Trapping AF errors using Alert framework in XI 3.0 SP13

Question

Hi
   I am trying to setup alert categories and rules to trap AF related errors - like a SOAP receiver adapter failing to call a webservice etc...
I came across earlier threads that mentioned, alerts will not be triggered involving AF in SP13 - in other words, one has to be on SP14 inorder for the alerts involving AF to be triggered - irrespective of all the settings being done to trigger alerts in SP13 ( End-to-End monitoring, SXMSALERT_PROCESS_DATA_GET etc )
Is the above statement true ??
Thanks for your time in advance.

Answer 1

here is an extract on how to do
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e5/5d1741b393f26fe10000000a1550b0/content.htm
Configuring CCMS Alerts for the Adapter Engine
If processing of a message on the Adapter Engine fails, the message state is changed to faulty. To notify administrators immediately of such processing failures, they can be propagated as alerts to CCMS. As CCMS is the SAP standard interface to third-party monitoring tools, these failure events may also become visible in non-SAP monitoring tools.
Configuration Steps
To make use of Adapter Engine alerts, you must configure the connection to CCMS as follows:
1. Make sure that the J2EE engine on which the Adapter Engine is running is configured to be monitored by the central CCMS system.
To do so, execute transaction RZ20 on your central monitor server. There, the J2EE engine should be visible in the CCMS monitor under SAP J2EE Monitor Templates ® All Systems. If not, follow the steps described in the Supportability Setup Guide for SAP NetWeaver 04 on SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/nw04operation ® Cross-NW.
2. Check whether the Adapter Engine is configured to report errors to CCMS.
To do so, start the Visual Administrator and select service SAP XI AF Core. The value of property CCMSEnabled must be set to true (in lower case letters). If it is not, change the property value to true and restart the service.
To verify that the setting is effective, select the Visual Administrator Monitoring service. Under Root ® Applications, you should see a node for the Adapter Engine.
cheers,
Naveen