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Function documentationJob Management Work Center

 

This work center is the central point of access to all functions for requesting, documenting, scheduling, and monitoring background jobs.

Prerequisites

  • You are authorized for this work center. For more information about the roles and their authorizations in Job Scheduling Management, see the SAP Solution Manager Security Guide in the SAP Service Marketplace, under Start of the navigation path http://service.sap.com/instguidesInformation published on SAP site Next navigation step SAP Components Next navigation step SAP Solution Manager Next navigation step <current release> Next navigation step 4 Operations End of the navigation path.

  • A business partner is assigned to your system user.

Features

The Job Management work center is organized into the following views:

Overview

This view provides overview information with direct links to the queries defined for the following work center views:

  • Job Requests

  • Job Documentation

  • External Scheduler Management

  • SAP Scheduler Management

  • Task Inbox

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You can set the refresh rate for the overview by using the Page Update Settings link.

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Job Requests

In this view, you can display, edit, and create job requests. The standard queries allow you to easily view and edit the job requests that you created or that are assigned to you for processing.

From the list of job requests, you can open the linked CRM document (incident or request for change) in the WebClient UI for further processing.

For more information, see Job Requests.

Job Documentation

In this view, you can display, edit, and create job documentation.

When you select job documentation in the list, the system displays job details below, including job steps, basic business information, and scheduling information. You can open the job documentation to view or edit complete details.

For more information, see Job Documentation.

Monitoring

The Monitoring view has the following subviews:

  • Alert Inbox

    Displays job alerts generated by business process monitoring.

  • Unified Alert Inbox

    Displays job alerts for technical monitoring objects (JobMon) generated by the Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure (MAI).

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    If the technical job monitoring object (JobMon) is assigned to a solution and a business process or interface, this information will also be displayed in the Unified Alert Inbox.

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  • Job Monitoring

    In this view, you can track the status of all metrics of technical job monitoring objects, independently of the alert creation. For this purpose, for each active technical monitoring object, it provides a list with the metric data for previous data collector runs.

For more information on job monitoring activities and configuration, see Job Monitoring.

External Scheduler Management

In this view, you can manage jobs scheduled with an external job scheduler via the SMSE (Solution Manager Scheduling Enabler) interface.

The External Scheduler Management view has the following subviews:

  • Job Monitor

    Display a list of jobs scheduled with an external scheduler. You can define queries and apply externally defined filters to select data.

    Access functions for analyzing, monitoring, and scheduling selected jobs.

    Create new job definitions and new job and job chain documentation and request new jobs or job changes.

    Import jobs, with their scheduling parameters, into job documentation.

  • Operator Messages

    Display operator messages from your external scheduler.

For more information, see External Scheduler Management.

SAP Scheduler Management

In this view, you can manage jobs scheduled with the SAP Scheduler via the BC-XBP interface.

The SAP Scheduler Management view has the following subviews:

  • Job Monitor

    Display jobs scheduled with the SAP Scheduler.

    Access functions for analyzing and scheduling selected jobs.

    Create new job definitions and new job and job chain documentation and request new jobs or job changes.

  • Own Jobs

    Queries are limited to jobs owned by you.

For more information, see SAP Scheduler Management.

Recommended Jobs

In this view, you can manage job documentation system-specifically, for example, for the following:

  • ABAP jobs

  • SMSE jobs

  • Standard jobs

You can go to job scheduling with an external scheduler (SMSE interface) or the SAP scheduler (BC-XBP interface).

For more information, see Scheduling Recommended Jobs.

Task Inbox

This view shows a list of job documentation tasks. You can query tasks by start date, due date, assigned processor, and task creator. If authorized, you can create new tasks and display, edit, and delete existing tasks.

For more information, see Tasks Tab Page.

Reports

This view contains the following reports:

  • ABAP Reports

    • Job Documentation

      Searches job documentation so you can monitor it and avoid duplication.

    • Job Requests (CRM Web UI)

      Searches job requests (linked to incidents or requests for change) created in CRM 7.0.

    • Job Requests and Job Change Documents (CRM 5)

      Searches job requests created in CRM 5.0.

    For more information, see ABAP Reports.

  • BW Reports

    • Job alerts with trend analyses

      The report provides a Business Process Monitoring alert trend analysis that is restricted to job alerts. For more information, see Reports: Business Processes Operations

    • Monitoring BW process chains

      This report gives you an overview of the job scheduling in the managed systems, for example, by user, job status, and runtime. You can display the analysis results by day, week or month. For more information, see Monitoring Process Chains.

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    To get the results of these analyses, certain SAP Solution Manager Customizing settings are required. For more information, see Job Scheduling Management Health Check Reports. For more information about how to perform business process analyses, see Creating an Analysis Variant As a Configuration User.

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Administration

In this view, the administrator can perform various administrative tasks.

  • For job control, prepare the following:

    • Specify the BACK destination for the RFC connection from the managed system to SAP Solution Manager

    • Define criteria profiles and activate or deactivate them for users

    For more information, see Job Control for Managed Systems.

  • For BW analyses with Job Scheduling Management, prepare the following:

    • Data collection for this analysis

    • Job scheduling health check reports

    For more information, see Job Scheduling Management Health Check Reports.

  • For external scheduling, manage and configure external job scheduling.

  • To configure new users, create business partners.

Common Tasks

Under Common Tasks, you find quick links to the following frequently used job management tasks:

  • Create a basic or detailed job request

  • Create job or job chain documentation

  • Access the template directory

  • Analyze jobs with the batch job analysis tool

  • Analyze jobs in a Gantt chart

  • Schedule jobs directly

  • Import jobs into job documentation

  • Select jobs in your managed systems to check details centrally from SAP Solution Manager

  • Link jobs in your managed systems with job documentation

More Information

For more information about general SAP Solution Manager work center functions, see Using the Work Center.