Network management system recommendations

I have been looking at some network management systems such as SolarWinds, but I would like to kick the question back to the community to see what you guys recommend.
I am looking for a powerful, uniform, monitoring system that includes the following:
1. Network device management (syslog, configuration management, inventory, device tracker [like CW CampusManager], etc.)
2. Application monitoring (checking if hyperlinks are working, availability, etc.)
3. Database monitoring (SQL query response times, etc.)
4. QoS monitoring (jitter, delay, SLA, etc.)
5. Alerts
Anything beyond this would be a plus.
I am looking for the "best" solution out there in terms of performance and features ...

NetFlow and IPSLA are different technologies.
Cisco NetFlow captures header information from actual IP traffic passing through router interfaces and reports on traffic usage, applications used, souce and destination of traffic, port and protocol used, ToS, DSCP, next hop and so on. Using NetFlow you can see who is using your bandwidth, what application is being used, etc.
Cisco IPSLA is a feature from Cisco that lets you measure the performance of a link using simulated packets and reports on jitter, latency, packet loss, Round-Trip time, packet loss, link availability, etc.
In short, NetFlow is used for bandwidth monitoring and traffic analysis of actual IP traffic that is passing through a link and IPSLA is used to measure how a link will perform when traffic passes through it.
Cisco supports both features - NetFlow and IPSLA.
IPSLA needs Cisco devices with IPSLA support at the source and destination ends with atleast IOS 12.3(14)T
NetFlow is exported as UDP packets to a flow analyzer tool - many tools use 9996 or 2055 for NetFlow export
IPSLA requires routers with Cisco IPSLA capability and IPSLA stats is collected via SNMP.
There are tools in the market which can monitor both. We at ManageEngine have NetFlow Analyzer, which supports NetFlow and IPSLA in addition to many more monitoring technologies like Cisco NBAR, WAAS monitoring, Cisco Medianet, etc.
Cisco NBAR is a deep packet inspection technology which analyzes data packets to report on application usage. NBAR can detect applications hiding behind well know ports or using random ports and you can also further use NBAR to define your QoS polcies.
If you need to know more on the software that can monitor these technologies, you can contact ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer support at netflowanalyzer-support 'at' manageengine. com
Regards,
Don Thomas Jacob
www.netflowanalyzer.com
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Please let me know if there is a place to get the User Guide for Oracle Utilities Network Management System (Formerly SPL)
Thanks,

The Network Management Systems (NMS) user guide with all other documentation for the current release is available on edelivery
http://edelivery.oracle.com
under the Oracle Utilities Applications product pack.
You will need to download the Oracle Utilities Network Management System Releaase 1.9.0 Documentation pack in order to get the User Guide.
Edited by: user590375 on Jun 5, 2009 8:26 AM

Network Management System procedure

Hi All,
I have some confusion about the subject. Please correct me if i am wrong
There are two techniques to have compelte network management system.
Netflow Analyzer
IP SLA
Question:
Both supported by cisco?
Both use snmp (not sure)?
Both use specific port (like netflow use 9996 but dont know ip sla use or not)?
Both monitor network ?
Both can be monitered by one software?
what is nbar?

NetFlow and IPSLA are different technologies.
Cisco NetFlow captures header information from actual IP traffic passing through router interfaces and reports on traffic usage, applications used, souce and destination of traffic, port and protocol used, ToS, DSCP, next hop and so on. Using NetFlow you can see who is using your bandwidth, what application is being used, etc.
Cisco IPSLA is a feature from Cisco that lets you measure the performance of a link using simulated packets and reports on jitter, latency, packet loss, Round-Trip time, packet loss, link availability, etc.
In short, NetFlow is used for bandwidth monitoring and traffic analysis of actual IP traffic that is passing through a link and IPSLA is used to measure how a link will perform when traffic passes through it.
Cisco supports both features - NetFlow and IPSLA.
IPSLA needs Cisco devices with IPSLA support at the source and destination ends with atleast IOS 12.3(14)T
NetFlow is exported as UDP packets to a flow analyzer tool - many tools use 9996 or 2055 for NetFlow export
IPSLA requires routers with Cisco IPSLA capability and IPSLA stats is collected via SNMP.
There are tools in the market which can monitor both. We at ManageEngine have NetFlow Analyzer, which supports NetFlow and IPSLA in addition to many more monitoring technologies like Cisco NBAR, WAAS monitoring, Cisco Medianet, etc.
Cisco NBAR is a deep packet inspection technology which analyzes data packets to report on application usage. NBAR can detect applications hiding behind well know ports or using random ports and you can also further use NBAR to define your QoS polcies.
If you need to know more on the software that can monitor these technologies, you can contact ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer support at netflowanalyzer-support 'at' manageengine. com
Regards,
Don Thomas Jacob
www.netflowanalyzer.com
NOTE: Please rate posts and close questions if your query has been answered

