Application Operations 
This part of SAP Library gives you an overview of the changes and new features in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP12 since SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP11.
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 Application Operations process.
Technical Monitoring and Alerting
Function | Type of Change | Description | More Information |
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Parallelization of the Event Calculation Engine | New | The core of the E2E Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure is the Event Calculation Engine (ECE), which performs the most important calculations in MAI. ECE has new functions which can perform these calculations in largely in parallel and considerably improve performance, particularly in large system landscapes with a lot of managed objects. You can determine the type and scope of parallelization with parameters. | SAP Note 2014552 |
Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure Analysis Tools | Changed | The End-to-End Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure (MAI) contains a lot of analysis tools for error handling. These tools have been extended, and the corresponding transaction (MAI_TOOLS) has been restructured to facilitate the usage of the tools. | |
Dashboard for Technical Monitoring | New | You can get an overview of selected metrics and events, determined by the E2E Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure (MAI), in the Technical Monitoring dashboard. There is a list of proposed metric and event values with which to configure the dashboard, which you can adjust according to your requirements. | |
Tutorial: Creating and Registering Dashboard Apps | Changed | In the Tutorial for Creating and Registering Dashboard Apps you can create apps, detail apps, and config apps of the Dashboard Framework, including translation aspects and data provision in increasing complexity. This tutorial has been extended and now contains a chapter about creating a context app, which you can use to do configuration not on app level but for all apps of a dashboard on dashboard level. | |
Technical Information about Interactive Reporting | New | Interactive reporting displays the development of the most important metrics of your managed objects, centrally, to identify potential problems early, and give an overview of the load, availability and performance of these objects. The documentation about interactive reporting has been extended and now contains information about the technical foundations, performance, and troubleshooting tools. The documentation is divided into reporting based on the E2E Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure (MAI) and on ABAP statistical records. | Technical Information about Reporting on Monitoring Data Technical Information about Reporting on ABAP Statistical Records |
Workflow Monitoring | Enhanced | Additional analysis functions allow you to display
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Interface and Connection Monitoring | Enhanced | You can monitor additional types of interfaces:
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Interface and Connection Monitoring | Enhanced | You can monitor the performance of Web Services in a dedicated dashboard. To find values for SLA reporting, for example, you can monitor average execution times of web service operations. To get clues to root causes of poorly performing operations, you can display the average duration of processes on an hourly basis. You get an indication whether the data base, the operation, the system, or the amount of data transferred is the cause. | |
Message Flow Monitoring | Enhanced | In an SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (PI) landscape, Message Flow Monitoring (MFMon) monitors the status of business-critical message-based transactions, centrally. A business power user, for example, can check the status of B2B or A2A processes without needing to access a PI system. An application supporter can monitor the message flows, for example, to identify the root cause of failed message flow instances and resolve issues. The reporting feature helps is analyzing the alerts statuses of the message flow. | |
Job Monitoring | Enhanced | Unified Job Monitoring allows you to monitor all the business-critical background jobs such as ABAP jobs, BW process chains, Business Objects Jobs and Data Services jobs, centrally. |
Exception Management
Function | Type of Change | Description | More Information |
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Single exceptions | New | You can collect single exceptions from any defined log store (including 3rd party log stores) on many types of technical systems, not just ABAP log stores. | |
Coupling to MAI | Enhanced | For single exceptions on ABAP systems, you can automatically activate MAI-based monitoring within the exception management configuration application. The monitoring activation and setup is implemented as a second configuration step. | |
Configuring collection of exceptions | Changed | The UI for configuring collection of exceptions has changed. The Overview tab page has a new menu item, Setup IPA, for configuring collection of multi-step exceptions. | |
Applog extractor | Enhanced | Enhancement of AppLog extractor to collect for a specific message class, number, or text. | |
HANA Cloud Integration exceptions | New | Integration of HCI (HANA Cloud Integration) exceptions | |
Dell Boomi exceptions | New | Integration of Dell Boomi exceptions |
Configuration Validation
Function | Type of Change | Description | More Information |
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Documentation structure | Changed | The Configuration Validation topics have been moved in the topic structure from Change Control Management to | |
Tables and filters | Enhanced | On the Report Execution tab, Reporting Templates view, you can filter by all columns of the reference system table and the comparison list table. | |
Bookmark URL | Enhanced | When saving a bookmark, you can specify a group. You can sort and filter by the group name in the bookmark table. You can open the bookmark URL by choosing the icon in the Bookmarks table. When editing a bookmark, you can change the reference system and comparison list used in the report variant, in order to reuse the formatting of the bookmark. The values in reference system and comparison list overwrite the ones of the bookmark. | |
Comparison list maintenance | Enhanced | Dynamic and static comparison lists are maintained in the same way now. Dynamic comparison lists can now be created based on a product version search pattern. | |
Security apps | Enhanced | You can drill down to configuration validation reporting from all three Security apps. From the Security Overview and Security Details apps, right-click on the app header and choose Launch Configuration Report. From the Security List app, click on a system in the list. |
Application Operations 
Root Cause Analysis & Exception Management 
Data Volume Management
Function | Type of Change | Description | More Information |
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Improvement Projects | New | You can create Data Volume Management improvement projects with predefined objectives. You can then track your progress toward these goals using the Interactive Continuous Improvement (ICI) dashboard. | |
Forecast & Simulation Cockpit | New | Using the Forecast & Simulation Cockpit, you can experiment with different parameters to simulate the impact of various data reduction measures on the database size of a system and the expected cost savings over a defined period. | |
Decision Maker | Enhanced | You can create more detailed decision maker runs using expert mode. | |
Reorganization & Compression | Enhanced | You can simulate the potential benefits of migrating your database to SAP HANA. You can also create more detailed analyses using expert mode. | |
Impact & References | Enhanced | You can create more detailed analyses using expert mode. | |
DVM Planning Dashboard | Removed | The DVM Planning dashboard and associated apps have been replaced by the Forecast & Simulation Cockpit. |
Technical Administration
Function | Type of Change | Description | More Information |
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IT Task Management | Enhanced | IT Task Management now allows you to create simple tasks, and guided procedre-based tasks that contain automatically executable activities | |
IT Calendar | Enhanced | The IT Calendar now displays tasks created in IT Task Management, and a short description for technical systems when IT Calendar is launched for a technical system. |
Application Operations
Function | Type of Change | Description | More Information |
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Documentation structure | Changed | The application help for Application Operations provides new entry points: Under Application Operations, you can access the documentation by topics or by work centers. Under SAP Solution Manager Infrastructures, you can find information on tools, infrastructures, and frameworks that are used across SAP Solution Manager. |
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