The agent provides the following levels of application monitoring:

• Primary or Basic monitoring

  This mode has Process check and Health check monitoring options. With the default Process check option, the agent verifies that the SAP instance processes are present in the process table. Process check cannot detect whether processes are in hung or stopped states.

• Secondary or Detail monitoring

  In this mode, the agent runs a utility to verify the status of the SAP instance. The agent detects application failure if the monitoring routine reports an improper function of the SAP instance processes. When this application failure occurs, the SAP instance service group fails over to another node in the cluster.

  Thus, the agent ensures high availability for SAP instances.