On one of my project SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SPS8 was used as main monitoring tool. SAP Web Dispatcher was used in the landscape as a load balancer. Obviously availability of Web Dispatcher must be monitored. Unfortunately default SAP template for that purpose in technical monitoring didn’t work for me and I had to look for other options.

As usual after searching the SCN I found couple of topics on forum and that particular article that was a starting point for me. I found there a link to How-to: Create Custom CCMS Metrics and Alerts document and that was enough for needed configuration.

In that post I want to share with you more detailed guide that I created during configuration steps. read more »