Features, advantages and benefits
| Features | Advantages | Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive monitoring | Monitor R/3, databases, OS and user response times | In-depth monitoring from one central location |
| Alert and response-time correlation | Correlate application response times with back-office systems management | Correlates R/3 conditions directly with end-user response times |
| Better service-level management | Proactively manage and report application and response times | Complies with service-level agreements |
| Complies with service-level agreements | Monitors and manages critical servers (e.g. files, print, mail and Internet), critical strings (e.g. system, error, dump, job report, application messages), and critical components (e.g. redo logs, SAPArchive, SAPRouter) | Monitors and manages the environment around R/3 which directly affects application availability |
| 70 predefined alert policies | Contains alert thresholds and actions based on SAP’s own high-availability guidelines | Monitors your R/3 system without the need for programming |
| Advanced automation | Create policies that work across R/3, databases and operating systems | Deals with multisystem issues automatically and set up complex policies in a matter of minutes |
| Intelligence agents | Key components are written in SAP ABAP and can automatically trigger actions at the local level | Agents are programmed to monitor and respond to events locally |
| Easy customization | Drag-and-drop editor for easy creation of thresholds and actions | Complex policies involving response time and R/3 attributes can be constructed in minutes |
Business benefits
IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON® XE for R/3 is an integrated performance suite for managing SAP R/3 in the Enterprise. Providing proactive management for an unlimited number of R/3 instances, Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for R/3 can also be integrated with other OMEGAMON XE products to monitor databases and server operating systems from one central location. Even when an R/3 instance goes down, Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for R/3 continues to manage the remaining R/3 instances, as well as the databases and operating systems. It includes alerts for more than 350 SAP attributes (and more than 1,000 database and OS criteria from other Tivoli OMEGAMON solutions).
Enterprise-wide solutions, such as SAP R/3, require intricate IT infrastructures that have many possible points of failure. Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for R/3 can pinpoint bottlenecks in R/3 instances, database, server or OS at the end-user level. As an integrated solution, deeper systemic problems become more manageable.
Product Highlights:
Comprehensive Management –Manage R/3-related servers – manages crucial R/3-related file, mail, print and Internet transaction servers
Manage string messages – monitors and receives alerts for critical error and string messages
Cross-system problem management – Generates cross-system alerts and triggers automated actions to proactively avoid R/3 system problems
Monitor in real time – monitors systems in real time with a user-friendly GUI that does not require a manual refresh
Service-level management – monitors and reports on R/3 performance from an end user’s perspective to identify service-level bottlenecks and to alert managers of response time degradation
Version-independent support – provides a best-of-breed solution for proactively monitoring version 4.x as well as 3.x versions, without any loss of R/3 management capability
