Tools for Monitoring the System

The SAP system contains various tools for displaying detailed information on application servers, user sessions, and work processes.

If you want to work with these tools, navigate to Administration System Administration on the initial SAP screen or go to transaction S002. The initial screen for system administration appears. The tools are available under Administration and Monitors.

There are also test programs that you can use at operating system level to monitor the message server or the gateway.

Administration Tasks

This documentation describes the following topics:

Administration Task (Topic)	Purpose
Consistency Check	You run the consistency check directly after the installation. This ascertains possible inconsistences before the system is placed into productive operation.
Overview of SAP Application Servers	You can see all the application server instances of the SAP system and monitor and change their states.
Monitoring and Administration of the SAP Message Server	The message server is the central location where information about the application servers is kept and where messages are exchanged between servers.
Displaying and Controlling Work Processes	You can see the activity of work processes belonging to an instance, assess the utilization of work process, and manage the work processes.
Displaying and Managing User Sessions	You can see which users are logged on the instance and which resources are being used. You can manage user sessions here.
Trace Functions	To track errors, you can configure and evaluate traces at various levels.
Workload Monitor	The workload monitor (transaction ST03) is for analyzing statistical data on the ABA kernel to determine the cause of possible performance problems.
Administration of the Number Range Buffer	You can get status information about this buffer and can configure it in line with your requirements.
Process SAP System Messages	You can send all users that are logged on to the SAP system important notifications in the form of short messages.
ABAP Dump Analysis (in the ABAP documentation)	You can display summaries of short dumps created when an ABAP program terminates abnormally.
Using the SAP Gateway Monitor in the SAP System	With the gateway monitor, you can monitor and manage existing RFC connections.
Monitoring RFC Resources on the Application Server	Here you can check the utilization of work processes by parallel RFCs, and change the configuration if there is a resource bottleneck.
System Log	All warnings and errors that occur in the system are recorded in the system log.
HTTP Logging	If your system processes HTTP requests using the ICM (for example, Web Dynpro ABAP applications), you can record these requests.
Database Monitor	The database monitor checks important performance indicators in the database system, such as the database size, quality of the database buffer, and the database indexes.