Data Archiving Monitor (SAP Library

Data Archiving Monitor

Use

You can use the data archiving monitor to monitor and analyze information about writing of archive files (write jobs) and deletion of data from the database (delete jobs) during an archiving session.

Every archiving and delete job executed in the background in production mode sends information to the alert monitor. Archiving and delete programs started in dialog mode for test purposes only send information to the alert monitor, if the program is running on the server where the monitoring context DataArchiving was created.

Integration

The data archiving monitor is integrated in the alert monitor (transaction RZ20 ) and can be called by choosing SAP CCMS Monitor Templates ® Data Archiving. You can monitor data archiving in the database monitor under SAP CCMS Monitor Templates ® Database ® DataArchiving.

Features

The data archiving monitor provides the following functions:

A complete overview of all executed archiving objects
Details about archiving and delete sessions (such as start time, runtime, size of the archive files, and number of archived data objects)
A progress indicator of archive files processed
Recognition of need for action (for example, open delete jobs) or errors (for example, I/O error when alerts triggered)
Analysis of open alerts by displaying information about the executed jobs as well as their logs

Activities

Every archiving and delete program based on the Archive Development Kit (ADK) generates a monitoring node (corresponding to the name of the archiving object) and the monitoring attributes Checkpoints and Statistics when first run.

The monitoring attribute Checkpoints collects important status messages and error messages (alerts). Once alerts are completed and there is no session that has errors or is incomplete for this archiving object (according to archive management), the monitoring attribute Checkpoints is automatically deleted along with all messages and alerts.

The monitoring attribute Statistics collects statistics about the last successfully completed archiving and delete sessions. The monitoring attribute Statistics, in contrast to the monitoring attribute Checkpoints, is not deleted.

The following graphic illustrates the timeline for a typical archiving session, including the messages and alerts for the monitoring attributes Checkpoints and Statistics displayed in the alert monitor. The messages are described in Messages and Alerts.