Network Management system for our LAN/WAN

Hello Everyone,
We have a Cisco network covering around 350 staff, in 8 floors, and recommended Management system to monitor the network , showing the bottleneck, performance, download speed for each client, it will be great if the tool is covering both LAN and WAN network.
Is there any free tools from Cisco can do the job? if not pls advise
Best Regards

Sure - just remember free to buy is not the same as free to own. Open source tools usually require a larger investment in configuring things yourself and usually (but not always) come without any sort of option for paid support.
Many people put together a system with Nagios (fault management), Cacti (performance management) and RANCID (configuration management). Each is free and community-supported. If you or your organization is comfortable setting up some Linux servers and customizing some files and templates you can have a quite workable system using those tools.
If you want a lower cost of entry with paid support options, consider something like Spiceworks, What's Up Gold, or the entry level products from SolarWinds (Kiwi syslog manager, cattools, engineer's toolset etc.).

Change Management - System Recommendations

Hello experts,
I've installed Support Package 27 on SAP Solution Manager 7.0 EhP1. This version provides the function "System Recommendations", it's a part of Change Management. If I choose in System Recommendations the Solution Manager itself, it works fine and shows me all important notes. But if I choose another system, the following message appears:
"Currently no data specific to this technical system has been calculated. You can add it to the automatic check by pressing the Settings link and you can also press the Refresh link for an immediate result."
Pressing the button "Refresh" has only the effect, that the sand clock appears ... nothing else happens
Any idea or a solution for this problem?
Thanks and best regards,
Max Power

