HP Intelligent Management Center v5.2 Application Performance Manager Administrator Guide

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The page displays all application types that can be monitored by APM.
 Select Application Manager > Application Monitor from the navigation tree, and then click Add
on the application monitor list page.
3. Click SAP of the SAP Monitor class.
The page for adding a SAP application monitor appears.
4. Configure the following parameters:
 IP Address—Enter the IP address of the host on which the SAP application to be monitored is
installed. If the host is already added to the IMC Platform, you can also click Select and select
the host in the Select Devices window. For information about selecting a host, see "2 Quick
start." APM automatically checks the specified IP address and associates the application
monitor with the host managed in the IMC Platform.
 Name—Enter a unique application monitor name. HP recommends using Application
name_host IP address for naming the application monitor.
 Description—Enter a description for the application monitor to aid maintenance.
 Polling Interval (min)—Select a polling interval for the application monitor. Available options
include 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20, and 30. The default polling interval is 5 minutes. A shorter polling
interval provides more accurate real-time data, but consumes more system resources.
 Username—Enter the user name to access the SAP application to be monitored.
 Password—Enter the password to access the SAP application to be monitored.
 Client—Enter the client ID of the SAP application to be monitored.
 System Instance—Enter the instance number of the SAP application to be monitored.
 Language—Enter the language used by the SAP application to be monitored.
 Contact—Enter user contact information, such as name, email address, and telephone number.
The default is the username of the operator who created the application monitor.
 Related Applications—Configure the applications on which SAP depends. Click Add, and then
select applications in the popup Select Applications window. Operating system applications,
such as Windows, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, HP-UX, Solaris, Mac OS, and Linux, cannot be
selected. APM automatically adds the dependencies between SAP and operating system
applications by IP address and displays their dependencies in the application topology.
 Detect Application—Select this parameter if you want to enable application detection.
Application detection enables APM to verify connection to the application by using the previous
parameter settings, and to determine whether to add the application monitor based on the
verification result. APM adds the application monitor only when it can connect to the
application. When this parameter is not selected, APM adds the application monitor without
verifying the connection.
5. Click OK.
Modifying a SAP application monitor
Authorized users can modify all parameters except the IP address of a SAP application monitor. When
the IP address of a monitored SAP host changes, operators must add a new application monitor for the
host. However, the new application monitor cannot inherit the history data from the previous application
monitor.
To modify a SAP application monitor:
1. Click the Resource tab.