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To allow users to check specific messages or the monitoring team to optimize message flows or detect errors, you set up message flow scenarios.

  • To allow easy selection of the business-critical end-to-end message flows, edit the message flow names, add descriptions, and assign contact persons.

  • Define housekeeping options (the retention time of messages which reached the system of a business partner, for example).

  • Create message flow groups. This is what users actually monitor. You can group message flows, for example, by the following criteria:

    • business partner

    • person responsible (and corresponding authorizations)

    • sending/receiving systems involved

  • Define related message flows, for example an order dispatched to a business partner and its confirmation by the business partner system.

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Prerequisites

Business

The integration architect has

  • identified the message flows to be monitored

  • outlined mapping rules for related message flows in B2B scenarios

For more information about possible roles and activities involved in Message Flow Monitoring scenarios, see Message Flow Monitoring.

Technical

  • You have authorization for the Technical Monitoring work center.

  • You have installed PI 7.31 SP07 or higher.

  • For all managed ABAP systems to be monitored with Message Flow Monitoring, you have ensured the following:

    • ST-PI 2008_1_* SP08 or higher is installed.

    • In the SAP Solution Manager Configuration work center, the Managed System Configuration scenario has been performed.

  • You have set up Integration Visibility and run a discovery of your PI system landscape.

    For more information, see the documentation under   http://help.sap.com   SAP NetWeaver   SAP NetWeaver Platform   <SAP NetWeaver 7.3 EHP1 SP07 or higher>   Technical Operations for SAP NetWeaver   Administering Process Integration (PI)   Administering Process Integration (PI) Dual Stack   Integration Visibility  .

  • You have the required roles to work with IV process. For more information, see   http://help.sap.com   SAP NetWeaver   SAP NetWeaver Platform   <SAP NetWeaver 7.3 EHP1 SP07 or higher>   Technical Operations for SAP NetWeaver   Administering Process Integration (PI)   Administering Process Integration (PI) Dual Stack   Integration Visibility   Authorization Rules for Integration Visibility   Roles  .

  • If you want to monitor a B2B scenario, you and your business partner have set up the SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration, business-to-business add-on.

    For more information, see the SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration, business-to-business add-on documentation under   http://help.sap.com   SAP NetWeaver   <SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration, business-to-business add-on Release 1.0 or higher>   Configuration Information  .

Procedure

  1. To set up message flows and create message flow groups, do the following:

    1. To start the set-up, in the SAP Solution Manager Configuration work center choose   Technical Monitoring   Interface Monitoring   Message Flow  .

    2. Follow the guided procedure.

  2. To allow users to display data, do the following:

    • In the Message Flow Monitoring setup guided procedure, in the Standard Users step, create a user.

    • Recommended: To allow users to display business-related data selectively, create personal object worklists (POWL) and assign them to message flow groups and user roles.