Global Workload Monitor (SAP Library - Global Workload Monitor)

Global Workload Monitor

Purpose

The global workload monitor (transaction ST03G) allows the analysis of statistical data for both SAP R/3 and non-SAP R/3 Systems. With this data, you can analyze the workload of the monitored components in great detail. The monitor is therefore displayed as a one-screen transaction, so that operation is very intuitive and can find the desired data with only a few mouse clicks.

The basis of the analyses are the Distributed Statistics Records (DSR). The name reflects an important property of these records: components that write statistics records send data from the statistics records along with their communication with other components (this is called the passport) so that, for example, the user that triggered an action or the data flow of a business process can be followed even beyond system boundaries.

The DSRs are first stored locally on the respective components and are transferred hourly by CCMS agents to a monitoring system where the aggregated statistical data is saved in a performance database and is regularly reorganized.

Integration

The global workload monitor is largely identical in operation to the SAP R/3 workload monitor (transaction ST03N), with which you can perform an analysis of the statistical data for the SAP R/3 kernel. The global workload monitor actually uses functions of the SAP R/3 workload monitor when you analyze the workload of SAP R/3 Systems.

Features

You can perform the following analyses, among others, in the global workload monitor:

How is the workload distributed over the individual service types? (For more information about service types, see Displaying the Workload Overview).

What is the workload for individual actions?

How is the workload distributed over the hours of the day?

Which action steps have the longest response and wait times?

What load data is caused by calling external components?

What is the workload of individual users and which actions has a user executed?

What load is caused in a component due to actions of external components?

What is the response time distribution for individual service types (necessary, for example, for Service Level Agreements)?

What is the availability of statistical data for individual components?

For all of these analyses:

You can choose the time period for which you want to display the data between day, week and month (or determine the length of time yourself using the Last Minutes’ Load function).

You can display data for any component, or, optionally, totalled for all components of a type.

Constraints

The Internet Transaction Server is currently the only non-SAP R/3 component type for which statistics records are written that can be analyzed in the global workload monitor. We plan to include other component types in the future.

See Also:

Operating the Global Workload Monitor

Configuration/Self-Monitoring of the Global Workload Monitor

Workload Collector Monitor