SAP® Control Center (SCC) provides a single, comprehensive,
Web-administration console for real-time performance, status, and availability monitoring of
large-scale SAP enterprise servers.
SAP Control Center combines a modular architecture, a rich-client
administrative console, agents, common services, and tools for managing and controlling
SAP products. It includes historical monitoring, threshold-based alerts and
notifications, alert-based script execution, and intelligent tools for identifying
performance and usage trends.
The SAP ASE installer installs these SAP Control Center components:
- Remote Command and Control Agent for SAP ASE – a remote command
and control agent that runs on a managed server, and which is required to manage
SAP ASE tasks within SCC.
- SNMP support for SAP ASE – Simple
Network Management Protocol is a standard protocol used for network management.
SNMP allows managers and agents to communicate: managers send requests to
agents, and agents respond to queries from managers.
In addition, you must also install the SCC Management User
Interface for SAP ASE in the custom installation option by selecting the SAP Control Center Management User Interface for SAP ASE
feature. This feature provides the GUI that allows you to manage and monitor activities
in SAP ASE using a Web browser.
In some cases, you may want to use a central SCC server to manage
multiple SAP ASE servers and other products rather than using the SCC server that is
installed with each SAP ASE server. Deployment considerations include:
- Minimizing network latency – you see better performance if you
install SCC near the monitored servers and near the workstations on which SCC
Web clients are running.
- Unified SCC environment – installing SCC in a central location
lets you manage and monitor your servers from a single SCC installation, which
is especially useful in a replication environment.
- Administration and security – you can exercise differing levels
of control in different parts of your enterprise, for example, by protecting the
data in some servers more strictly than in others.
See
Preinstallation Tasks in
SAP
Control Center Installation Guide for details on installation and deployment
considerations.
In a production environment, we recommend that you install the SCC server
on a machine other than the one you plan to run SAP ASE on.
See the following for detailed SCC information:
- SAP Control Center Release Bulletin – provides last-minute
installation and upgrade information, as well as known problems.
- SAP Control Center Installation
Guide – provides complete installation, configuration, and
troubleshooting procedures.
- SAP Control Center for Adaptive Server
Enterprise – includes SAP ASE configuration procedures, user
assistance, and troubleshooting information.