Installing and configuring the SAP Agent Adapter

Use the following procedure to install and configure the SAP monitor at a copy of the agent program.

  1. Install the SAP extensions at a new or existing site.  

    The SAP extensions are typically installed via a self-extracting WinZip file, such as:

    wt-sap-x-x-x.exe

    The preceding file can be obtained from BMC support channels.

  2. If you use the BMC Defender Server or BMC AMI Command Center for Security, after installing the agent, click down into the IP address for the agent program, and click Edit Remote Config, to display the remote agent configuration.

  3. On the remote agent configuration screen, click Wizard to run the configuration wizard, and provide the following values in response to each screen: 

    Log File Monitor Type: Adapter
    Adapter Identifier:    SAP:
    Adapter Module:        SAP-adapter.dll
    Log File Monitor Path  (pathname to SAP audit file.)

    Use defaults for all other values. When the wizard finishes, the SAP Adapter has been added to the list of monitored logs.

Note

The pathname to the Log File Monitor (specified on the second screen of the Wizard) can contain wildcards or standard date and time notation to access the log file.


Example

A typical path may be a value such as: 

C:\SAP\Audit\%Y-%m-%d.aud

The above pathname will monitor a file in the SAP\Audit: folder, where the file name is in yyyy-mm-dd.aud format.

After adding the above entry, SAP audit records that are appended to the specified file are automatically sent to BMC. You can configure keyword overrides to filter messages or change the severities of the messages that are received.

For more information about keywords and general usage of the agent, see the BMC Defender Agent for Windows Manual, available on the home screen of BMC after installation.

 

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