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Don´t be a stranger to SAP Solution Manager´s monitoring and alerting infrastructure! With this book, you´ll get the expert knowledge you need to confidently wield all of the many tools, functions, and options that SAP Solution Manager offers. From configuration to application, learn how to use everything that´s at your disposal to make your SAP system as efficient as possible.

1. Configuration and Architecture
Get the basics: how SAP Solution Manager works in your unique system landscape, what its different areas are, and how to set it up.

2. Technical Monitoring
Learn about the new monitoring and alerting infrastructure and understand how it will help automate your system landscape monitoring and analyze your system´s performance and status.

3. Special Situations
Supplement general monitoring with the native monitoring capabilities of different SAP technologies, such as SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP NetWeaver PI.

4. Management and Control
Data Volume Management and Job Scheduling Management are key for technical operations. Control your system and increase its cost efficiency with these tools.

5. Real-World Example Scenario
Follow along as a medium-sized toy company configures and uses SAP Solution Manager to monitor its system and meet its specific business needs.

Highlights include:

Architecture and configuration
Diagnostics agents
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Alerts and change analysis
Data Volume Management
Job Scheduling Management
Root cause analysis
End-user experience monitoring
Business process monitoring and operations
Authorizations

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Teuber, Lars
Lars Teuber holds a degree in Information Management and worked at SAP SI AG in Dresden, Germany, from 2003 to 2007. While working on projects for national and international customers, he gained experience in system monitoring and performance reporting. Since 2008, he has worked at BIT Consulting GmbH in Dresden, Germany, where he has been able to expand his knowledge of SAP Solution Manager in SAP Solution Manager development projects. He works in system monitoring, performance analysis, and implementation of SAP Solution Manager in projects with regard to both design and implementation.

Weidmann, Corina
Corina Weidmann is the managing director of Bautzen IT.Group GmbH & Co. KG in Dresden, Germany. In this role, she oversees the area of application lifecycle management with SAP Solution Manager.

Will, Liane
Liane Will has been working in the Active Global Support department at SAP AG since 1998. She gained her experience in the system operation of SAP solutions by supporting customers in solving problems and establishing best practices in system operation. She manages a team that focuses on the implementation and optimization of the application lifecycle management based on SAP Solution Manager. Based on her extensive support experience, she´s already the author of a number of books (published by SAP PRESS) on best practices in system administration. Before she joined SAP, Liane developed SAP support tools for databases.

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