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Use

The Computing Center Management System (CCMS) has an alert monitor that offers you support for monitoring and operating your SAP system. The CCMS monitor sets for the alert monitor have, along with the BW monitor, a selection of BW-relevant, standard SAP contexts as well as the process chain context.

Activities

  1. You get to the alert monitor from the BW menu by using Tools ® CCMS ® Control Data/Monitoring ® Alert Monitor or by using the transaction RZ20.

    2. In the overview tree of the CCMS monitor sets, you find the BW Monitor under the node SAP BW Monitor.

  2. Select the BW Monitor and choose Monitor ® Start Monitor.

The contexts, for which the monitor objects are displayed, are hanging under the node for your BW system. Thus, a context combines a group of logically related monitor objects.

Monitor objects are specific components from your SAP system or its environment that you need to monitor.

The monitor attributes are displayed for a monitor object. These describe data types that can be reported for a specific monitor object. Alerts can be deleted based on values that are reported for an attribute.

You can find additional information about using the CCMS alert monitor in the documentation for the SAP Web Application Server under Computing Center Management System (BC-CCM) ® Monitoring in CCMS ® Alert Monitor.

Monitoring Process Chains in CCMS

Context

The Process Chains context contains all of the process chains that have run since the BW system was last started.

By setting the transfer parameter for method execution DAYS_TO_KEEP_LOGS in the method definition RSPC_CCMS_STARTUP, you can specify the process chain runs that you want to display from those that ended before the BW system was last started. By default, this parameter is set at seven days. This means that the process chain runs from the last seven days are displayed. You get the method definition through transaction RZ21 -> Methods -> Definitions.

By double-clicking on the Process Chains context, you can jump to the process chain maintenance.

Monitor Objects

In the Process Chains context, process chains that have run since the last start of the BW system are displayed as monitor objects, as well as those that were defined in transaction RZ21 (see context section above).

The nodes show the technical name of the process chain.

By double-clicking on a process chain, you jump to the maintenance for that chain.

Attributes are displayed for each process chain. These are:

The text attribute specifies the description of the process chain.

All runs of the chain (represented by the log ID as well as month, day, and time) for the last n days are displayed as monitor objects.

You define the parameter n as the transfer parameter for method execution DAYS_TO_KEEP_LOGS in the method definition RSPC_CCMS_AGENT. If no changes have been made to the run for n days, it is removed from the display. However, you can still access the log directly from the process chain maintenance.

This agent runs a maximum of every ten minutes and monitors all of the runs displayed. The batch job for this is SAP_CCMS_MONI_BATCH_DP, and is scheduled to run once an hour by default when you save the method. You can change the schedule in transaction SM37.

When you select a run and choose Display Details, all messages for this run are displayed, as well as a message for every process that has finished. Only messages for the last 30 minutes are shown by default, but you can change this setting.

By double-clicking on a process chain run, you get to the log view of the process chain maintenance for this run.

 

 

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