In the meantime I found the following error:
A Error Code TIME_OUT.
A Module $Id: //bas/701_REL/src/krn/th/thhiserv.c#7 $ SAP.
A Function ThTimeout Line 1770.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_STDERR completed.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_RFC_ERROR entered.
M ThCMDEAL (21444871)
M ThICMDEAL (21444871, ..)
M ThCPIC: execute cpic func DEALLOCATE
M DpGetCpicCommIdx: found index 130 via tm_adm
M found comm entry 130 (tid/uid/mode/conv_id/a_r: 48/10393/0/21444871/0)
M ThCPIC: last_ftype/last_timeout/last_requested_length/last_receive_data 1/-1/-1/0
M ThCPIC: allowed rq_type of T48/M0 = TH_APPC_RC_RQ
M ThConnectToLocGw: connect to local gateway
M GwConnectSapWp: connect to gateway >localhost< >sapgw01<
M NiHsLGetNodeAddr: found hostname 'localhost' in cache
M NiIGetNodeAddr: hostname 'localhost' = addr 127.0.0.1
M NiHsLGetServNo: got service name 'sapgw01' from operating system
M NiIGetServNo: servicename 'sapgw01' = port 0C.E5/3301
M NiICreateHandle: hdl 5 state NI_INITIAL
M NiIInitSocket: set default settings for new hdl 5 / sock 15 (UD; ST)
M NiIBlockMode: set blockmode for hdl 5 FALSE
M NiIConnectSocket: connection of hdl 5 established to /tmp/.sapstream3301
M NiIConnect: state of hdl 5 NI_CONNECTED
M NiIWrite: hdl 5 sent data (wrt=136,pac=1,MESG_IO)
M NiIRead: hdl 5 recv would block (errno=EAGAIN)
M NiIRead: hdl 5 received data (rcd=136,pac=2,MESG_IO)
M GwConnectSapWp: connect to gateway localhost / sapgw01 (pid = 2490522) o.k.
M ThISend: (tm/user/type/info = 48/<username> /0x80/0x0, mode_deleted=0)
M    GATEWAY
M abap strategy ROLL / O.K.
M ThRqOutCheck: o.k.
M ThNewWpStat (type=0x80, task_switch=0, inline_hold=0, hand_shake=0, debug=0, ..)
M ThNewWpStat: new state of T48/M0 = 0x24
M ThISend: new wp stat: 0x0
M Adresse   Offset APPC-Data to Gateway
M
M 0x70000002096e8c0 000000 060b0200 28990021 00000000 00000000 ....(..!........
M 0x70000002096e8d0 000016 00ffffff ff000000 00000000 00000000 ................
M 0x70000002096e8e0 000032 00000000 00000000 32313434 34383731 ........21444871
M 0x70000002096e8f0 000048 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................
M 0x70000002096e900 000064 00000000 00000000 00000000 00820136 ...............6
M
M ThDtAppcBlk: detach APPC ca_blk 8
M ThAppcBlkToGw: make gw owner of appc_ca_blk 8
M ThISend: stat_state = TH_STAT_NOT_ACTIVE
M ThSendToLocGw: send sap wp rq to local gateway
M -OUT- tid         48            uid 10393        mode 0
M -OUT- appc_ca_blk 8             len 80           rq_id 9879
M -OUT- wait_f_answ 0             cmd 0
M
M NiIWrite: hdl 5 sent data (wrt=28,pac=1,MESG_IO)
M ThISend: don't wake up dispatcher
M DpVmcGetVmByTmAdm: no VM found for T48/M0/I0
M LOCK APPC ca_blk 9
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_RFC_ERROR completed.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_RFC_CLOSE entered.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_RFC_CLOSE completed.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_IMC_ERROR entered.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_IMC_ERROR completed.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_DATASET_CLOSE entered.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_DATASET_CLOSE completed.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_ERROR_SAVE entered.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_ERROR_SAVE completed.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_ERROR_TPDA entered.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_ERROR_TPDA completed.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_PXA_RELEASE_RUDI entered.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_PXA_RELEASE_RUDI completed.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_LIVE_CACHE_CLEANUP entered.
