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SAP Expert Monitor for EMCMonitoring EMC Symmetrix within SAP

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SAP R/3 Two-Tier Architecture

DBSAP Instance DVEBMGS00

DIA, UPD

SAP GUI SAP GUI SAP GUI SAP GUI

Application server withCentral InstanceDatabase server

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SAP R/3 Three-Tier Architecture

SAP Instance D00

DIA, UPD

SAP Instance DVEBMGS00

DIA, UPD

DBDB

DB

SAP GUI SAP GUI SAP GUI SAP GUI

Applicationserver with

dialoginstance

Applicationserver with

CentralInstance

Stand-alonedatabase

server

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Performance Tools and Transactions:Tuning ABAP, SQL, and the Database

?Workload analysis ST03

? SQL, RFC, and Enqueue tracing ST05

? ABAP runtime analysis SE30

? Optimizer statistics SAPDBA

? Operating system monitor OS07, ST06

? Database buffer hit rates ST04

? Computing Center ManagementSystem (CCMS) RZ20

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What Information Does RZ20 Provide?

All Information About the R/3 System

?Buffers

?Database

?Operating system

?Security

?System configuration

?CCMS Technical Expert Monitors

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Database Information within RZ20

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Operating System Information within RZ20

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Among Other Sources of Information…

% syminqSymmetrix ID: 000183600181

Device Name Directors Device--------------------------- ------------ -------------------------------------- CapSym Physical SA :P DA :IT Config Attribute Sts (MB)--------------------------- ------------ --------------------------------------02F \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE17 16B:0 02A:C0 Unprotected N/Grp'd RW 1078030 \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE18 16B:0 01A:C0 Unprotected N/Grp'd RW 1078031 \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE19 16B:0 01A:C0 Unprotected N/Grp'd RW 1078

% sar –dSunOS l82aq023 5.7 Generic_106541-19 sun4u 05/15/02

15:12:32 device %busy avque r+w/s blks/s avwait avserv

15:12:42 fd0 2 0.1 12 10 0.0 0.8 nfs155 4 0.3 21 82 0 4.7 sd0 1 0 0.9 12 12 20.6 sd0,a 1 0 6 22 0.3 8.7 sd0,b 4 0.3 14 19 0.3 6.6 sd0,c 5 0.3 20 14 0 3.0

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Basis Performance Monitoring Transactions

? RZ20: CCMS Monitor Sets— CCMS— SAP Expert Monitor for EMC

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How to Get to the Symmetrix Information?

/nrz20

Symmetrix

Click on any of the Symmetrix attributes

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What Configuration Information Doesthe SAP Expert Monitor for EMC Provide?

?Host and operating system information

?Symmetrix general information

?Disk Directors

?Front-end Directors

?Disks

?Hyper volumes

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Configuration InformationSymmetrix General Information

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Configuration InformationFront-End Director Information

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Front-End Director Performance Information

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Front-End Director Performance InformationDouble Click for Sortable Table Form

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Configuration InformationBack-End Director Information

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Disk Director Performance Information

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Disk Director Performance InformationDouble Click for Sortable Table Form

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Configuration InformationHyper Volume Information

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Hyper Volume Performance Information

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Hyper Volume Performance InformationDouble Click for Sortable Table Form

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Configuration InformationDatabase Information

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Datafile Performance InformationDouble Click for Sortable Table Form

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For Example: Datafile Response Times

Problem:High datafile response times, waits, and I/O rate;unpredictable user response times

Cause:Possible datafile contention and hot volumes;possible database log file contention

Solution:Use SAP transactions OS07, ST04Use SAP Expert Monitor for EMC RZ20

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Basis Performance Monitoring Transactions

? OS07, ST06: Operating System Monitor— CPU, memory, disk, and network usage— Logical volume queue lengths and wait times— Detail analysis menu ? Disk

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Basis Performance Monitoring Transactions

? ST04: Database Performance Analysis— Examine database buffer hit rates— Examine datafile response times and wait times— Detail analysis menu ? File system requests

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Installation Details

? Required files (all downloadable from SAPSERVx andhttp://service.sap.com)— emcmon.dll— sapccmsr.exe— install.cmd— Two SAP transport files

? On Windows NT / 2000, run install.cmd and enter theinformation when prompted

? On UNIX, run “sapccmsr –R” to register the agent

? Currently for Symmetrix only, not available onCLARiiON or Celerra

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Requirements

?SAP software— SAP Basis 4.6C on the network for the Central

Monitoring System— Installation of CCMS monitoring agent executable

and the EMC plug-in

?EMC software— EMC ControlCenter Resource Availability, EMC

ControlCenter Automated Resource Manager, orEMC WideSky SRM Enabler

— SYMAPI installed and running on the databasehost connected to the Symmetrix

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Optimizing SAP Performance: Summary

?Database-specific tools— Oracle Enterprise Manager and Performance

Pack— DB2 Performance Monitor and SQL

Performance Analyzer— SQL Server Performance Monitoring Tool

?EMC ControlCenter family— Symmetrix Optimizer— Workload Analyzer— Database Tuner for Oracle and DB2 UDB

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