BW Monitor in CCMS 

Use

The Computing Center Management System (CCMS) has an alert monitor that supports you in monitoring and operating your SAP systems. The CCMS monitor sets of the alert monitor, together with the BW monitor, contain a selection of BI-relevant standard SAP monitoring trees and monitoring trees for process chains and consistency checks in the analysis and repair environment.

Activities

1.       You get to the alert monitor from the menu by choosing Tools → CCMS → Control Data/Monitoring → CCMS Monitor Sets or by using transaction RZ20.

In the overview tree of the CCMS monitor sets under the SAP BW Monitor node, you find the BW Monitor.

2.       Select the BW Monitor and choose Monitor → Start Monitor.

The monitoring trees for which the monitor objects are displayed are under the node for your BI system. Thus, a monitoring tree combines a group of logically related monitor objects.

Monitor objects are specific components from your SAP system or its environment that you need to monitor.

The monitor attributes are displayed for a monitor object. These describe data types that can be reported for a specific monitor object. Alerts can be deleted based on values that are reported for an attribute.

For more information on the user of the Alert Monitor for CCMS, see Alert Monitor.

Monitoring Process Chains in CCMS

Monitoring Tree

The Process Chains monitoring tree contains all of the process chains that have run since the BI system was last started.

By setting the transfer parameter for method execution DAYS_TO_KEEP_LOGS in the method definition RSPC_CCMS_STARTUP, you can specify the process chain runs that you want to display from those that ended before the BI system was last started. By default, this parameter is set at seven days. This means that the process chain runs from the last seven days are displayed. You get the method definition through transaction RZ21 -> Methods -> Definitions.

By double-clicking on the Process Chains monitoring tree, you can jump to process chain maintenance.

Monitor Objects

In the Process Chains monitoring tree, process chains that have run since the last start of the BI system are displayed as monitor objects, as well as those that were defined in transaction RZ21.

The nodes show the technical name of the process chain.

By double-clicking on a process chain, you jump to the maintenance for that chain.

Attributes are displayed for each process chain.These are:

●     Text attribute

The text attribute specifies the description of the process chain.

●     Monitor attribute

All runs of the chain (represented by the log ID as well as month, day, and time) for the last n days are displayed as monitor objects.

You define the parameter n as the transfer parameter for method execution DAYS_TO_KEEP_LOGS in the method definition RSPC_CCMS_AGENT. If no changes have been made to the run for n days, it is removed from the display. However, you can still access the log directly from process chain maintenance. By setting the parameter to the value OFF you can generally exclude the process chains from being monitored by the CCMS.

This agent runs a maximum of every ten minutes and monitors all of the runs displayed. The batch job for this is SAP_CCMS_MONI_BATCH_DP and is scheduled to run once an hour by default when you save the method. You can change the scheduling in transaction SM37.

When you select a run and choose Display Details, all messages for this run are displayed, as well as a message for every process that has finished. The default setting is to display the messages from the last 30 minutes. You can change this setting.

By double-clicking on a process chain run, you get to the log view of the process chain maintenance for this run.

Consistency Check Messages in the Analysis and Repair Environment (RSRV)

In the RSRV Checks monitoring tree, you can display the messages for the consistency checks that you executed in the analysis and repair environment (transaction RSRV).