M RmCleanUpResources3: hdr/tbl/ext_tbl/free/keep = 0x7000000002c2480/(nil)/0/0/1
M RmCleanUpResources3: no resources registered
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_LIVE_CACHE_CLEANUP completed.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_END entered.
A ** RABAX: level LEV_RX_END completed.
M SigIRegisterHook: cleared hook for signal 11
M SigIRegisterHook: cleared hook for signal 10
A ** RABAX: end RX_RETURN
A Time limit exceeded..
A
M ThTimeout: no online user, delete mode
M ThIAMDel: delete tid/mode 48/0 (th_errno 52, release 1)
M ThIDeleteMode (48, 0, 3, ><, 0, 255, TRUE)
M ThIDeleteMode: no modes found ..
M    no sub modes
M ThCheckMemoryState (0, 0, 1)
M ThIAMDel2: last active mode (0) delete tid (48)
M ThIUsrDel (52, 1)
M ThCheckMemoryState (0, 0, 1)
M ThIUsrDel: set status of T48 to TM_NEND
M ThResFree: free resources of U10393 M0 I0 (normal mode, complete free) at level 3, errno=52, db_action=TH_DB_ROLLBACK, pooling=1
M ThResFree: reset spa state for user T48/U10393/M0
M ThCheckMemoryState (0, 0, 1)
M ThCallHooks: call hook >ITSP: EndOfSession< for event BEFORE_SESSION_CANCEL
M ThCallHooks: call hook >HttpClearSession< for event BEFORE_SESSION_CANCEL
M ThCallHooks: call hook >abRtmClearSession< for event BEFORE_SESSION_CANCEL
M ThCallHooks: call hook >SpoolHandleHook< for event BEFORE_SESSION_CANCEL
M ThIRollBack
M ThIRollBack: call db_rollback
M ThCheckComOrRb (event=0, full_commit=1)
M ThCallHooks: call hook >ab_SosRfcBeforeRollback< for event BEFORE_ROLLBACK
M ThCallHooks: call hook >ASTAT-collect commit handling< for event BEFORE_ROLLBACK
M PfAStatRevertCollected: no entries to write
M ThCallHooks: call hook >dyKeyTableReset< for event BEFORE_ROLLBACK
M ThCallHooks: call hook >SpoolHandleHook< for event BEFORE_ROLLBACK
M ThCheckComOrRb (event=2, full_commit=1)
M ThCallHooks: call hook >ThVBICmRbHook< for event AFTER_ROLLBACK
M ThVBICmRbHook: called for rollback
M ThVBIRollBackRedo: got 0 entries to delete again
M ThShortCommit: call db_commit98 (keep resources)
M ThCheckComOrRb (event=1, full_commit=0)
M ThCheckComOrRb (event=3, full_commit=0)
M ThShortCommit o.k.
M ThCallHooks: call hook >ThNoClearPrevErr< for event AFTER_ROLLBACK
M ThNoClearPrevErr: clear prev no err
M ThCallHooks: call hook >rsts_after_rollback< for event AFTER_ROLLBACK
M ThCallHooks: call hook >ThNoResetMutex< for event AFTER_ROLLBACK
M ThNoCheckMutex: check for remaining locked intervals
M ThCallHooks: call hook >SpoolHandleHook< for event AFTER_ROLLBACK
M ThICommit3: full commit, set time, free resources, redispatch
M ThICommit3: commit and free resources
M ThCheckComOrRb (event=1, full_commit=1)
M ThCallHooks: call hook >ab_SosShmBeforeCommit< for event BEFORE_COMMIT
M ThCallHooks: call hook >ab_SosRfcBeforeCommit< for event BEFORE_COMMIT
M ThCallHooks: call hook >ASTAT-collect commit handling< for event BEFORE_COMMIT
M ThCallHooks: call hook >rsts_before_commit< for event BEFORE_COMMIT
M ThCheckComOrRb (event=3, full_commit=1)
M ThCallHooks: call hook >ThVBICmRbHook< for event AFTER_COMMIT
M ThVBICmRbHook: called for commit
M ThCallHooks: call hook >ThNoClearPrevErr< for event AFTER_COMMIT
M ThNoClearPrevErr: clear prev no err
M ThCallHooks: call hook >rsts_after_commit< for event AFTER_COMMIT
M ThCallHooks: call hook >dyKeyTableRest< for event AFTER_COMMIT
M ThCallHooks: call hook >SpoolHandleHook< for event AFTER_COMMIT
M ThrClearMemory o.k.
M ThCallHooks: call hook >db_x_short_mem_sync_point< for event AFTER_STORAGE_FREE
M ThCallHooks: call hook >rsts_storage_free< for event AFTER_STORAGE_FREE
M ThAlarm: set alarm to 600 sec
M ThICommit3 o.k.
M PfStatDisconnect: disconnect statistics
M ThDealComm: T48/U10393/M0 has no cpic conns
M clean up all internal modes of T48/U10393/M0

