Menu Functions - Trace Functions / Analysis in SM50

Selected menu entries and functions of the process overview, and available system-wide process overview functions are described below:

• Write stack:

   Administration  Work Process  Write Stack 

  To find out the current status of a process, you can write the ABAP and C stacks. The ABAP stack is written only if the process is currently running an ABAP program and can identify the ABAP stack.

• Display trace file:

   Administration  Trace  Display File  Current/Previous  (or icon: .)

  All components that were selected under Active Components are displayed in the trace file.

• Download trace file:

   Administration  Trace  Save as Local File 

  With this function you can download one or more trace files to your local PC.

  See saving trace files locally

• Reset trace file:

   Administration  Trace  Reset  All Files/Work Process Files 

  You can reset all trace files or just trace files for individual work processes. All Files means all dev*files on this server. As well as work process traces, traces from the gateway, dispatcher, ICM, RFC, and so on, are also reset. Caution: After the trace files have been reset, the information contained in them is lost and cannot be retrieved.

• Create snapshot:

   Administration  Snapshot  Create .

  Here you can create a snapshot to use for error analysis, which is then managed in the $(DIR_GLOBAL)/sapcontrol/snapshots directory of the system.

• Manage snapshot and saving locally:

   Administration  Snapshot  Administration .

  Here you can jump to transaction SNAPSHOTS. Here you can manage snapshots and save them to your local PC.

• Manage dispatcher trace file:

   Administration  Trace  Dispatcher  Change Trace Level / Display File / Save as Local File / Reset File 

  Here you can change the trace level of the dispatcher trace file, display the trace file, save the file locally, and reset the trace file.