This document discusses monitoring SAP SLT (system replication) and RFC (remote function call) connections. It describes the limited monitoring capabilities available within SAP, including LTR, LTRC, LTRO and Solution Manager. It then introduces two alternative monitoring solutions - the OZSoft SAP Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM, and IT-Conductor's cloud-based application performance management. Both solutions allow for centralized, automated monitoring of SLT replication tables and RFC destinations without requiring SAP-specific software.

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SAP SLT & RFC Connection Publications
• SAP SLT Monitoring:
– http://www.itconductor.com/blog/sap-slt-
monitoring
• SAP RFC Connection Monitoring:
– http://www.itconductor.com/blog/sap-rfc-
destination-monitoring
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Availability & Performance Challenges
• SLT: Replication monitoring involves partners, schema, objects
– Connectivity
– Table Replication Status
– Data Latency
• RFC Connectivity
– Cornerstone of many connectivity in SAP ecosystem  Critical
– Availability of Targets
– Latency of connection
– Impact on Sending or Receiving system
• Central Monitoring
– Outages
– Delays
– Service Levels of connected systems and services
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What’s Available for SLT Monitoring from SAP?
• LTR (Configuration & Monitoring Dashboard)
– Netweaver Business Client Web UI
– Checks Status of Jobs (Batch processes available and utilized) and
Connections (RFC & DB connections)
– Status of Triggers: tables configured to replicate have DB triggers created on
source system to record changes in SLT logging tables
– Statistics: Replication details (Insert, Update, Delete), and Latency (in
seconds over the last 24 hours)
– By default the system summarizes statistical data based hours, days and
retention. You have to be logged on to the dashboard and manually click
refresh to see status changes, and if you're not refreshing often, your
session will get timed out, so it's really inconvenient!
– Not a centralized enterprise monitoring solution
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What’s Available for SLT Monitoring from SAP?
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What’s Available for SLT Monitoring from SAP?
• LTRC & LTRO (LT Replication Server Cockpit / Monitoring)
– LTRO Transaction in SAPGUI, you can globally monitor SLT server:
• The number of current running and free batch and dialog processes running on all
application servers of the SAP LT Replication Server system
• The availability status for all connected target systems, and the corresponding log entries
(warnings and errors)
• The status of multiple configurations (mass transfer IDs) within a single screen
– LTRC is similar to LTRO but can view only ONE configuration at a time
• MWBMON (Migration Workbench Monitor for Mass Data
Transfer)
– MWBMON Transaction on the SAPGUI Client you can monitor:
• Similar to LTRC, but with Mass Data Transfer and in-depth performance analysis for tables,
indexes, space, and even host resource utilization
• Activities Log
• Expert Functions: Migration Workbench activities such as Reset of Processing Steps, Table
mapping, and Performance Analysis
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What’s Available for SLT Monitoring from SAP?
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What’s Available for SLT Monitoring from SAP?
• Solution Manager
– Setup and Monitoring:
• SCN Blog: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-65065
– Solution Manager and managed system must be installed and patched first
• Note:
– Per SAP: “The system monitoring capabilities of SAP Solution Manager do
not allow the viewing of details for each table and related trigger – it
contains only aggregated information for a schema”, such as job, trigger and
table status
– Most data is aggregated and provides only a big picture. You would still
need to log on to the managed SLT system to look for more details.
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Centralized & Simple Approach to SLT Monitoring
• OZSoft SAP Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM:
– http://ozsoft-consulting.com/mp4sap/
– Discover the schema and included tables for monitoring
– Health and Performance of each replication table
– RFC destination monitoring included in SAP MP with Zero-
configuration on SAP side, and just a checkbox on SAP MP
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• OZSoft SAP Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM:
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Our Best of Breed Approach to SAP Monitoring
• IT-Conductor: IT Performance Management in the
Cloud
– SaaS based, no software, no licensing, managed monitoring
services with Subject-matter expert guidance and best
practices
– Monitoring, Management and Automation with integration
with entire SAP ecosystem
– Supports hierarchical service-oriented monitoring and service
level
– Subscription based threshold, alerts and notifications
– Time-synchronized for health and root-cause analysis
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• SAP MP
• IT-Conductor
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• IT-Conductor
– http://itconductor.com/
– Automatically discovered by schema and included tables for
monitoring
– Health and Performance of each replication table
– RFC destination monitoring included with zero-CCMS
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