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 Data Archiving Monitor

Use

You can use the data archiving monitor to monitor and analyze the write and delete phases of the data archiving process.

The information sent to the monitor, if any, depends on where and how the job was started:

  • If the write or delete job was started in production mode and in the background, monitoring information is sent to the alert monitor
  • If the write or delete job was started in production mode and in dialog, information is only sent to the alert monitor if the job is running on the server where the monitoring context Data Archiving was created.

If the write or delete was started in test mode, no information is sent.

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 (transaction SAR_SHOW_MONITOR). You can also monitor data archiving in the database monitor under SAP CCMS Monitor Templates → Database → DataArchiving.

Features

The data archiving monitor provides the following functions:

  • Complete overview of archiving sessions that were actually executed
  • Details about the write and delete phases of archiving sessions (such as start time, runtime, size of the archive files, and number of archived data objects)
  • Progress indicator of archive files processed
  • Recognition of need for action (for example, delete jobs that need to be executed or unfinished delete jobs) or errors (for example, I/O errors)
  • Analysis of open alerts by displaying information about the executed jobs as well as their logs

Activities

Every write 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 recently successfully completed write and delete phases. The monitoring attribute Statistics, in contrast to the monitoring attribute Checkpoints, is not deleted.

The following figure 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 numbered messages and alerts provide you with the following information; the texts shown are not the exact messages; the actual messages provide you with more details:

  1. Archiving session started
  2. Archive file written
  3. Delete from database started
  4. Delete from database finished
  5. Write job complete
  6. Delete jobs finished