Memory Displays information on JAVA virtual machine garbage collection of the J2EE engine. The J2EE engine has to be started, but does not have to be functioning properly as shared memory of the J2EE engine is accessed . The information must be refreshed manually. It is only available in expert mode.
ICM Displays the internet communication manager web administration if ICM is running and the web administration is installed.
ITS Instance, for example, BIN_p18357.wdf.sap-ag.de Displays the internet addresses handled by the ITS instance and their states. The color is automatically refreshed and summarizes the internet addresses' states. If some internet addresses are available and some not, the ITS instance state color is yellow. If all internet addresses are available/fail the ITS instance color is green/red. The node is only available in Active Directory / LDAP mode.

 

All the informations are displayed in Note that for most of the nodes displaying lists only the Detail view makes sense and is therefore the automatic default setting. Lists that typically have many rows provide an additional filter function in the table header. If you enter data in the filter fields only matching table rows will be displayed. You can use wildcards * and ? in the filter definition.

You can update the information displayed at any time using the Refresh option that is available on the context menu.

Database Administration Functions

The MMC tree includes a node for the database server. This is marked with a special blue icon. With the help of extension Snap-Ins, context menus and additional subnodes can be added to this node for database administration. The number of available menu functions and subnodes depends on the database type and is implemented in separate database-specific extension Snap-Ins.

At present, extension Snap-Ins for SQL Server, SAPDB, Informix and DB6 are available. For example, the SQL Server extension displays subnodes for the database logs. Its context menu lets you directly access the Enterprise Manager to perform a number of tasks:

Some database vendors offer web based administration. If the database admin url is correctly configured in the SAP profiles the Snap-In can display it in the result pane.

See also:

Context Menu of the SAP Systems Manager Snap-In

Starting the MMC

Configuring MMC for Active Directory Services

MMC Enhancements for Active Directory Services