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Hi All,
got several switches on LAN(6509,2950,2960,3550,3560,2550) & serveral routerz on the WAN, i am looking for a network monitoring tool where i should get alert over email & sms, so can any one suggest which is the best tool?

Hello Anandana,
There are many tools out there. I give you two options, one published under the GPL license:
Just For Fun Network Management System -- http://www.jffnms.org
and a commercial product from Cisco:
CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution 2.5 -- http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/cscowork/ps2425/index.html
If you have questions regarding CiscoWorks you can post them in the network management section section.
HTH
--Leon
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I need user management system in PHP recommendations to work with Flex client side

Hi All,
I have a very big project that involves PHP server side (That i have to develop) and Flex client side. I was wondering it there is a ready made PHP user management system that i can use to provide me:
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- forgot my password functionality
- register (better with captcha)
Does someone can recommend this kind of php system?

Hi, guys
Free and open source PHP User Management Scripts. These scripts provide a solution of creating a membership system of a website.
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MAI for managed systems residing in separate network

Hello!
We are considering to implement the new Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure (MAI) with Diagnostics Agents for our SAP systems.
The most of our SAP managed systems reside in separate network (differ from SOLMAN network).
In order to retrieve CCMS-data from these systems we must use RFC connections within SAP router string.
Has someone already successfully set up MAI for managed systems that reside in separate network?
Of great interest are the information about
1) Integration of these systems into DBACOCKPIT of SOLMAN
2) Installation of Diagnostic Agent on remote host
Many thanks for your information.

Hello SAP-SDN,
as for your initial question:
Has someone already successfully set up MAI for managed systems that reside in separate network?
Of great interest are the information about
1) Integration of these systems into DBACOCKPIT of SOLMAN
2) Installation of Diagnostic Agent on remote host
1.- actually on process, but still don0t found any problem to do on remote network trought sapruter.
2.- actually working and running, the unique limitation is the connection between willy hostagent and wily EM.
as for your next question:
1a) database related data in your Alerting (e.g. tablespaces)
1b) database related data in your IT Performance Reporting/Interactive Reporting (e.g. growth of database)
1c) DBACOCKPIT connection for the remote SAP system
1a) for ewa ABAP you can get that information from a remote netwaork managed system without any problem
1b) for ewa ABAP you can get that information from a remote netwaork managed system without any problem
1c) still on process, but i think that can be possible as well is possible to connect the remote SMD diagnostic agent trought one or more saprouters.

[Gnome 3] Network Manager can only create system connections

Hello,
Coming from ubuntu, I installed Arch with Gnome 3 (didn't like unity). I have a small annoyance with Network manager from [testing]. When I select a wireless network, it asks for my sudo password and creates a system connection under /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections. Even when unchecking "Available for all users" in nm-connection-editor afterwards, the settings are kept in /etc instead of gconf/dconf and gnome-keyring as was the case in ubuntu (don't know if that was also the case in arch with gnome 2).
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Any ideas?

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[SOLVED]No Network Manager Icon in system tray

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The applet appears loaded at startup like so:
Any help?
Last edited by 655321 (2010-06-14 22:07:20)

will do and come back with results
Back, Ok that was very helpfull, as soon as I see the last post I realized that indeed I DONT have network manager listed on my daemons, and thats why there is no icon, and the fact that I still have Internet and stuff its because im using the old configuration (the one from the beginners guide).
Im pretty sure thats the reason so I will go ahead and test it and come back with hopefully good results.
DONE
Problem was exactly that, you have to disable "network" daemon from rc.conf and put "networkmanager" there.
cheers and thanks for the help.
Last edited by 655321 (2010-06-14 22:02:57)

Please recommend network management software

Hello!
I need help to find some network management software that will work with our switches. I'm running a network that has Cisco/Linksys managed switches:
10xSLM2008,
5xSRW208,
2xSRW2008MP,
1xSF 300-08
I was hoping there is management software (not the webview/web browser thing), that could do these things (in preferred order):
- connect to these by SNMP (or similar) to show me a little statistics on each port on each switch, along with connectivity between these switches.
- let me know which port knows which mac addresses, and maybe also the IP addresses of these.
- let me know which mac addresses uses most bandwidth
- ban a mac address
I'd be happy if anybody could give me an advice on what software to buy.
Best regards,
Lars E Fodnes

It can't ban a MAC address, but that is what dot1x/port security is for. I'm not sure if your switches support it, but you can look into that from the switch standpoint.

Xfce4 and gnome-network-manager [solved]

I just made a clean install of archlinux. installed xorg and Xfce4, xfce-goodies, gnome-panel, gnome-desktop and gnome-network-manager. also I enabled GNOME services in startup and sessions. how do I start that network manager now? is nowhere in the settings, nor there is icon to add to the taskbar (i got xfapplets installed too)
Last edited by anarxi (2009-01-14 00:22:42)

quoted from a previous thread
I solved it by uncommenting my <locale><charset> in /etc/locale.gen.
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As we want to setup an english UTF-8 conform system, we want to enable en_US.UTF-8. But for compatibility to programs that don't support UTF-8 yet, it's recommended to support any other locale, prefixed with en_US as well. Having this in mind, we enable this set of locales:
en_US.UTF8 UTF-8
en_US ISO-8859-1
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# sudo locale-gen
Generating locales...
en_US.UTF-8... done
en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
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Best Approach for integrating SAP CRM with Outage Management System

