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This part of SAP Help Portal gives you an overview of the changes and new features in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SPS 14 since SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SPS 13.

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

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Interface and Connection Monitoring

Exception Management

Enhanced

New monitoring templates and metrics allow you to integrate the following cloud services into an SAP-based hybrid monitoring scenario:

  • SAP Sales and Operations Planning, powered by SAP HANA

  • SAP SuccessFactors

SAP SuccessFactors has provided a central API to expose exceptions to SAP Solution Manager in a more generic way, and to enable direct collection of exceptions via HTTP.

Exception data can be collected for the following types of SAP SuccessFactors processes:

  • Event API

  • Scheduled Jobs

  • Integration

  • Simple Integration (internal communication between SuccessFactors components)

  • Smart Suite

The configuration templates for SuccessFactors - Employee Central and SuccessFactors - Learning have been deprecated.

Integrating Cloud Services for Exception Monitoring

Interface and Connection Monitoring

Enhanced

Display not only specific ICMon scenarios but an overview of the status of all ICMon scenarios. From the overview, go to the alert inbox or drill down to interface channels in a specific scenario in the monitoring UI, if an error is indicated.

Displaying Interface and Connection Monitoring Scenarios

Job Monitoring

Enhanced

A flexible new monitoring configuration for SMSE jobs allows you to add externally managed jobs and job chains (by header) as monitoring objects.

Data is pulled from the external scheduler by means of a remote database connection.

For active monitoring objects, you can view job details per job instance, including the job chain hierarchy (if applicable), in the job monitor.

Note Note

SAP Central Process Scheduling (SAP CPS)/SAP Business Process Automation (SAP BPA), is supported for SMSE job monitoring by default. Other SMSE-certified external schedulers may be connected on a project basis.

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Job Monitoring

Technical Administration

Function

Type of Change

Description

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Service Availability Management

Enhanced

Identify expiring agreed service times (ASTs) and extend them if required.

Creating Follow-Up ASTs