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Monitoring/Logging
Monitoring/Logging
- Decrease Problem Determination Costs and Increase User Satisfaction with SAP
Logging Solutions
by David F. Jenkins, Director Consultant, RCG Information Technology
Proper attention to error messages after batch and background programs have executed can significantly reduce the time it takes to determine program and user problems. Laying the groundwork for such error recovery can provide all the necessary information for problem analysis and guide users, support personnel, and developers through the recovery process. This article presents details of standard SAP error-logging functionality - the standard job log and the SAP Application Log - that you can utilize to enhance your programs' usefulness and potentially reduce personnel costs and capital outlays.
- Get big rewards from a little extra code: A developer's guide to boosting the
reliability of your Java-based applications with State Monitoring in SAP
NetWeaver '04
by Robert Heidasch, Enterprise Services Infrastructure, SAP AG
SAP NetWeaver developers have a range of coding options and techniques available for building effective Java-based applications. What if, with relatively little effort, you could also make your applications more reliable and easier to support? The State Monitoring functionality included with SAP NetWeaver '04 not only enables you to establish a customized early warning system for system administrators, it also helps you to fix problems in the application more efficiently through quick, systematic, and selective information. This article shows you how to implement State Monitoring in your own custom-built Java applications, and how to avoid potential problems that can decrease system performance.
- Getting more from State Monitoring in SAP NetWeaver ’04 — achieve maximum
flexibility with its advanced programmatic interface
by Robert Heidasch
Using the State Monitoring functionality of SAP NetWeaver ’04 makes identifying and resolving problems in your custom-built Java applications much easier. However, adding too many static monitoring elements up front can quickly lead to a cumbersome, resource-intensive monitoring solution. Fortunately, State Monitoring offers a programmatic interface that can be used to improve flexibility and performance. With the programmatic interface, you can create and remove monitoring elements dynamically during runtime, so that they appear only when needed. This article shows you how to use the programmatic interface and provides practical tips for getting the most out of your monitoring solution.
- Increase productivity with a proven methodology for change request management
by Anton Karnaukhov, Business Process Technologies Manager, Pacific Coast Companies, Inc.
Change request management isn’t the same as change management. It’s a means of keeping track of the various change requests that come in from around the company after a major system implementation. You need a way to track these requests, regardless of what they are. For large issues, you may want to open a new project, but for small ones you just need a way to track the fix. That’s why it’s important to have a reliable, scalable methodology to manage the change requests. This article gives you a guideline for such a change request management process, and it includes several KPIs
to ensure that the process remains transparent to both business and IT.
- Keep Your Java-Based Systems and Applications Running Smoothly with Early
Problem Detection: A System Administrator's Guide to State Monitoring in SAP
NetWeaver '04
by Robert Heidasch, SAP NetWeaver Foundation Group, SAP AG
Consider how much time and effort you would save if you could quickly determine at a glance that your systems are operating properly or — better yet — have the systems alert you to any problems and their potential severity. This article introduces you to the State Monitoring solution built into SAP NetWeaver ’04. It shows you how to take advantage of the provided administrative tools for managing and viewing monitoring data — the Monitoring Service in the Visual Administrator and the Alert Monitor in CCMS — and provides guidelines for identifying and resolving any problems that might occur with the monitoring configuration or functionality.
- Optimizing, Monitoring, and Fine-Tuning a Newly Upgraded Release 4.x Spool Service
by Uwe Krüger
For Release 3.x spool servers, all output requests and related management activities are anchored by a single spool work process. Needless to say, processing bottlenecks can be a common occurrence, forcing administrators to add additional R/3 servers just to get more spool work processes. Release 4.x spool servers, which can support multiple spool work processes, yield far better throughput and performance. Just how many spool work processes should you set up on your Release 4.x spool server?
This article provides you with evaluation criteria and guidelines to answer that question and simple scenarios that illustrate how to apply these factors in a real-world situation.
- Pinpoint Problems in Java-Based Applications with Ease Using SAP NetWeaver '04
Logging and Tracing: A System Administrator's Guide
by Robert Heidasch, SAP NetWeaver Foundation Group, SAP AG
As an SAP system administrator, you know all too well how many hours, and sometimes days, you can spend investigating system problems. You have probably used the ABAP-based system log or user log to identify problems in ABAP-based applications, but what do you do when the problem is in a Java-based application? This article introduces you to the Java logging and tracing functionality included with SAP NetWeaver ’04. It provides an overview of Java logging and tracing concepts, and how they apply to the SAP NetWeaver ’04 environment, and shows you how to configure Java-based logging and tracing using the tools provided with the SAP NetWeaver platform.
- Standardize your testing and improve software reliability - Integrate SAP
Solution Manager with SAP Quality Center by HP
by Henrik Zimmermann, Senior Product Manager, SAP AG, and Jürgen Tonhäuser,
Development Architect, SAP AG
SAP Solution Manager is SAP's answer to business' increasing needs to manage systems, promote flexibility, and control and document change. You can integrate SAP Solution Manager and SAP Quality Center by HP to provide a more efficient testing process that improves software quality and reliability, standardizes testing, and consolidates results in a single view. This article surveys the SAP Solution Manager testing tools Test Workbench and extended Computer Aided Test Tool (eCATT) and in particular focuses on the integration of the partner product SAP Quality Center by HP via the SAP Solution Manager adapter for SAP Quality Center by HP.
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