To monitor interface channels for a selected scenario, display the following information:
Interface Channel Topology tab page:
Landscape: In a graphical overview, display the interface channels between systems, by type.
Detail information: Display the interfaces and attributes assigned to each interface channel.
Metric Details: Display the status and current values of interfaces, by metrics
Dashboards tab page: On the level of interface channels or individual interfaces, for each metric, display the values for the selected time range. Values are measured in intervals of 1 minutes or 5 minutes, depending on the metric. If you have assigned attributes to the interface channels, you can filter the data.
Depending on the interface type, the following metrics are displayed, for example:
Interface Channel Type | Category | Available Metrics |
---|---|---|
RFC | Availability | Availability of RFC channel A simulated function call is executed every minute to measure the availability, as the percentage of successful function calls in an interval of 5 minutes. |
Performance | Number of RFC executions | |
Average RFC response time in an interval of 5 minutes | ||
Exception | Number of RFC exceptions | |
Web Service (WS) | Availability | Availability of WS If configured, a simulated function call is executed every minute to measure the availability, as the percentage of successful function calls in an interval of 5 minutes. |
Performance | Number of WS executions | |
response time in an interval of 5 minutes | ||
Exception | Number of WS exceptions | |
SAP NW PI | Performance | Total number of successful PI messages |
Exception | Number of erroneous PI messages | |
SAP NW Gateway | Performance | Average response time of a service execution |
Number of service executions | ||
File system | Availability | Number of files available matching a file name pattern |
Performance | Size of files | |
Age of files | ||
IDoc | Exceptions | Number of erroneous IDocs |
Performance | Number of processed IDocs | |
Average IDoc processing time | ||
qRFC | Exceptions | Age of oldest critical status in group |
Number of qRFC entries with critical status in group | ||
Performance | Number of entries with interim status in group | |
Age of oldest interim status in group | ||
tRFC | Exceptions | Age of oldest entry in critical state |
Number of tRFC entries in critical state | ||
Performance | Number of tRFC entries in interim state | |
Age of oldest entry in interim state | ||
bgRFC | Exceptions | Age of oldest unit in error state |
Number of erroneous queues/destinations |
You have configured an ICMon scenario. For more information, see Configuring an Interface Channel Monitoring Scenario.
You have display user authorization.
In the Technical Monitoring work center, choose Interface Monitoring.
On the Interface Channel Monitoring tab page, select a scenario and choose the Interface Channel Monitoring pushbutton.
Define the time interval to monitor.
If you have created multiple scenarios and attributes, to display the scenario list and the attributes, if maintained, choose Filters.
To display the current status of a system or interface,
Choose Metric Details.
Double-click the status icons of an interface channel.
Under Metric Details, the node is expanded and the current metric data is shown (the average response time in ms, for example).
Note
The Metrics Details view is only displayed if alerting was activated for the interface channel.
To display the items on the Landscape dashboard app, as arranged by the administrator, choose
.To display the data for a certain interface channel only, in the legend of the chart, position the mouse on the name of the interface channel.
To drill down to individual interfaces, in the legend of the chart, double-click the interface channel, or on a data point in the chart.
If configured, you can drill down to performance metrics on the level of instances. This data is only available for RFC or web services interfaces.
If you want an interface channel or interface to be not displayed in the chart, in the legend of the chart click the name of interface channel or interface
If you have activated alerting, to display alert details and to process alerts, in the dashboard apps, choose Alert Inbox.
If exceptions occurred, you can start the Exception Management Cockpit, to have, for example, the following options:
Display details of an exception
Create an incident or a notification
For more information, see Exception Management.