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Procedure documentationAnalyzing Status, Configuration, and Administration Data

Procedure

To analyze status, configuration, and administration data, choose Start of the navigation path Jobs Next navigation step Check Environment End of the navigation path from the SAP Easy Access menu.

Certain requirements have to be met before the background processing can work. For example, profile parameters and authorizations must be set. You can obtain this information using the analysis transaction, with which you can also check it.

There are two test types available:

  1. Basic tests (initial screen)

    You can check whether the profile parameters are correctly set and whether the user ID SAPCPIC exists. You can perform this check both for a particular background server and for all servers. It is required for starting external programs.

  2. Additional tests (Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Additional Tests End of the navigation path)

In addition to the basic tests described above, you can also check the following here:

  • User authorization for background processing

  • Name of all job servers

  • Function and status of the TemSe subsystem, which is required for writing the job logs

  • Consistency of the database tables

The background processing stores job data in multiple database tables. These tables can be checked for consistency. This test is especially important if problems occur with the database and you need to determine whether all job data is still available.

Note Note

You can also perform the consistency check for database tables as a background job. This is useful if the test terminates when executed directly from the Check Environment function due to a timeout. (This problem only occurs if the tables are too large for background processing; that is, if the background processing system is too active. In this case, the check report may exceed the time interval on reports run in interactive mode, that is, in the foreground. The check report is then terminated with the message Time limit exceeded.)

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To run the consistency check in the background, schedule ABAP report RSBTCCNS as a job step in a background job. The report includes two predefined variants that you can use in the job step. These include:

  • Variant SAP&AUTOREPNO: Use this variant to have consistency problems only reported in the RSBTCCNS list output. No automatic repair of the problems is performed.

  • Variant SAP&AUTOREPYES: Use this variant to have consistency problems logged and also automatically repaired by the report.

The report logs its results in a spool request which you can display or print.

  • Current status of the background work processes of a particular or of all job servers

  • Number of entries in the dispatcher queue for background work processes

This wait queue should always be empty. If there are, however, entries in the queue, the background work processes of the relevant application server cannot currently process additional jobs.

The test results can optionally be displayed as a list or saved to the file 'BTCSPY' in the working directory of the application server that you are logged on to.