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 | More Information |
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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 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:
The configuration templates for | |
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. | |
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 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. End of the note. |
Technical Administration
Function | Type of Change | Description | More Information |
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Service Availability Management | Enhanced | Identify expiring agreed service times (ASTs) and extend them if required. |