guys, I have already read the documentation on help.sap.com and also ADM106 and ADM107 courses. So i am not gonna ask you about how to configure this and that. However, I have some basic questions about CCMS that I need some clarification on.
We have a 3 system ECC 6.0 landscape with dev, qa and prod. systems. My main goal of using CCMS is to use availability monitoring among other monitors. I would like to choose a CEN out of the 3 systems, but I do not understand which one to setup as CEN. In the SAP course documentation and advise from a basis friend tells me to setup the PROD system as CEN. But my question is that if i setup PROD as CEN, then how do i get alerted ( i plan to setup email auto alert norification) when the the CEN (i.e PROD) instances are down itself ???? In other words, if my Production Central Instance goes down due to lets say OS failure, then how will i get alerted because SAP wont be able to send any alert notification through email ??? And ofcourse Production is the system that one would be most worried about. So, Is setting up DEV or QA as the CEN a better option ????
Secondly, we also have sol man 7.0. I understand that you can use sol man to display the alerts in your satellite systems including the CEN in sol man. So, does this mean that sol man is only used to display all the alerts in a central location. It does not really do anything on its own, like auto reactions etc. Hence, even if i setup sol man and connect it to all my 3 systems, and lets say my Production DB server is down due to a power outage, no alert would get generated by sol man ???? OR WILL ONE BE ??? Also lets say the QA db server goes down. So will the auto reaction email be sent out from the my CEN (the production system) or the Sol. man ?
Thanks for reading. Any inputs would be appreciated.