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Procedure documentation Displaying Performance Data Graphically in the Alert Monitor Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You can display the performance data that you have called on the detailed data for monitoring attributes screen graphically. You can use this data, for example, to compare the individual response times for multiple application servers at a glance and to analyze possible tendencies within your SAP system.

Every values in the graphical display is expressed as a value between 0 and 1, so that you can compare different values with each other. For example, you can easily compare the CPU performance with the number of users logged on to an application server, although these are expressed in different units.

SAP Basis 4.6A provided new functions for display the curve. With the Fit function, you can test the relationship between two different curves. If you choose this function, the highest value in the curve is assigned the value 1 in the graphical display, and the lowest value is assigned the value 0. Using this, you can see the relationship between two curves clearly.

There are two further display options: you can display an extract from the performance data curve, and you can change the scaling of the display, so that you can see differences between the recorded values more easily.

The new graphical display can also show up "holes" in your measurement data. If, for example, the system was not active for a time, there is a hole in the display, to show that no values were recorded during this time.

You can also choose how you want to graphically display the performance data. You can choose between a variety of options (bar chart, pie chart or table).

Procedure

  1. Choose Administration ® CCMS ® Control/Monitoring ® Alert Monitor in the SAP Easy Access menu, or call transaction RZ20.
  2. Expand the monitor set that contains the monitors that you require and choose Start Monitor.
  3. Select the desired performance MTEs (if you are not familiar with the icons used in the alert monitor, choose Legend), and choose Display Details.
  4. Check the indicators for data lines that you want to include in the graphical representation. You can combine data from several lines, that belong to different MTEs.
  5. Choose Display Performance Values Graphically. The alert monitor displays the selected data.
  6. If you want to change the legend or the scale of the graphic, choose Settings ® Legend.
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