Log Message Reference and Error Troubleshooting

Target Audience

  • IT system administrator (SAP CC systems)
  • Application administrator (SAP CC)
  • Operations team (during the production operations phase)
  • Technology consultant (during the implementation phase)
  • Support specialist

Getting Started

This SAP product documentation is a complete reference of the log message IDs available in SAP Convergent Charging 5.0. It provides you with the necessary resolution plans (troubleshooting investigations, immediate correction actions, or preventive actions) for each log message ID.

This user assistance is intended for troubleshooting problems and planning the necessary follow-up activities to administer the SAP CC systems.

Recommendation

Use your favorite search engine to find the information that relates to a log entry of SAP CC quickly. Simply type the log message ID in your web browser.

Important Notes

  • The format and the detailed information of a log message may change but the meaning remains the same.
  • Some log messages may be deprecated at any time.
  • Each log message that is generated in SAP CC has an unique identifier - message ID - assigned to it. It cannot be reused for another purpose.

Troubleshooting and Resolution Plans

When monitoring the logs of an SAP CC system or system landscape, you get a log message associated to a unique identifier. You use this ID to plan further actions depending on the severity level of the log:

Log Severity and Definition Action Plan

Fatal error level: The SAP CC system or a subcomponent cannot recover from error, and the severe situation causes its fatal termination. The SAP CC system is not usable anymore and cannot be started without corrective actions by experts (administrators, support specialists).

Immediate correction actions: After a fatal error, the administrators do an immediate follow-up activity to analyze the logs and traces to determine further investigations before being able to identify the correction actions to be performed.

Error level: The SAP CC system or a subcomponent can recover from error, but cannot complete the desired task due to the error. The SAP CC system is still usable, but corrective actions need to be performed by administrators.

Immediate correction actions: After an error, the administrators do an immediate follow-up activity to determine the resolution and the corrective actions needed to be performed to avoid another erroneous termination in the future.

Warning level: The SAP CC system or a subcomponent can recover from anomaly, and fulfill the desired task, but needs later follow-up activity by a system administrator or an SAP CC application administrator to avoid erroneous terminations in the future.

Preventive actions:The administrators plan a follow-up activity to take into account the anomaly and to determine the appropriate timeframe to perform preventive actions.

You can start a root cause analysis.

Prefixes and Quick Access

The log messages relate to the following areas. Choose your area to view its log message IDs.

Prefix Definition
com.sap.SCC.chargingplan

Log messages from the SAP CC charging components

com.sap.SCC.core_client

Log messages from the SAP CC Core client modules, including public Java APIs and XML APIs

com.sap.SCC.core_server

Log messages from the instances of the SAP CC Core Server system

com.sap.SCC.infra

Log messages from the SAP CC Core Server technical infrastructure

Tasks

This section provides a starting point for troubleshooting investigations and problem solving when the symptoms are signaled by a log entry of SAP Convergent Charging. SAP CC is part of a multitechnology system landscape with distributed systems. The root cause may be difficult to identify.

Consulting the Information That Relates to a Log Message

When working with a specific error log message, you can use this documentation reference to empower your investigations. You quickly navigate to the relevant troubleshooting page by selecting the appropriate prefix of your log message. The page contains some useful details.

In SAP Convergent Charging, each log message has a unique identifier in order to facilitate the troubleshooting work. Most of the log messages recorded by your system include detailed runtime information such as identifiers and dates/times.

Core Server System Core Tool (User Interface) Other Custom Client Application (or System)
  1. com.sap.SCC.core_server
  2. com.sap.SCC.infra
  3. com.sap.SCC.chargingplan
  1. com.sap.SCC.core_client
  2. com.sap.SCC.chargingplan
  1. com.sap.SCC.core_client

Troubleshooting Problems with Logs

This technical operation is triggered by:

  • An alert raised by system monitoring
  • A log message discovered during log inspection

To provide a complete solution, the objective is to identify:

  • The causes in a complex environment
  • Immediate corrective actions to restore service operations as quickly as possible with minimal disruption to end customers (digital service consumers) by isolating the area of concern

To troubleshoot a problem signaled by a log entry:

  • Review the log entry.
  • Find the corresponding troubleshooting information:
    • In your favorite search engine, search for the unique log message ID
    • Access to this document and use the appropriate prefix of the log message
  • Perform the recommended troubleshooting investigations.
  • Plan later actions.

