System and Data Auditing: Product Usage Measurement Settings (Summary)

System and Data Auditing: Product Usage Measurement Settings

Definition

System configuration settings of the business metric recording feature about the product usage information (volume of master data, transactional data)

Description
Setting up or viewing system parameters of this group
Viewing and inspecting indicators of this group

Description

This group includes all the system parameters concerning the following technical feature:

Technical Feature Key Parameter

Business metric recording about product usage information (master data volume, transactional data volume)

See METRIC_RECORDING_SCHEDULER_ENABLED

Technical Feature	Key Parameter
Business metric recording about product usage information (master data volume, transactional data volume)	See METRIC_RECORDING_SCHEDULER_ENABLED

Before to configure the SAP CC system, consult the following user assistance:

Technical operations: SAP CC Operations Guide
Procedures: SAP CC Core Tool (see Working with metrics)

Setting Up or Viewing System Parameters

You can set up or view the following system parameters that are available for different instance types in the running SAP CC Core Server system.

Parameter Definition

METRIC_RECORD_TIME_WINDOW The number of retention days during which the metrics are recorded in the database

METRIC_RECORDING_DAY_TIME The time of the daily business metric recording

METRIC_RECORDING_SCHEDULER_ENABLED The enablement or disablement of the business metric recording (as SAP product usage information)

Parameter	Definition
METRIC_RECORD_TIME_WINDOW	The number of retention days during which the metrics are recorded in the database
METRIC_RECORDING_DAY_TIME	The time of the daily business metric recording
METRIC_RECORDING_SCHEDULER_ENABLED	The enablement or disablement of the business metric recording (as SAP product usage information)

Notes

Use the set command of the SAP CC Admin+ user interface to change the parameter values. The immediate change may be not possible and a restart is necessary. Consult the details for each parameter.
Use the get command to retrieve the parameter values manually.
Use the SAP CC Config Tool user interface to set up a complete or partial list of system parameters (restart needed).

Viewing and Inspecting Indicators

You can retrieve the runtime values of the following indicators in your running SAP CC Core Server system:

Indicator Definition

METRIC_RECORDING_SCHEDULER_LAST_TRIGGER The last date when the metric recording process was triggered by the scheduler

Indicator	Definition
METRIC_RECORDING_SCHEDULER_LAST_TRIGGER	The last date when the metric recording process was triggered by the scheduler

Note

Use the get command of the SAP CC Admin+ user interface to retrieve the indicator values manually.

Recommendation

SAP recommends that you implement and use SAP Solution Manager in combination with the CA Introscope technology and infrastructure to improve your experience.

SAP delivers a packaged and customized version, CA Introscope for SAP, for an efficient technical monitoring of the SAP CC systems in the system landscape.

Refer to the SAP CC Operations Guide for more information about the following elements:

getting started with CA Introscope for SAP CC
installation and setup of supportability tools
technical and performance monitoring

See also: Consult the SAP CC Metric Reference and Performance Troubleshooting documentation for more information about the performance and health data that you can monitor or use for your troubleshooting operations and root cause analysis.