Monitoring the Web Service Runtime
Purpose
In the AS ABAP, different tools for monitoring the correct functioning of the Web service runtime are at your disposal. You can deal with any errors that may occur using the tools provided.
Integration
Monitoring the Web service runtime is part of the
central monitoring operation (for more information, refer to
Process Integration
Monitoring).
Features
The following tools are provided for monitoring the Web service runtime:
The Web Service Runtime monitor triggers an alert if problems occur during the configuration of the Web service runtime, if there are runtime errors of different error categories, and whenever there are performance bottlenecks after certain threshold values have been exceeded.
● Logs and Tracing (SOA Manager)
The logging function provides information on processing steps in the SOAP runtime. With the tracing function, you can analyze errors or performance problems in detail. You will find more information in the section Logs and Traces.
You will find information on logs and traces in the SAP NetWeaver Administrator under the section Viewing Web Services Logs and Traces.
With Web Services Reliable Messaging, messages are grouped together into sequences. Using the analysis tools of the sequence monitor, you can find and remove any errors that occur during transmission.
To find errors that have occurred and also the cause of these errors, you can monitor the messages contained in sequences.
● Monitoring Event-Controlled Processing
When you are searching for errors, check whether the Event Handler and the Task Watcher are being started at regular intervals. This is another prerequisite for reliable message transmission and transaction processing in the SOAP runtime.
You can debug a Web service with errors on the
provider side using units of the
bgRFC (Background
Remote Function Call).
Example
Troubleshooting with Monitoring Tools
This section contains an example of error analysis.