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The End-to-End Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure (MAI) contains a lot of analysis tools for error handling. They are primarily intended for internal se by SAP, and for SAP Support.

To call the MAI analysis tools, start transaction SE38, and in the Program field, enter AC_ALRT_ANALYSIS_TOOLS.

Caution Caution

Only use the functions below. All other tools are reserviert for use by SAP Support.

End of the caution.

Features

Metric Error Handling

The Metric Error Handling program checks the data collection for the managed objects and monitoring use cases of metrics. For more information, see Metric Error Handling.

Trace Tools

MAI contains comprehensive trace functions, which show the details of the MAI processes. The trace is a high-performance expert tool to trace procedures, analyze performance, and investigate errors. For further information, see MAI Trace Functions.

Find and Delete Invalid Data

MAI monitors your system landscape. Some managed objects (e.g. a system or host) are no longer used or no longer need to be monitored. In such cases, there may still be entries for such obsolete objects, in various MAI tables. This does not affect the function or performance of MAI, but the Event Calculation Engine outputs error messages. These messages are output, for example, in Self-Monitoring, in the technical component Event Calculation Engine.

You can delete these obsolete entries in the MAI tables, with the function Find and Delete Invalid Data. Proceed as follows:

  1. Start the transaction SE38, and in the field Program, enter AC_ALRT_ANALYSIS_TOOLS. In the Configuration Tools group box, choose Find and Delete Invalid Data.

  2. The MAI tables are listed. To delete the obsolete entries, choose Delete Invalid Entries from Database.

Activating and Deactivating Notification

The basic MAI functions include alerts, messages, notifications and auto-reactions to inform the persons responsible about an underlying problem, immediately, or trigger automatic technical reactions. You can specify how MAI is to react to an alert, globally or at the level of managed objects or metrics, in the SAP Solution Manager configuration (transaction SOLMAN_SETUP).

A lot of messages, notifications and auto-reactions may be created for fundamental problems, depending on the configuration settings, even if the underlying problem has already been handled. In such cases, further notifications about this problem are not helpful, or even harmful.

In such situations, use the function Activate/Deactivate Notifications. This deactivates notifications, messages and auto-reactions, globally, for the entire SAP Solution Manager, without changing the configuration settings. The function is a main switch, with which you can temporarily deactivate this function during error handling. Proceed as follows:

  1. Start the transaction SE38, and in the field Program, enter AC_ALRT_ANALYSIS_TOOLS. In the Gruppenrahmen Configuration Tools group box, choose Activate/Deactivate Notifications.

  2. You specify in the group boxes the current global activation status of the function, separately for Notifications, Messages and Auto-Reactions. To deactivate the function, choose Deactivate in the group box.

  3. Reactivate the functions after resolving the problem, with Activate.