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Operations Connector10.11

Integrate > SAP Solution Manager

SAP Solution Manager

The Operations Connector for SAP Solution Manager integrates SAP Solution Manager and Operations Manager i (OMi) so that the gathered systems-management data about the events and topology in an SAP Solution Manager environment is made available to the OMi solution. Such data can then be monitored and processed properly within OMi. OpsCx for SAP Solution Manager therefore enables you to establish a link between SAP Solution Manager environment and OMi.

For a list of the SAP Solution Manager release versions that OpsCx for SAP Solution Manager supports, see Application Software topic. For information about SAP Solution Manager, its individual releases and their features, see the SAP Solution Manager documentation.

Product Concepts

OpsCx for SAP Solution Manager is a product complementary to Operations Connector . It enhances Operations Connector to provide the following functionality:

Collecting SAP Solution Manager events and topology from an SAP Solution Manager environment
Mapping of the collected data to an OMi-compliant form
Customizing the data collection and data mapping

Deployment options for OpsCx for SAP Solution Manager are bound by Operations Connector. While both must be installed on the same system, remote monitoring capability of Operations Connector enables the applications to reside on a dedicated integration server. In such a setup, the processing, memory, and storage resources of the SAP Solution Manager host are burdened to a lesser degree.

The basic part of OpsCx for SAP Solution Manager is the Generic Integrator module (GenInt). It provides common functionality for integrating Operations Connector and other third-party systems, storage, or infrastructure management application.

The collection, processing, and mapping of events and topology data can be configured in detail as part of advanced configuration of OpsCx for SAP Solution Manager.

Event Collection and Forwarding

OpsCx for SAP Solution Manager makes SAP Solution Manager events available to OMi as follows:

OpsCx for SAP Solution Manager receives alerts from SAP Solution Manager through its Web Service interface using the HTTP protocol. It integrates the following types of alerts from System Monitoring:
- System alerts
- Database alerts
- Host alerts
The collected alerts are processed and sent to the REST Web Service endpoint of Operations Connector.
The collected events are mapped with a Operations Connector policy of the REST Web Service Listener type, and then forwarded to OMi.

Each event is tested if it matches some rule in the policy. If it does, the event is mapped accordingly.

The predefined generic rules in the policy serve as an example and can be changed.

Figure 1. Architectural overview of the SAP Solution Manager event integration with OMi

OpsCx for SAP Solution Manager enables tracing which SAP Solution Manager alert caused an OMi event. It also supports close-state propagation of events. Whenever an alert is closed in SAP Solution Manager, the corresponding event in OMi is also closed.

Topology Collection and Forwarding

OpsCx for SAP Solution Manager makes SAP Solution Manager topology available to OMi as follows. This process repeated regularly.

OpsCx for SAP Solution Manager regularly receives topology data from SAP Solution Manager RFC_READ_TABLE function module through its Web Service interface using the RFC protocol.
Operations Connector processes the received data and forwards it to OMi.
Topology objects are then mapped to the RTSM using the local topology synchronization component.

Figure 2. Architectural overview of the SAP Solution Manager topology integration with OMi

SAP Solution Manager topology structure is mapped to an equivalent structure in OMi. The topology structure is constructed from the following topology entity types:

Configuration items (CIs) (objects in SAP Solution Manager)
CI attributes (object attributes in SAP Solution Manager)
Relations between CIs (relations between objects in SAP Solution Manager)

The following CI types are created by default:

Nodes
SAP System
Database
Java application servers
ABAP application servers

When a CI is still present in OMi, but its corresponding original object no longer exists in the SAP Solution Manager infrastructure, OMi initiates the deletion only when the CI's last update time falls out of the aging time threshold configured in the Operations Connector policy for SAP Solution Manager topology. Therefore, such CI is not necessarily deleted immediately after the next topology collection query executed by OpsCx for SAP Solution Manager.

SAP Solution Manager

Product Concepts

Event Collection and Forwarding

Topology Collection and Forwarding

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