Business Processes Operations

This part of SAP Library gives you an overview of the changes and new features in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP05 since SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP01.

This information is provided as release notes, which are structured by Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) processes. The following table gives you an overview of new, enhanced and deleted functions in the Business Processes Operations process.

Business process and interface monitoring

Function	Type of change	Description	More Information
Specify and display technical requirements	New	Improved workflow support makes it easier to plan monitoring and set up monitoring objects: as the person responsible for the process, you can create the technical requirements for monitoring your business processes before the monitoring objects are technically set up.	Specify and Display Technical Requirements
Business process analysis	Enhanced	A three-level authorization concept allows you to ensure that sensitive data can only processed or displayed by users with the appropriate authorization.	Business Process Analytics
Alert Inbox	New	To control the behavior of alerts in the Alert Inbox, you can specify the following: How long alerts are retained before they are automatically removed Whether alerts are to be transferred to SAP NetWeaver/BW systems The language in which alerts and error messages are to be displayed.	Adjusting the Alert Inbox Parameters of Alerts
Set up alert notifications	New	To be informed immediately about alerts in the Alert Inbox, you can configure automatic notifications, which the system sends by e-mail or SMS, for example.	Setting Up Alert Notifications
Assign analysis tools to monitoring objects	New	So that an employee can immediately analyze the cause of an error when processing alerts in the Alert Inbox, you can assign analysis tools to monitoring objects. For example, this can be the appropriate transaction or a help text.	Assigning Analysis Tools
Assigning Analysis Tools to Monitoring Objects	New	To ensure effective monitoring and efficient solving of problems, you can assign a responsible person, a monitoring team, and problem solving procedures (monitoring activities) to each monitoring object.	Assigning Monitoring Activities
Assigning Monitoring Teams to Monitoring Objects	New	You can define monitoring teams and assign them to particular monitoring objects.	Assigning a Monitoring Team

Job Scheduling Management

Function	Type of change	Description	More Information
Solution Manager Scheduling Enabler (SMSE) Interface	Enhanced	You can schedule jobs with any external scheduler.	Scheduling Jobs Directly
Configure job monitoring	Changed	To simplify and unify the configuration, the configuration of job monitoring has been redeveloped and merged with the configuration of business process monitoring.	Configuring Job Monitoring

Data Consistency Management

Function	Type of change	Description	More Information
GSS: Data consistency management	New	You can use this Guided Self-Service (GSS) to select the optimal tools to keep the data in your systems consistent. Use data consistency management for a number of events, such as after a system crash of the database, or to ensure the consistency of the data.	GSS: Data Consistency Management