Configuration & Security Analysis
Configuration Monitoring capabilities within SAP Focused Run comprise the application Configuration & Security Analysis (CSA) with Validation, Changes, Search and Store Browser and Configuration & Security Analysis Administration. The Administration provides information about the Collector Framework for CSA.
The capabilities are available after the setup (Single System Integration, SSI) has been done. CSA detects and records common technical changes in a managed system. A change tracking is performed during upload of the extracted configuration information.
On managed system side the configuration data is collected and transferred via Simple Diagnostics Agents (SDA) to the SAP Focused Run system. There the data is compared with the previous snapshot to identify changes. The data is stored in HANA database tables (starting with CCDB_DATA_) comprising the Configuration and Change Database (CCDB). For the general architecture and data flow of the application see also the below picture.
Supported Products
- SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP
- SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java
- SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Suite
- SAP Integration Suite (Cloud Integration)
- Cloud Connector
- SAP Web Dispatcher
- SAP Host Agent
- SAP BusinessObjects
- Databases: SAP HANA, SAP ASE, SAP MaxDB, Oracle, IBM DB6
For details, please check the Available CCDB Config Stores.
For Release Notes and Best Practices, please follow the below links:
Figure: CSA data collection
Configuration and Security Analysis (CSA) is launched via the SAP Focused Run launchpad. The CSA application provides configuration items and supports different views on them:
- Validation checks the configuration items against a defined policy, e.g. whether the setting for the password length fits to the security requirements
- Changes displays the changes over time
- Search allows to find items across huge landscapes
- Store Browser displays available configuration data
The sections below provide an overview on features and concepts of the CSA Application. You find further details and references on our CSA Best Practice page in this portal.