SAP Basis

ADM100 Lesson: Properties Variants and Threshold Values
– First create container for threshold values (properties variants)
and activate
– Then maintain threshold values for the MTEs in your own
monitors
Threshold values determine when the corresponding monitoring attribute
should trigger a yellow or red alert: Green means that there are “no
problems”, yellow means “warning”, red means “problem or error”, and
white means “no data available”.
The delivered threshold values must be adjusted to local requirements
before they are used. This adjustment should be recorded in properties
variants. This means that the settings can be transported to local systems.
This is very important, since measured values are always interpreted in
accordance with local threshold values. Explain again that a data collection
method must be explicitly scheduled and started for some attributes. This
explains some of the inactive or white attributes.
Threshold values can be stored for a monitoring attribute. Threshold
values determine when the monitoring attribute should trigger a yellow
or a red alert, and when it should become green or yellow again. The
CCMS Alert Monitoring Infrastructure is delivered preconfigured with
threshold values recommended by SAP. You should, however, check the
threshold values, at least for the monitoring attributes that you consider to
be important and that you have included in your own monitors. In this
way, you customize the CCMS Alert Monitor optimally to your system
environment. Otherwise, alerts can be constantly or never triggered,
depending on whether the threshold value is too low or too high for your
system environment.
Thresholdvaluesmustbestoredlocallyineverysystem.However,instead
of maintaining the same threshold values in every system, we recommend
that you maintain the values in the central monitoring system and then
distribute them to the monitored SAP systems using the transport system.
The prerequisite for transporting the threshold values to other SAP
systems is that you have stored them in properties variants.
(Monitoring) properties variants not only allow the transport of sets of
threshold values, but also different assessment of reported values based
on the time (of day). For example, some or all monitored values can be
interpreted differently during the day and during the night in this way
connection to operation modes, RZ04).
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