SAPOSCOL - Operating System Collector

Ø  What is SAPOSCOL ?

SAPOSCOL is a stand-alone program that runs in the operating system background. It runs independently of SAP instances exactly once per monitored host. collects data about operating system resources like,

• Usage of virtual

• Usage physical memory

• CPU Utilization

• Utilization of physical disks 

• Utilization of file systems

• Resource usage of running processes

Ø  How it works ?

• SAPOSCOL runs exactly once on each host.

• SAPOSCOL runs independently of the SAP system.

By default, SAPOSCOL collects the current data every ten seconds and records it, and records the hourly averages for the last 24 hours, The data is stored in shared memory.  This data will be fetched by background job “SAP_COLLECTOR_FOR_PERFORMANCE” and writes it to the MONI performance database table.

Ø  How to check the SAPOSCOL data ?

At SAP level you can view the information collected by SAPOSCOL using tcodes/transactions ST06, OS06 & OS07.

Ø  SAPOSCOL Administration from OS Level

Login to Server as SIDADM user

SAPOSCOL Stop
saposcol -k

SAPOSCOL Start
saposcol -l

Check SAPOSCOL status
saposcol -s

Ø  SAPOSCOL administration from GUI

• Execute transaction OS07N
• Select from the left panel (Marked as 1)
• Expand 'Additional functions' and choose 'Administrator SAPOSCOL'       (Marked as 2)
• Select the command "Start, Stop or Status" from top menu (Marked as 3)

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