Hi All,
We are moving towards deploying Outage Management System (Oracle Utilities NMS) to help localize the fault, achieve Outage Management and a transparent network with a near-real time stats. We already have SAP ECC 6.0, ISU, SAP PI 7.0 and SAP CRM 7.0. One of the challenges we are facing is to decide how should we go about the integration of SAP CRM with Oracle's Outage Management System.
Here is a sample business scenario,
CSR receives a call from a consumer and inquires about planned outages for a particular area.
This information is contained in the Outage Management System (OMS). OMS is SOA based and is hosted on Oracle Service Bus.
I want to know that is there any ES Bundles available for CRM-OMS integration? Should we go about Service Based Integration? What are the alternatives to Service based integration? Can it be done using BAPIs?
We receive around 1000 consumer complains and against every complain a ticket is generated in CRM. Now If CRM is integrated with OMS using SAP PI, the volume of the data being exchanged via PI is very much high and exceeds our licensed volume for SAP PI. So I do need to know the best practices for either approach that you may recommend.
Regards,
Adil Khalil

does anyone have an idea about this one, I've asked this question in a few places and no one really seems clear about it.
Also, I've read here and there that SAP Business One is not a real SAP product. It was bought by SAP and is sold by them but has little do to with SAP's technology (R/3, SAP ERP, Netweaver, SAP CRM, ...), and that therefore they don't support it that much ? Is any of this right ?
I'm just trying to get my vision of the SAP universe clear.
Angela

SolMan 7.1 SP10: Managed Systems Configuration: client 000 OK, client 100 error

Hello,
after installing SolMan 7.1 SP10 successfully I also completed the steps "System Preparation" and "Basic Configuration".
Now I'm connecting the managed ABAP systems to the Solution Manager by performing step "Managed Systems Configuration".
After several other ABAP systems I'm now connecting our productive CRM 7.0 EHP1 system "CM3" (SAP_BASIS 702).
I also connected the CRM development and CRM quality assurance system without a problem.
For client 000 everything worked fine, the RFC destinations were created and a green light is shown.
Now the problem is to connect the productive client 100:
The log for Activity RFC Connection says:
The corresponding dev_rfc tracefile says:
**** Trace file opened at 20140326 164911 W. Europe Standard Time, by disp+work
**** Versions SAP-REL 720,0,523 RFC-VER U 3 1468763 MT-SL
======> Name oder Kennwort ist nicht korrekt (Wiederholen Sie die Anmeldung)
ABAP Programm: SAPLSM_SETUP_API (Transaction: )
Called function module: FUNCTION_EXISTS
User: SOLMAN_ADMIN (Client: 001)
Destination: 0050568713C71ED3AD9FC4F78AC9D9EB (Handle: 16, DtConId: 27FEB4E356BCF14F99EB0050568713C7, DtConCnt: 1, ConvId: 64734943,{27FEB4E3-56BC-F14F-99EB-0050568713C7})
EPP RootContextId: 0050568713C71ED3AD9FB7AD4C4859EB, ConnectionId: 0050568713C71ED3AD9FB784232C59EB, ConnectionCnt: 1
EPP TransactionId: BDFDB4E3626AF14899EB0050568713C7
But both users taken to execute this step (SAP Solution Manager Administrator "SOLMAN_ADMIN" and Managed System Configuration User "SM_ADMIN_SM3") exist and have the correct provided password.
Does anyone have a clue?
Kind regards
Rüdiger Höckel

Hello Ranjith,
thanks for your quick response.
The ST-A/PI software component is the same on all systems: 01Q_700 #2.
SolMan system: SM3
CRM systems: CM0 (ok), CM1 (ok), CM3 (problem with client 100, client 000 OK).
I also tried the recommendation found in the SAP Community Network
(http://scn.sap.com/thread/3483642) but this didn't help either:
1.Delete system from LMDB.
2.Delete system from SLD of solman.
3.Re- register the system to SLD of solman(rz70 for AS ABAP)
[the LMDB synchronizes with the SLD every 10 minutes, system CM3 is visible again in the LMDB]
4.Now follow the steps in managed system configuration.
The wizard worked fine for client 000 but throws this error for client 100.
I use all the latest installation and configuration guides.
For this step I'm using the guide "Managed System Configuration" that is available in the SOLMAN_SETUP wiki.
https://websmp206.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700001120342013E.pdf
Kind regards
Rüdiger
P.S. In total I have already connected eight systems (SAP_BASIS 700 to 731) but this is the first system that gives an error.

