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Using the Process Integration Monitoring (PIMon) Home

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to access SAP Process Integration Monitoring

SAP Process Integration Monitoring Options

Each SAP Process Integration (PI) Java installation has a centralized administration application called the SAP NetWeaver Administrator (NWA). The SAP NWA also enables the monitoring of installed process integration components on SAP NetWeaver, as on Java. Process integration provides monitoring of its Java components, such as the Advanced Adapter Engine (AAE) through the SAP NWA.

The monitoring of process integration components is provided by an application known as Configuration and Monitoring Home (also known as Process Integration Monitoring (PIMon)). All the monitoring and administrative capabilities that the SAP NWA provides for process integration are also accessible through the PIMon application. This enables the administrator to use a single tool for monitoring PI Java components.

Hint

PiMon is also available in a dual usage PI system. The Integration Engine (IE) and Business process Engine can be monitored and administered from here. This enables the administrator to use a single tool for monitoring both ABAP and JAVA components.

To start PIMon, use a URL that is built in the following way: http://<server>:<port>/PIMon. You can obtain the appropriate URL for your system from your system administrator.

SAP Process Integration Monitoring Tabs

The types of tools for each specific application area are as follows:

Common: You can perform Component Monitoring in the Common area, where you can get insight into the health status of the individual components of SAP NewWeaver PI.
Adapter Engine: The Adapter Engine configuration offers an interface to define rules for the prioritization of message processing, configure the archiving of messages processed on the AAE, schedule the background processing of routine tasks, and specify the fields in the payload or header to retrieve messages.

Testing

With the test functions in PIMon, you can simulate a message flow and verify that the SAP PI runtime is functioning correctly by sending a test message to the IE or AAE.

You can also inspect the cache connectivity status of the infrastructure components of SAP PI and test their connectivity with the runtime caches.

Migration Tool Overview

The directory content migration tool provides migration and mass change functionality for SAP PI scenarios and channels. The tool supports all releases from XI 3.0 on i.e. 3.0, 7.0, 7.1, 7.11, 7.3, 7.31 and 7.4. The tool can be accessed via http(s)://<host>:<port>/pimon -> Configuration and Administration -> Migration Tool where the host and port are part of a target system and can be AEX, PO, or AAE of the dual stack system.

Channel Migration

Channel migration is used for migrating the communication channels. The tool allows you to select multiple channels from a source system to adapt the adapter engine, metadata version, channel attributes, and module properties and to create or update these channels in the target systems. Depending on the type of channels selected, you can edit the properties in different sections.

With SAP PO 7.5 SP21 a new feature was introduced to add attributes from the Adapter Metadata, which are not yet used by the Communication Channel. For more information refer to note: 2964859 - Migration Tool: add additional attributes.

Configuration

Configuration migration is used to configure the systems that can be used as the source systems (you can select the available systems or you can add manually) and also to create any renaming rules for renaming the objects such as Communication channels, Business components, Party, and Routing expressions.

Scenario Migration

The migration tool is used to migrate all the objects that correspond with a complete configuration scenario. The complete configuration scenario migration is based on the sender agreement (receiver determination if a sender agreement does not exist, as in the case of IDOC or PROXY). The tool gets all the objects of the complete configuration scenario by traversing through the sender agreement (receiver determination) until the receiver agreement of the respective configuration scenario.

How to Navigate SAP Process Integration Monitoring

DemoStart Demo

Demonstrate how to navigate through the different tabs.

Steps

Navigate the Monitoring tab page of theMonitoring Home Application.
1. In the browser, call http://nwktdc00.wdf.sap.corp:50000/dir.
2. On the SAP Process Integration screen, choose the Configuration and Monitoring Home link.
3. On the Monitoring Home screen, under the Monitoring tab page, navigate through all the tabs.
4. Explained that in a dual-usage system there will be more options as the ABAP engines will be available for monitoring and administration.
5. Open Monitoring → Adapter Engine → Message Monitor and show a message sent, explain the different tabs. Show the content of the message and the log.
6. Open Monitoring → Mapping Runtime and show the mapping programs available in the cache.
7. As an introduction to the next lesson being in one of the monitors such as Message Monitor or the Mapping Runtime, choose the Home link and it should take you to SAP NetWeaver Administrator. Explain that PIMON is only and entry point to all the tools needed but many of them belong to NWA. In a dual-usage PI system, many of the monitors and administration tools will be also ABAP transactions.

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