Using the Central Calendar

Use

You can use the Central Calendar in the DBA Cockpit to view actions on all the databases of your SAP Systems.

Prerequisites

You have defined the systems to be displayed in the Central Calendar by double-clicking the required system in the screen DBA Cockpit: System Configuration Maintenance and selecting Collect Central Planning Calendar Data.
For more information, seeMonitoring of Remote Databases.
In the DBA Planning Calendar of the DBA Cockpit where you call the Central Calendar, you have planned the action Central Calendar Log Collector to run regularly. This collects information from the defined remote systems for display in the Central Calendar.
For more information, see Setting Up the DBA Planning Calendar.

Procedure

Start the Central Calendar from the DBA Cockpit by choosing Jobs → Central Calendar.
The Central Calendar is displayed. If you have already run or planned actions, you see entries by day, one for each system.

Here is an example of entries for Thursday February, 08 affecting two systems, FUD and FIB:

3	FUD	2
4	FIB	1

Tip

On system FUD for Thursday 8^th January, there were three actions planned, two of which had the highest status severity. For example, the highest status severity for FUD might be "Finished with warning", in which case the entry for FUD is displayed with a yellow background. This means that two actions ended with a warning.

On system FIB for the same day, there were four actions planned, one of which ended with the highest severity. For example, the highest severity for FIB might be "Finished with error", in which case the entry for FIB is displayed with a red background. This means that one action ended with an error.

The following table shows the color-coded statuses in the Central Calendar, which you can also see by choosing Legend:

Color	Status
Light blue	Planned
Dark blue	Running
Green	Finished successfully
Yellow	Finished with warning
Red	Finished with error
Dark yellow	No longer available
Dark red	Scheduling failed

To see a summary of the actions for a day, double-click the day header.

The system displays a summary of the actions and status for each system on the day you selected, as in the following example:

Example:

System	Total	No longer available	Scheduled	Running	Finished	Warning	Error	Overdue
FUD	3	1		2
FIB	4		3				1

To see the individual actions for a system, double-click the entry for the system on the required day.
You see the relevant day in the DBA Planning Calendar. You can perform all usual functions in the DBA Planning Calendar.
To refresh the display for the system from which you called the Central Calendar, choose Refresh.

To refresh the display for all systems, choose Remote Refresh.

You can remotely refresh the display as follows:

Method	How the Refresh Runs
Run in Dialog	Runs in dialog mode, which can take a long time, so not recommended
Start immediately	Runs immediately in the background as a job
Schedule at	Runs in the background at the time that you specify

Note

We recommend that you schedule action Central Calendar Log Collector to run regularly, as described above in "Prerequisites".

If required, you can customize the calendar display as follows:
1. Specify a factory calendar in Calendar ID.
2. Holidays are displayed in the same background color as weekend days. This in no way restricts the planning of actions in the DBA Planning Calendar.
3. Switch to day, week, or month view by choosing Administration → View Day, Administration → View Week, or Administration → View Month.
4. Choose Save Settings and change Number of Weeks or Entries per Day in the display.