SAP Solution Manager 7.2 · Application Operations: MAI Backbone

An Application Operations tool refuses to produce any data even though it is 'activated'. A colleague says SOLMAN_SETUP for that tool must be incomplete. Where is the real prerequisite?

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You are validating that MAI can actually collect data for a managed system. Which collection components must all be in place, and why is leaving one out a silent monitoring gap rather than a hard error?

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EWA reports for a managed system are coming up empty and RTCCTOOL won't run. Which of the two solution-tool plugins — ST-A/PI or ST-PI — do you check, and what tells the two apart?

After the SolMan host is rebuilt, Java performance data from Wily Introscope disappears even though the Java Byte Code Adapter is still installed on the managed AS Java. What's the dependency that explains this?

A 7.1-era runbook tells you to open 'Technical Monitoring'. In Solution Manager 7.2 that label is gone — what is it now called, and where do you actually go?

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