How to configure Early Watch Alert (EWA) in SAP Solution manager

How to configure Early Watch Alert (EWA) report in solution manager.

                To configure EWA some specific settings to be done at managing system (Solution system) and satellite system or managed the system  for which EWA report to be generated Following are the steps to configure EWA in a satellite system

• Check whether latest versions of ST-A, ST-PI, ST-A/PI packages are installed in the Managed System and Satellite System

• If they are installed, execute Report  RTCCTOOL in Tcode SE38 from the satellite system.

          Check the output of the report. If there are some errors or warnings in the output of the report.

• Setup RFC connection between your satellite system and the SOLMAN System

             An RFC connection can be made between 2 systems using Tcode SM59

• Setup RFC connection between your solution manager and the SAP service market place

•  Assign the solution monitoring roles to the users, Setup your satellite system in a solution landscape of the solution manager(SMSY)

• Make sure SLD is configured and working fine for satellite system (using Rz70 and SLDCHECK Tcode)

• Activation of SDCCN in satellite system then confirm for SDCC_OSS destination creation

•   In the satellite system, goto SDCCN tcode and navigate to Goto -> Settings -> Task-specific.

           In the resulted screen, select RFC destination and provide the solution manager RFC from
           The satellite system and set solution manager RFC as the master system.

•  Addition of satellite system in solution manager system in SDCCN :

         Click on add system button to add the new SDCC to the solution manager. When prompted,                please select the respective system and client from the resulting screen and confirm

•  Early watch service session activation for satellite system:

           In the solution manager system, execute transaction code solution_manager  and navigate to operations -> Earlywatch Alert and press create button. This prompts you to confirm the date and time to run the report. Please provide the details and confirm to trigger the generation of                the report

• Login to the satellite system, go to transaction code SDCCN and press create a button which displays a screen to select a task to be executed. Select request session data task and click continue. You will be prompted to enter the scheduled time to run the report. Click now to execute it immediately. After that, you can see an early watch session running in SDCCN.

•  After completion of this session run successfully, an Earlywatch Alert will be generated and this can be viewed in Solution_manager of Solution manager system.