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  • SAP R/3 Agent for Pandora

    Posted by bitel on September 3, 2006 at 19:59

    Hi!

    I am interested in writing an agent for SAP R/3 Monitoring (in Level 7 of OSI, at Application Level, like a gateway between the “property standard” SAP CCMS Monitor and Pandora), but I do not have any Pandora system development server.

    Somebody could give me access for a development system ?

    Bye

    manu replied 18 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Sancho

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    You really dont need a development server, because you only need to generate a XML. If you want to create a custom unix agent, it will be easy using examples provided, if you want to make in Windows, be sure we help with coding. If you know some C++ source code is very descriptive and well documented, so will be easy too 🙂

    Please download documentation (also available in spanish) and see the XML schema, we currently are not using a DTD to validate XML, so will be easy to implemente a first version, and of course, we’ll help you to debug possible errors.

    In docs, you have some examples of XML and description of types, if you need I can provide you more XML examples or clarify any aspect of them.

    Thanks for the offering !, we will be in contact here in the forum or in pandora-develop mailling list (please subscribe in https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pandora-develop ).

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    Hi Slerena!

    I have tho more questions:
    – What versions of PHP is supported by Pandora Web Console? The SAPRFC librarys only is supported into PHP 4.1.1 and 5.1.1…
    – Somebody has created a version of Pandora Server (and Pandora Web Console) in a VMWare Image file and avaible for download? Yes, i know that in the case of build a new Agent is not necesary, but i wil happy with all the briks 🙂

    Bye,
    bitel

    You really dont need a development server, because you only need to generate a XML. If you want to create a custom unix agent, it will be easy using examples provided, if you want to make in Windows, be sure we help with coding. If you know some C++ source code is very descriptive and well documented, so will be easy too 🙂

    Please download documentation (also available in spanish) and see the XML schema, we currently are not using a DTD to validate XML, so will be easy to implemente a first version, and of course, we’ll help you to debug possible errors.

    In docs, you have some examples of XML and description of types, if you need I can provide you more XML examples or clarify any aspect of them.

    Thanks for the offering !, we will be in contact here in the forum or in pandora-develop mailling list (please subscribe in https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pandora-develop ).

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    About PHP versions:

    Pandora Console is working at this moment with 4.3. Of course it can run with 5.1.x or later versions. No problem !

    About VMWare image

    We’ll put a full VMWare Pandora demo when publish a final 1.2 version. We are finishing docs, because we are in Beta3 and final version will be the same as Beta3.

    Hi Slerena!
    I have tho more questions:
    – What versions of PHP is supported by Pandora Web Console? The SAPRFC librarys only is supported into PHP 4.1.1 and 5.1.1…
    – Somebody has created a version of Pandora Server (and Pandora Web Console) in a VMWare Image file and avaible for download? Yes, i know that in the case of build a new Agent is not necesary, but i wil happy with all the briks 🙂

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    Hi SLerena!

    Ok… The design architecture of my no-intrusive agent is like a little script runing in the PHP Web Console server for polling the SAP’s data , and next format the data in the Pandora’s XML data format.

    I calculate that in tree or four days i will have a first prototipe of all of this system 😀

    Ciao,
    Bitel

    About PHP versions:

    Pandora Console is working at this moment with 4.3. Of course it can run with 5.1.x or later versions. No problem !

    About VMWare image

    We’ll put a full VMWare Pandora demo when publish a final 1.2 version. We are finishing docs, because we are in Beta3 and final version will be the same as Beta3.

    Hi Slerena!
    I have tho more questions:
    – What versions of PHP is supported by Pandora Web Console? The SAPRFC librarys only is supported into PHP 4.1.1 and 5.1.1…
    – Somebody has created a version of Pandora Server (and Pandora Web Console) in a VMWare Image file and avaible for download? Yes, i know that in the case of build a new Agent is not necesary, but i wil happy with all the briks 🙂

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    Hi SLerena!
    Ok… The design architecture of my no-intrusive agent is like a little script runing in the PHP Web Console server for polling the SAP’s data , and next format the data in the Pandora’s XML data format.
    I calculate that in tree or four days i will have a first prototipe of all of this system 😀

    Bitel: Agent must be able to run in other place different to Pandora Console, and much more important, it needs to be executed as a script, not from Apache, but from shell. It will be automated on Cron or using a similar mechanism that use Pandora Unix agents, for example:



    …..
    …..
    …..
    …..

    Would be nice if PHP only generate XML and we’ll use a standard unix agent for doing the rest. Please ask for help when you need it 😉

  • bitel

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    Hi floks!

    My SAP Agent (or Module for monitoring SAP systems) are finished and uploaded at the Sourceforge site as contribution!

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155200&package_id=213783

    The main concept is that a Pandora Agent with this “add-on” connects via RFC protocol to the core CCMS monitor interface of a SAP system to extract the data, server it to Pandora Server

    Wow!

    Regards,
    Bitel

    Hi SLerena!
    Ok… The design architecture of my no-intrusive agent is like a little script runing in the PHP Web Console server for polling the SAP’s data , and next format the data in the Pandora’s XML data format.
    I calculate that in tree or four days i will have a first prototipe of all of this system 😀

    Bitel: Agent must be able to run in other place different to Pandora Console, and much more important, it needs to be executed as a script, not from Apache, but from shell. It will be automated on Cron or using a similar mechanism that use Pandora Unix agents, for example:



    …..
    …..
    …..
    …..

    Would be nice if PHP only generate XML and we’ll use a standard unix agent for doing the rest. Please ask for help when you need it 😉

  • manu

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    Oh oh oh nice! I will test it as soon as possible 🙂
    King regards, bitel 🙂