Marlon Hernandez / BI Deployment
October / 2014
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Agenda
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Why to bother me with SAPOSCOL?
 Host Metrics and an easy way to get them.
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Yes, yes, but What SAPOSCOL is?
 Motivation, Definition, Features, Supported Operating Systems.
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Installing: when 1 + 1 = 3.
 Download, Installation, Verification.
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Easy CMC set up.
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Get Host Metrics!
6.
What to do if…?
 Known issues and Troubleshooting
7.
And the Future?
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Host Metrics and an easy way to get them

Now you can see, use and enjoy Host Metrics on CMC!
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There is information, but it only needs to be used.
You may use Host Metrics to built useful and powerful tools like: Watchlists, Probes, Alerts and Dashboards.
• We provide the basics to get Host Metrics, then you can shine suing it.
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Motivation, Introduction and details

About SAPOSCOL
Motivation:
 There is no unified and consolidated installation guide for installing SAPOSCOL or SAP Host Agent for BI4.x products. We need a place to collect and centralize the information in a easy way to use it.
 The customers and engineers have to search in multiple sources to get the information to complete the whole process.
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About SAPOSCOL
Definition:
The operating system collector SAPOSCOL is a stand-alone program that runs in the operating system background. It runs independently of SAP instances exactly once per monitored host. SAPOSCOL collects data about the operating system resources, including:
· Usage of virtual and physical memory.
· CPU utilization.
· Utilization of physical disks and file systems.
· Resource usage of running processes.
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About SAPOSCOL (2)
How does SAPOSCOL work?
 SAPOSCOL makes the data available using a segment of the shared memory for various applications and all SAP instances on a host.
 SAPOSCOL runs exactly once on each host.
 By default, SAPOSCOL collects the current data every ten seconds plus the hourly averages records for the last 24 hours.
Background to Origin
 When the development of SAP R/3 began, the hardware resources on UNIX servers were so scarce that it was necessary to customize the applications to these resources.
 In many areas, SAP R/3 is based on a logical, operating system-like level (such as memory management or managing the work processes). SAP R/3 could only manage these tasks if it had access to reliable performance values for the operating system, independent of the specific operating system. SAPOSCOL performs this task with a small usage of resources such as CPU or memory.
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About SAPOSCOL
Features:
The program SAPOSCOL is delivered with every SAP system, but is not restricted to SAP systems. The special features of the program are:
 You require a special authorization to use SAPOSCOL (see Installing SAPOSCOL on a Microsoft Windows Host or Installing SAPOSCOL on a UNIX Host).
 SAPOSCOL runs exactly once on each host.
 SAPOSCOL runs independently of the SAP system.
 By default, SAPOSCOL collects the current data every ten seconds plus the hourly averages records for the last 24 hours.
 The SAP_COLLECTOR_FOR_PERFORMANCE, a background job, takes performance data for the last 24 hours from the shared memory and writes it to the
MONI performance database. You can compare this data for one or more hosts.
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About SAPOSCOL (3)
Supported Operating Systems:
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 SAPOSCOL is delivered for the following operating system platforms:
Microsoft Windows
AIX
SUN/SOLARIS
HP-UX
LINUX
OS/390
OS/400
SNI
ALPHAOSF
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SAP HostAgent + SAPCAR = SAPOSCOL.

Installing: When 1 + 1 = 3.
1. SAP Host Agent
2. SAP SAPCAR
Download
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Extract
Install
3. SAPOSCOL
Verify
CMC Set up
DONE!
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Installing SAPOSCOL through SAP HostAgent
• Currently the way to get SAPOSCOL is through the SAP HostAgent
Link to download SAP HostAgent: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw74/helpdata/en/aa
/377b2a470b4f47a98e037b5a7cbe32/content.htm
Get the later SP for the OS.
Getting the latest available SP for Linux.
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SAPCAR is required to extract the SAP HostAgent.
• Download SAPCAR 7.20. SAP Note:212876.
Get the later SP for the OS.
Getting the latest available SP for Linux.
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Extracting the SAP HostAgent with SAPCAR
• SAP Note 1031096 Extracting on the Linux box.
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Running the SAP HostAgent Installation
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Verifying SAPOSCOL…
• Verifying SAPOSCOL status:
• From http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw74/helpdata/en/
8b/92b1cf6d5f4a7eac40700295ea687f/frameset.h
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Verifying SAPOSCOL status on the Linux box.
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Checking SAPOSCOL running as a service
• SAP KBA 1691937
• Verifying SAPOSCOL services on the Linux box.
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Configure Monitoring Services and just point to SAPOSCOL!

Configuring Monitoring Services
• Remove Monitoring Services from default
Adaptive Processing Server (APS).
• Add dedicated APS with Monitoring
Services.
• Monitoring service runs in active/passive mode. The passive monitoring services collect the SAPOSCOL data and forward to the active monitoring service.
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Setting up SAPOSCOL on CMC
• SAP KBA 1687623 Adding SAPOSCOL path and restart the related Monitoring APS.
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Viewing Host Metrics on CMC

SAP Host Metrics List
• Host Metrics List Getting Host Metrics Available
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Viewing Host Metrics
• Free Memory Host Metrics CPU Utilization Host Metrics
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Known Issues, Troubleshooting and SAP KBAs

Extracting SAP HostAgent with SAPCAR
• Installation Issue:
What to do with SAPCAR command issues like this one:
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SAPOSCOL known issues and SAP KBAs
• SAP KBA 1627564 Shared Memory
• SAP KBA 1962958 using on clustered landscape
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SAPOSCOL known issues and SAP KBAs (2)
• SAP KBA 1607941 in Wily Introscopoe • SAP KBA 1891665 metrics not showing up
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What is coming…?

What is next?
 SAPOSCOL, SAP HostAgent and Host Metrics are in process to be included in the BI Support Tool.
 Also the tools may be included in the default installation on future releases of the BI Platform.
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Contact information:
Marlon Hernandez
Engineer.
400 International Parkway, Lake Mary, USA.
+1 407-804-7203
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