Creating a Snapshot of an Instance
In certain error situations snapshots are created automatically by the ABAP system. Snapshots can also be created manually at any time. Various tools are provided for this.
Snapshots can be created either manually by the system administrator, or automatically by the ABAP system.
The ABAP server automatically creates a snapshot if:
- A hard shutdown was started
- Resources are used up
- Deadlock handling is active. This is the case if all work processes have the status "hold".
- Work processes, Internet Communication Manager, or the gateway crashes
- Eyecatchers in internal tables were destroyed
- Request processing gets stuck for longer than 300 seconds
If you want to create a snapshot manually independently of the above situations, you can use one of the following tools:
- SAP Management Console
- sapcontrol
- Transactions SM50 and SM51 in the ABAP system