Job Monitoring in Technical Monitoring Work Center

The new unified Job Monitoring allows you to monitor all the business-critical background jobs, such as ABAP jobs, BW process chains, Data Services jobs, and Business Objects jobs, centrally. You monitor the jobs based on the data collected by monitoring objects that are set up from the following contexts:

Technical Monitoring - technical scenario
Job Scheduling Management - job documentation
Business Process Monitoring - Solutions

Use case

You can create a monitoring object in the Technical Monitoring work center, by creating a technical scenario that contains the technical systems to monitor.

You can create a monitoring object from an existing solution, in the Business Process Monitoring work center.

You can create a monitored object in the Job Management work center, and assign systems, logical components or solutions to monitor.

Note Note

The monitored objects that you create can be reused across all the three contexts.

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Process

The figure below explains the job configuration from all the three contexts, and monitoring them in the unified Job Monitoring application.

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

Unified Job Configuration and Monitoring

Configuration

Entry Points- Technical Monitoring Scenarios, Business Process Solutions, Job Documentation

Supported Job Types - ABAP, BW PC, Data Service, Business Objects

Configuration

The table below shows the configuration possibilities for all job types:

Job Type	Job Identified		Schedule inherited (start time, frequency)		Add Jobs Directly	Data Collection mode
Job Type	Managed system	CPS	Managed system	CPS	Add Jobs Directly	Data Collection mode
ABAP Jobs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Pull, Push
BW Process Chains	Yes	Header	No	No	No	Pull
SAP Business Objects Jobs	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Pull, Push
SAP Data Services	Yes	Header	No	No	No	Pull, Push

Note Note

Every monitored object that you create for scenarios or solutions is stored in Job Documentation by default.

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Alerting

Based on the data collection, the Calculation engine checks for the threshold values and the resulting values. Alert is triggered to the Alert Inbox, and auto incidents and notifications are created.

Monitoring

The Job Monitoring application summarizes monitored objects and the ratings from live data collection that the system persists, with a fixed number of instances of a recurring job. The application also alerts the situation of the monitored objects, based on the threshold values. You can create manual incidents and notifications if the monitored object state needs to be notified to different levels of support.

Metrics that indicate the state of the monitored object in the monitoring application are:

Job status – Failed, Active, Cancelled, Released
Time metrics - Not-started-on-time, start delay, end time, duration, out of time window
Range metrics - records processed, data packages processed, rows read
Job log messages
Job log content
Others - Parallel processing and Job active

Reporting

To analyze the status and performance of a monitored object over a period of time, the Job Monitoring application now includes reporting. Data for reporting comes from the BW store. You can check the trend chart of the alert history of the monitored object, which will help you to analyze the job and take business-critical decisions.