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Use

In the Current Status user menu, you can find, among other things, a display of the system settings.

Procedure

Open the Database Assistant (transaction DB50) or the liveCache Assistant (transaction LC10). Choose Start of the navigation path Current Status Next navigation step System Settings End of the navigation path.

The system settings display is part of the DBA Cockpit and can therefore also be called as follows:

  1. Open DBA Cockpit (transaction DBACOCKPIT).

  2. The display options in DBA Cockpit vary depending on which SAP NetWeaver release you are using.

    • Choose Start of the navigation path Current Status Next navigation step System Information End of the navigation path.

    • SAP NetWeaver 7.1: Choose Start of the navigation path Configuration Next navigation step System Settings End of the navigation path.

Result

The system displays an overview of the most important system settings, divided into the following areas:

  • General Status Information

    The system displays information about the options and settings with which the system is currently running. Critical states are highlighted in color on the display (for example LOG WRITING off - logging is deactivated, VTRACE - database trace is activated). Among other things, you can see whether join optimization for the optimizer (OPTIMIZE JOIN PARALLEL), database monitoring (MONITORING on), or automatic log backup (AUTOSAVE LOG on) are activated, or whether bad indexes have been found (NO OF BAD INDEXES), and so on.

  • Restart Information

    You receive, among other things, information about savepoints.

  • Log Information

    You receive internal log information, such as when the last log backup was written (LAST FLUSH DATE, LAST FLUSH TIME).

To update the display, choose Start of the navigation path Edit Next navigation step Refresh End of the navigation path. The system displays the current system settings, which are stored in a series of system tables.