Related Tasks

Getting and Viewing Logs of the SAP CC Systems

You can get the log messages generated by the systems of SAP Convergent Charging by using the following procedures:

By default, the file extensions are *.log and *.trc. The logs and traces are not mixed. These settings may be customized in your running SAP CC system.

Viewing the Logs (and Traces) in SAP Solution Manager

In the Root Cause Analysis Work Center of SAP Solution Manager, use the System Analysis report to display the logs and traces of SAP Convergent Charging.

  • Start a system analysis: choose the System Analysis report in the navigation area.
  • Select the system cluster that corresponds to your SAP CC platform.
  • Click Log Viewer. A window displays all the host machines available in this cluster, the status of the Diagnostic agents, and the declared log stores.
  • Select the host and the log (or trace) files to analyze.

Viewing the Logs (and Traces) in SAP Management Console (SAP MC, SAP MMC)

To view the logs (and traces) in your SAP Management Console:

  • Select the SAP CC system by its SID (SAP System Identifier) that is unique in the SAP system landscape
  • Select the host you want to work with; Right-click and choose the All Tasks menu.
  • Then select the View Developer Traces... submenu.
  • Select the log (or trace) files to analyze.

About Monitoring

For more information about the real-time monitoring of SAP Convergent Charging and its concepts, see the SAP CC 5.0 Operations Guide.

Recommendation

Based on log automated analysis, the log monitoring and alerting functions provided in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP13 identify potential problems in your SAP system landscape.

This Documentation

This product documentation provides you with user assistance about the SAP Convergent Charging software product when operating the SAP CC systems in your SAP system landscape.

Consult the documentation set of SAP CC for more information.

Related Documentation

For more information about working with SAP Convergent Charging, see these SAP product documents:

User Assistance About
SAP CC 5.0 Operations Guide
SAP CC 5.0 Configuration Guide Configuration and Implementation Information
SAP CC 5.0 Installation Guide Installation or Upgrade Information
SAP CC 5.0 Application Help Logging and tracing functions

More Documentation

For more information, see the product documentation set of SAP Convergent Charging 5.0 in SAP Help Portal:

Primary Help Secondary Help
SAP CC 5.0 Admin+
SAP CC 5.0 BART+
SAP CC 5.0 BART Setup Tool
SAP CC 5.0 BART Tool
SAP CC 5.0 CAT Tool
SAP CC 5.0 Cockpit
SAP CC 5.0 Config Tool
SAP CC 5.0 Core Tool
SAP CC 5.0 HTTP Client
SAP CC 5.0 Message Client
SAP CC 5.0 Import/Export Connector (IEC)
SAP CC 5.0 SL Common GUI for Convergent Charging
SAP CC 5.0 Setup Tool
SAP CC 5.0 Application Help
SAP CC 5.0 Database References
SAP CC 5.0 System Parameter Reference
SAP CC 5.0 Log Message Reference and Error Troubleshooting
SAP CC 5.0 Metric Reference and Performance Troubleshooting
Guides Extensibilty
SAP CC 5.0 Master Guide
Integration Guides to SAP BRIM (aka SAP Hybris Billing)
SAP CC 5.0 Tuning Guide and Sizing Guidelines for SAP Convergent Charging
SAP CC 5.0 Security Guide
SAP CC 5.0 Installation Guide
SAP CC 5.0 Configuration Guide
SAP CC 5.0 Operations Guide
SAP CC 5.0 Upgrade Guide
SAP CC 5.0 Transition Guide (Offline Charging in SAP Convergent Invoicing)
SAP CC 5.0 Web Services Documentation
SAP CC 5.0 Error Code Reference
SAP CC 5.0 Java/XML API References
SAP CC 5.0 Notification Reference