Default Parameters for RollPageTest

This test extracts statistics specific to the two key concepts of memory management on a SAP ABAP server - the Roll area and the Paging area.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the RollPageTest.

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

• In the CLIENTNAME text box, specify the ID of the client system as what the eG agent will be connecting to the SAP ABAP instance. To know how to determine the client ID to use, Click Here.

• In the INSTANCENAME text box, specify the name of the SAP ABAP instance to be monitored. To figure out the name of the monitored instance, Click Here.

• In the TIMEOUT text box, indicate the duration (in seconds) for which this test should wait for a response from the SAP ABAP instance. By default, this is set to 120 seconds.

• Typically, to connect to a SAP ABAP instance and run tests, the eG agent requires the permissions of a SAP user who has been assigned the following privileges: S_RFC, S_TABU_DIS, S_XMI_PROD, S_TOOLS_EX, S_RZL_ADM. Ideally, you will have to create a new user role on the SAP ABAP instance for this purpose, associate the above-mentioned privileges with that role, and assign the new role to an existing SAP user. To know how to create the SAP user, Click Here. Once the new role is assigned to a SAP user, specify the name of this user against SAPUSER.

• The PASSWORD text box indicates the password of the specified SAPUSER.

• Confirm the password by retyping it in the CONFIRM PASSWORD text box.

• An indicator of the TCP/IP port at which the SAP server listens. For example, for a server that listens at port 3200, the SYSNO will be ‘00’. Similarly, if the SAP server port is 3201, the SYSNO will have to be specified as ‘01’. Therefore, in the SYSNO text box specify the system number of the SAP server with which the specified client communicates. To know the system number for the ABAP server being monitored, Click Here.

• If the SAP client with the specified CLIENTNAME exists in a network external to the SAP server, then a router will be used to enable the server-client communication. In such a case, specify the router string of the router in the ROUTER text box. If both the client and the server exist in the same network, then specify ‘none’ against the ROUTER text box. To know what is the SAP Router string for the ABAP server being monitored, Click Here.

• If the ISPASSIVE parameter is set to YES, then it means that by default all the SAP ABAP instances are passive servers in a SAP ABAP instance. No alerts will be generated if the servers are not running. Measures will be reported as “Not applicable” by the agent if the servers are not up.

• The eG agent uses the SAP JCO library to connect to the SAP ABAP system and pull out metrics. To enable the eG agent to make this connection and query the metrics, you need to specify the version of the SAP JCO library that the agent needs to use. For instance, to instruct the eG agent to use JCO v2.1.19, it would suffice if you specify the ‘major version number’ alone against JCO VERSION - in the case of this example, this will be 2.x. Note that if you have downloaded the SAP JCO API files for SAP JCO version 3 from the SAP market place , then the JCO VERSION configuration should be 3.x.

• Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the UPDATE button will register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with “$” indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. e.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to “xyz” and $port will be changed to “80” when configuring a test.