I'm looking for a document management system

Hi there,
I'm looking for a way to organize, sort, and make searchable about 1200 Microsoft Word Documents. The way our company uses them is to search for individual documents, and also to group them to create customized packets that are used for training.
Once a group is created, I need a way to print easily. The other problem is that 60% of the documents are designed for learning so they have an instructors filled in part, and a learners blank part.
Question 1: Should I separate each document, make the instructor version a separate file? Today, it is one file, with page 1 for the instructor and page 2 for the learner (some docs have more than one page.
Question 2: Does anyone know of a web plugin or app that will take a collection of word documents, and automatically combine them into 1?
2 years ago, we created a php searchable system and uploaded all docs into it. It workds pretty well for organizing, searching, grouping, and adding comments about the docs... BUT when it comes time to print, it only downloads a folder filled with all the SEPARATE word files. They are numbered, but because they are not one doc, page numbering is a bear, and each doc has a instructor and learner page... for printing, the trainer needs to tell the office staff which page to print for each handout. the instructor copy or leaner copy. Once a master is made, we photocopy it. So the question: Is there an easier way to create 1 file with all the pages? Like convert to PDF or to a single MS Word document?
Any suggestions are welcome!
PS: while we are an all mac shop, we do have a dedicated webserver running linux that we could use.
PPS: I will have interns this summer, so if the solution involves converting all of our MS word docs into something else like pages, I'm all for it...

It sounds to me like DevonThink might just replace the php system that you already have.
One way to tackle this might be to look at automating the combining process, rather than changing the overall management system. Various thoughts:
If the docs were pdfs, a program like CombinePDFs would let you drag and drop all the files onto a screen, re-order them if necessary, and then hit Merge (actually, I think Preview would let you do this, in Leopard). That might help. However, I don't think it would put on page numbers.
I'm pretty sure Acrobat would let you combine the PDFs and add page numbers, or perhaps take the combined pdf file and just add page numbers to that. (Not sure if this might require Acrobat for Windows)
Alternatively, you could tweak the docs themselves so that they use a form of chapter numbering, eg: "PDF Introduction-1, PDF Introduction-2" and "PDF-Advanced-1, PDF-Advanced 2" and then not worry about the page numbers. I wouldn't exactly recommend this, as it's pretty useless to say "turn to page PDF-Intermediate 3" and have people find that page, but it's been done.
Since they are already Word docs, though, it might be best to stick with Word. Word 2008 has Automator and Applescript, and it should be possible to write an Automator or Applescript such you just drop the documents on an Automator app, and it combines them, adds or updates the page numbers, maybe creates a Table of Contents, and spits out an assembled document.
That said, I don't know how to do that. There is a Combine Word Documents automator action, certainly. You could try asking over in the Word forums:
http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/Word/
Or here's a macro that should work in Word 2004 (but not 2008)
http://www.gaebler.com/How-to-Combine-Multiple-Word-Documents-into-One-Document. htm
This will work best if all the docs are formatted consistently, based on the same template. If they are not consistently formatted, then the formatting will probably change when you combine them in Word, and that would be an argument for converting them to PDF before combining them. It should also be possible to create an Automator action that will convert all the docs in a folder to PDF.
I doubt there is going to be anyway to automate the instructor/learner copy--someone will have to do that manually, but it does suggest that if you create separate files for each one, it will be easier to do the search, download the found files from the resulting folder, and then manually just delete the learner file from the folder rather than having to open up the instructor file and delete part of it.
So, some potential experiments to try. Hope that helps.
Automator to convert the docs to PDF and then Acrobat to combine and number the pages might be your best bet.

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