Technical 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 Technical Operations process.

Technical Monitoring and Alerting

Function	Type of Change	Description	More Information
Self-Monitoring	New	The end-to-end monitoring and alerting infrastructure (MAI) allows stable and reliable operation of complex heterogeneous system landscapes. To monitor the correct functioning of the landscape, in a new user interface there are a large number of metrics and alert types, their descriptions, and various applications available to you, which provide prior warning about potential problems.	Self-Monitoring of the Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure

Template Maintenance	Enhanced	Detailed information to support the help text available (in SOLMAN_SETUP transaction) for configuring System Monitoring has been created.	Template Maintenance
Technical Monitoring Alert Inbox	Enhanced	You can display alert details embedded or in a new window.	Technical Monitoring Alert Inbox
System Monitoring	Enhanced	You can monitor the status of IT infrastructure devices in the landscape. They also contribute to the status of a system.	System Monitoring
PI Monitoring	Enhanced	You can: Raise or view alerts for erroneous PI messages based on PI alert rules. The alerts can be raised for individual messages or for a PI runtime component, alert rule, status details, or integration flow. Search for PI messages (runtime and archived) across multiple PI components in the PI domain by specific information contained in the message header or payload.	PI Monitoring
BI Monitoring	Enhanced	You: Need not manually enter the information regarding the managed object while creating a support message Can monitor SLT layer, SAP HANA system layer, data services layer, and ABAP source system layer Can view runtime details of BW process chains or BO jobs in expert mode Can monitor the instances of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse process chains and BO jobs	BI Monitoring

Data Volume Management

Function	Type of Change	Description	More Information
Data Volume Management	Changed	Extension of the standard analysis reports in the following areas: Data distribution statistics Archiving statistics Savings potential Introduction of a new report category for the business object Footprint, with an extension of the standard analysis options to: Identify the simple archiving object (distribution analysis of the disk space) Calculation of the business object Footprint Improved support in mass configuration (transaction `solman_setup`) of connected systems using SAP standard templates. Introduction of new DVM-related applications: DVM Planning Dashboard Content Browser Generator for virtual fields Simplified object-specific configuration using SAP default values	Data Volume Management

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Data Volume Management

Changed

Extension of the standard analysis reports in the following areas:

Data distribution statistics
Archiving statistics
Savings potential

Introduction of a new report category for the business object Footprint, with an extension of the standard analysis options to:

Identify the simple archiving object (distribution analysis of the disk space)
Calculation of the business object Footprint

Improved support in mass configuration (transaction solman_setup) of connected systems using SAP standard templates.

Introduction of new DVM-related applications:

DVM Planning Dashboard
Content Browser
Generator for virtual fields

Simplified object-specific configuration using SAP default values

Data Volume Management

Technical Administration

Function	Type of Change	Description	More Information
Switch Framework Cockpit	Deactivation	The Switch Framework Cockpit is inactive and can no longer be used. You can manage the business functions directly in the managed systems, in the transaction Switch Framework Customizing (`SFW5`).	See SAP Note 1631352.

IT Calendar	New	You can: View location based factory and holiday calendars within IT Calendar Edit IT events This gets synchronized with Work Mode Management.	IT Calendar
Work Mode Management	New	You can: Schedule work modes on End User Experience Monitoring (EEMon) robots to enable execution of scripts only during certain period EEMon robots are grouped by region, country, and location. Upload HTML files and templates while sending downtime notifications This can include images, rich texts, and variable fonts.	Managing Work Modes
Central Tool Access	Enhanced	Tools are categorized for ease of use. Based on the product type, appropriate administrative tools are available for central access. MDM Administration Cockpit can be launched from Central Tool Access.	Central Tool Access

Root Cause Analysis

Function	Type of Change	Description	More Information
Exception Management	New	Exception management provides an overview of all exceptions that occur in the connected systems. The system displays a detailed error description for each exception. This means that you can not only analyze individual exceptions, but also identify connections between exceptions, effectively process errors, and centrally document your error correction with guided procedures.	Exception Management
Exception Management Instrumentation Platform	New	You can use the exception management instrumentation platform to monitor multi-level exceptions at runtime, for example business-critical interfaces, components, and processes.	Exception Management Instrumentation Platform

Technical Reporting

Function	Type of Change	Description	More Information
Dashboards and Dashboard Apps	New	Dashboards can display large amounts of information in a concise form, to give you a quick overview of its topics. SAP provides a dashboard framework. Dashboards comprise a set of apps which each output information about an aspect of the topic. SAP provides dashboards and apps about various topics in various work centers. You can adjust delivered apps to your requirements, or even create and register your own apps in the Dashboard Framework.	Dashboards and Dashboard Apps

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Dashboards and Dashboard Apps

New

Dashboards can display large amounts of information in a concise form, to give you a quick overview of its topics. SAP provides a dashboard framework. Dashboards comprise a set of apps which each output information about an aspect of the topic.

SAP provides dashboards and apps about various topics in various work centers. You can adjust delivered apps to your requirements, or even create and register your own apps in the Dashboard Framework.

Dashboards and Dashboard Apps