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Feature

Type of Change

Description

Central Monitoring

New

The central tool for monitoring the integration processes in your landscape is the PI Monitoring dashboard in Technical Monitoring Work Center in SAP Solution Manager. When you find there that certain processes or messages should be reviewed more thoroughly, you can navigate to the corresponding local monitor in SAP NetWeaver Administrator, Runtime Workbench, or the Integration Engine message monitor.

For more information, see http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/TechOps/PiMon_HomeInformation published on SAP site.

Feature

Type of Change

Description

Message Prioritization

New

On the Adapter Engine you can define rules according to which messages with different priorities (low, normal, or high) are processed. Use the attributes from the message header to define such rules.

For more information, see Prioritizing the Processing of Messages .

SLD registration

New

PI components are registered in the System Landscape Directory (SLD) during basic configuration. Using the SLD registration function, you can check and correct this registration, and also register additional components.

For more information, see Registering Components in SLD .

Communication Channel Monitor

Enhanced

You can use the communication channel monitor to call information about the status of your communication channels and the corresponding adapters.

You can also administrate your communication channels. There is a function for the scheduled stopping and starting of communication channels. You can schedule locally by defining availability times, or externally by using an HTTP request.

You can use the communication channel monitor to monitor CIDX and RNIF adapters as well. Messages sent to stopped channels are no longer subject to retries. Instead, they are scheduled again when the channel is restarted.

For more information, see Communication Channel Monitor .

Technical Status of the Adapter Engine

Enhanced

You can display technical data on the Adapter Engine across multiple server nodes.

For more information, see Displaying Technical Data for the Adapter Engine .

Message Monitor

Enhanced

Bulk messages are now displayed in the message list for Integration Engines. The corresponding individual messages are displayed in the message list for Adapter Engines.

You can select and display archived messages in the Integration Engine.

The detail display for messages on the Adapter Engine allows you to display various versions of a message.

You can use the message editor to edit messages on the Adapter Engine, too. During editing, the system locks the messages so that they cannot be changed by other users.

The new message overview gives you an overview of message processing within a certain time period, sorted by sender or receiver attributes.

You can now search for edited messages using new filter criteria and also display the messages found.

The message list shows whether a message is from a Web service.

For more information, see Message Monitoring .

Background Processing

Enhanced

Background processing monitor offers an additional standard job for archiving edited messages. You can also configure parameters for restart jobs.

For more information, see Background Processing .

Performance Monitoring

Enhanced

The advanced search now includes the sender and receiver criteria Agency and Scheme. However, you can still use the selection filters that you have created and saved, since the two new criteria are handled as not specified when such filters are loaded. The input help for all available sender and receiver criteria now has an additional entry <empty>. This allows you to specify attributes explicitly as “empty” .

For more information, see Performance Monitoring .

Adapter Monitor

Enhanced

The Adapter Monitor has been renamed as the JPR Monitor as it is now only used for monitoring the Java Proxy Runtime (JPR). The adapters can now all be monitored with the communication channel monitor.

For more information, see Monitoring Java Proxy Runtime .

Alert Configuration

Enhanced

When defining alert rules, you can now decide whether or not the alerts to be generated are to be linked to a message.

For more information, see Alert Configuration .

Index Administration

Enhanced

In addition to standard indexing, index administration now has a fast indexing method that speeds up the indexing procedure considerably.

For more information, see Index Administration .

Cache Monitoring

Enhanced

You can now monitor additional cache objects from the ABAP cache of the Integration Server. You can also use cache monitoring to monitor the cache of business systems that communicate using Web services.

For more information, see Cache Monitoring .

Feature

Type of Change

Description

Message Monitor

Enhanced

The message monitoring message list in the Integration Engine shows you whether a message is a message from a Web Service.

The user-defined message search capability enhances the ability to find information about persisted XML messages. In addition to the existing search criteria users now can search for asynchronous messages using the attributes of the XML main payload, or adapter-specific message attributes.

Users can display message packages.

Users can find archived messages, display their content, and compare the different message versions. They can find archived messages either by searching the archive, or by performing an advanced search for messages that match specific search criteria.

For more information, see Monitoring XML Messages .

Feature

Type of Change

Description

Runtime Workbench

New

Monitoring of the Advanced Adapter Engine Extended in Runtime Workbench is not supported.

Monitoring Messages

New

You can use the message monitoring to create an overview of message processing, to track the status of messages, and to find errors that have occurred and establish what caused them.

The user-defined message search capability enhances the ability to find information about persisted XML messages. In addition to the existing search criteria users now can search for asynchronous messages using the attributes of the XML main payload, or adapter-specific message attributes.

For more information, see Monitoring Messages .

Displaying Technical Data for the Adapter Engine

New

You can obtain technical information about Advanced Adapter Engine. This includes information about the defined sender and receiver components, database locks of messages, the number of messages per category and status, and other technical details.

For more information, see Displaying Technical Data for the Adapter Engine .

Monitoring Communication Channels

New

With the communication channel monitor you can obtain information about communication channels that are set up for the Advanced Adapter Engine. You can also perform some administrative activities, like activating or deactivating external control, manually starting or stopping channels, and checking the status of the connection of a channel using the channel ping functionality.

For more information, see Monitoring Communication Channels .

Monitoring IDoc Adapter

New

You can use the IDoc monitor when you need information about the messages processed with the IDoc adapter on the AAE.

For more information, see Monitoring IDoc Adapter .

Monitoring the Cache

New

You can use the cache monitor to display objects that are currently in the runtime cache of the AAE and the mapping runtime.

For more information, see Monitoring the Cache .

Performing Background Processing

New

You can schedule the background processing of routine tasks on the Advanced Adapter Engine. You can configure jobs for archiving, deleting, restarting, and recovering messages. You can also configure parameters for restart jobs.

For more information, see Performing Background Processing .

Monitoring Java Proxy Runtime

New

The Java Proxy Runtime monitor provides information about the current status of each runtime component.

For more information, see Monitoring Java Proxy Runtime .

Prioritizing the Processing of Messages

New

You can define rules according to which the system processes messages with different priority: low, normal, or high.

For more information, see Prioritizing the Processing of Messages .

Monitoring Roles

New

The access to the monitoring tools in SAP NetWeaver Administrator can be managed using a set of predefined user roles and actions.

For more information, see Monitoring Roles .

Feature

Type of Change

Description

CCMS Monitor

Enhanced

A new CCMS connection allows you to collect unprocessed alerts from the XI alert categories periodically and forward them to CCMS.

Information about message indexing for the index-based message search is now available in the CCMS monitor.

Cross-namespace information about stopped messages is now provided in the CCMS monitor.

You can display how many messages are located in a processing backlog on the Adapter Engine for each defined service. You can define corresponding threshold values for generating alerts.

You can monitor the status of the PI runtime cache in the Integration Directory using CCMS.

For more information, see Monitoring Using CCMS .