2261333 - ABAP Instance metrics display "RFC Ping Failed" error in Technical Monitoring

In the System Monitoring UI of Solution Manager 7.1, you see the error text "RFC Ping Failed"

In the agent logs for the SMD agent assigned to the metric 'Instance Local RFC Availability', the following error encountered:

[SAPPingRfcCollector.executePing] call ABAP function RFC_PING
[EXCEPTION]
 java.rmi.RemoteException: Illegal argument Managed ABAP client (is empty)
at com.sap.smd.agent.plugin.connectors.jco.JCOConnectorService.checkEmptyParameter(JCOConnectorService.java:95)
at com.sap.smd.agent.plugin.connectors.jco.JCOConnectorService.configureAbapConfiguration(JCOConnectorService.java:132)
at com.sap.smd.agent.plugin.connectors.jco.JCOConnectorService.ping(JCOConnectorService.java:473)
at com.sap.smd.mai.model.collector.SAPPingRfcCollector.executePing(SAPPingRfcCollector.java:113)
at com.sap.smd.mai.model.collector.SAPPingRfcCollector.collect(SAPPingRfcCollector.java:79)
at com.sap.smd.mai.job.MetricJobRunner.run(MetricJobRunner.java:32)
at com.sap.smd.server.exec.TaskRunner.run(TaskRunner.java:47)
at com.sap.smd.server.util.concurrent.PooledExecutor$Worker.run(PooledExecutor.java:785)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:763)

• SAP Solution Manager 7.1
• SAP Solution Manager 7.1, version for SAP HANA

SOLMAN, Reporting, Configuration, JcoRFC, illegal argument, empty, ABAP Instance not available, /abap/admin/pwd,  /abap/admin/user,  /abap/client,  /abap/com/pwd,  /abap/com/user, SMD Agent, ABAP, Missing Connection Parameters , KBA , SV-SMG-MON-ALR , Monitoring/Alerting/Reporting Infrastructure , SV-SMG-DIA-SRV-AGT , Agent Framework , Problem