The central Interface and Connection Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 allows you to monitor interfaces and connections between business-critical systems, in real-time. It consists of two different monitoring use cases, the Interface Channel Monitoring and the Connection Monitoring, which are part of the Technical Monitoring within SAP Solution Manager.

Interface Channel Monitoring

Benefits:

• You monitor not only the performance of connections between systems but define interfaces on the level of functions called in a system. These function calls may be, for example, a function module (in case of an RFC connection) or a method called via a Web Service. In this way, you can monitor interfaces in detail.
• To allow for aggregate overviews, you organize the monitoring as follows:
  • You define scenarios which comprise all systems on which, for example, certain critical business scenarios depend.
  • You cluster the relevant interfaces in interface channels between the systems of your scenario, according to the type (RFC connection, Web Services, SAP Process Integration). When you monitor an interface channel, you can drill down to individual interfaces.
• To identify the interface channels according to their business relevance, you can define, in each scenario, attributes which you assign to the interfaces and interface channels. When monitoring the interfaces in real-time, you use the attributes as filters.

Typical use cases:

• As a technical administrator you set up monitoring of critical channels which are important, for example for transferring data between various systems.
• As an application owner, you identify critical business processes and want to ensure that the corresponding technical systems and interfaces are monitored technically.

Connection Monitoring

Benefits:

• You monitor the overall performance and availability of selected RFC and HTTP connections between different ABAP systems to guaranty the correct functioning of applications that are distributed over different technical systems.
• Define thresholds and get notified in case problems with certain connections happen.

Use Case:

• As a technical administrator you set up monitoring for selected critical RFC/HTTP connections inbetween different ABAP systems.
  
  

This page is part of the Application Operations Wiki. Notice that Application Operations itself is a use-case of SAP Solution Manager 7.1