Application Operations

This document provides information about new, changed, and deleted functions in application operations in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SPS 1.

System and Application Monitoring

Function	Type of Change	Description	More Information
Interface and Connection Monitoring Exception Management	Changed	You can integrate cloud services for exception monitoring in the SAP Solution Manager Configuration work center, Managed Systems Configuration. Transaction s2c_setup is no longer available. Cloud services are now created as LMDB objects of type “External Service”. Formerly they were created as “Unspecific Standalone Application Systems”.	Integrating Cloud Services for Exception Monitoring
Job Monitoring	Changed	The classical Business Process Monitoring job rule functionality, used to identify groups of background jobs with complex naming conventions (such as dynamically generated names), is no longer available. To use custom job rules in SAP Solution Manager 7.2, implement the Job Rule BAdI definition /SOMO/UNIJOBMONRULE in the managed system.	2224161
HANA and BI Monitoring	Changed	This application is now based on SAP UI5 technology. The user interface is simplified.	HANA and BI Monitoring
System Monitoring	Changed	This application is now based on SAP UI5 technology. The user interface is simplified.	System Monitoring
PI Monitoring	Changed	This application is now based on SAP UI5 technology. The user interface is simplified.	PI Monitoring
PI Monitoring	Changed	The PI Monitoring configurations steps has changed. The steps are as follows: Configuring the managed systems Setting up System Land Directory (SLD) Connection Setting up PI Monitoring for each PI domain	Setting up Process Integration Monitoring
Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure Analysis Tools	Enhanced	New tools were added to the Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure Analysis Tools.	Display Grey Metrics Check BW History for a Metric Decommission Monitoring

Technical Analytics and Dashboards

Function	Type of Change	Description	More Information
Dashboard Builder	New	The Dashboard builder is a SAPUI5-based, coding-free and easy-to-use tool to enable SAP customers to quickly build a dashboard to visualize their data for analysis via configuration. It replaces the Dashboard Infrastructure.	Dashboard Builder

Root Cause Analysis and Exception Management

Function	Type of Change	Description	More Information
Configuration Validation	Enhanced	Bookmarked report variants now appear in the Report Directory as well as on the Bookmarks tab page.	Configuration Validation Executing a Report
Configuration Validation	Enhanced	SAP has provided a Business Add-In (BAdI) definition that allows you to define custom parameters for system selection, using ABAP coding. When creating or maintaining dynamic comparison lists, you can use your own BAdI filters instead of the standard filters.	Creating a Comparison List

Function

Type of Change

Description

More Information

Configuration Validation

Enhanced

Bookmarked report variants now appear in the Report Directory as well as on the Bookmarks tab page.

Configuration Validation

Executing a Report

Configuration Validation

Enhanced

SAP has provided a Business Add-In (BAdI) definition that allows you to define custom parameters for system selection, using ABAP coding.

When creating or maintaining dynamic comparison lists, you can use your own BAdI filters instead of the standard filters.

Creating a Comparison List

Data Volume Management

Function	Type of Change	Description	More Information
Data Volume Management	Changed	Data Volume Management is now an individual process in SAP Solution Manager. Before, it was subordinate to Application Operations.	Data Volume Management

Technical Administration

Function	Type of Change	Description	More Information
Central System Administration	Changed	The way you initially set up tasks for a system and access global customizing settings has changed. The Configuration link is no longer available. To access the Central System Administration setup, go to the Task Inbox. If no tasks have been initially set up for a system, or if it has no open tasks, a virtual task is displayed that allows you to open a Central System Administration session and configure the tasks for the system.	Central System Administration Setup
Central System Administration	Changed	You can deactivate systems or entire solutions so that they do not appear in the Central System Administration Task Inbox.	Inactivating and Reactivating Solutions and Systems
Central System Administration	Changed	All messages generated from Central System Administration now have the type Incident. The message type Issue is no longer available for this application.	Central System Administration
Central System Administration	Changed	The Central System Administration reporting functionality that was formerly available in the System Monitoring work center is no longer available. You can access Task Log Book History Reporting directly from the Technical Administration work center. You can generate reports for individual systems or for all CSA systems.	Central System Administration Reporting
Planning a Work Mode	Enhanced	Work modes planned on a technical scenario or component can also be applied to hosts or database apart from technical instances.	Planning a Work Mode