Process Chains Monitoring in BWCCMS

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Process Chains Monitoring in

BWCCMS

Applies to:

Software Component: SAP_BW , Description of Software Component: SAP Net Weaver BI 7.0

Release: 700, Level: 0018, Support package: SAPKW70018 For more information, visit the Business Intelligence homepage.

Summary

It explains about the tool BWCCMS and its effective usage in Process Chain monitoring. It shows step by step process of monitoring a process chain via this transaction. It also talks about the settings to be maintained for this transaction to function properly and according to client environment. It also tells in brief of other items that could be monitored via this transaction.

Author: Pritam Dutta

Company: Infosys Technologies Ltd

Created on: 5th March 2010

Author Bio

Pritam Dutta is a Consultant at Infosys technologies Ltd

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-bi


Process Chains Monitoring in BWCCMS


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Table of Contents

Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 3

Monitoring Process Chains in CCMS (Key points to note) ............................................................................. 3

Monitoring Process Chains in CCMS (step by step method with pictorial views)........................................... 4

Settings to be maintained ................................................................................................................................... 6

Other Transactions that can be monitored...................................................................................................... 7

Disclaimer and Liability Notice ............................................................................................................................ 9



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Introduction

We have various process Chain Monitoring Tools as below.

RSPC - Display process chain logs

RSPC1 - Display log of one chain at a time

RSPCM – Process Chain Monitoring

BWCCMS – Alert monitor that supports in monitoring and operating your SAP systems

The Computing Center Management System (CCMS) has an alert monitor that supports in monitoring and operating SAP systems. The CCMS monitor sets of the alert monitor, together with the BW monitor, contain a selection of BI-relevant standard SAP monitoring trees and monitoring trees for process chains and consistency checks in the analysis and repair environment.

Process Chain monitoring in BWCCMS (introduction)

CCMS provides a consolidated log view of all the process chains in the system. It gives clear picture of whether process chain is in progress, successful or failed by indicating the chain in Yellow, Green and Red colors respectively. By default CCMS agent for process chain is scheduled to run after every 1 hour. It uses job SAP_CCMS_MONI_BATCH_DP to collect all the logs from the system. We can easily change the scheduling in transaction SM37 as per requirements and size of the environment.

Monitoring Process Chains in CCMS (Key points to note)

The Process Chains monitoring tree contains all of the process chains that have run since the BI system was last started.

By setting the transfer parameter for method execution DAYS_TO_KEEP_LOGS in the method definition RSPC_CCMS_STARTUP, the process chain runs can be specified that needs to be displayed from those that ended before the BI system was last started. By default, this parameter is set at seven days. This means that the process chain runs from the last seven days are displayed. You get the method definition through transaction RZ21 -> Methods -> Definitions.

By double-clicking on the Process Chains monitoring tree, you can jump to process chain maintenance.

In the Process Chains monitoring tree, process chains that have run since the last start of the BI system are displayed as monitor objects, as well as those that were defined in transaction RZ21.

The nodes show the technical name of the process chain.

By double-clicking on a process chain, you jump to the maintenance for that chain.



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Monitoring Process Chains in CCMS (step by step method with pictorial views)

1. Key in transaction BWCCMS

2. On expanding further we get the below nodes.

3. On expanding the Process Chains node we see technical name of all the process chains in the system with their status (RED/GREEN/YELLOW)

4. To correct the chain which has failed (RED), we can expand its node to see the instances and the attack the required instance to correct the failure.



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5. We can go into the chain from the instance by double clicking on the same and then do the required corrections.



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Settings to be maintained

The setting as per the below screenshots has to be maintained

Batch Job behind Process chains Monitoring in BWCCMS

Below is the screenshots of the batch job and its logs behind process chain monitoring in BWCCMS.



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Other Transactions that can be monitored

DB02: This transaction keeps the log of the system space management, Performance, Backup and Health of the system

RSRV (Consistency checks in the analysis and repair environment): It is one of the most essential transaction to check the consistency of all the BI objects like Cube, DSO, Hierarchies, PSA tables, BEx objects, Documents, aggregates, DTP, BIA, Cache, Transaction data, Master data etc. CCMS provides the consolidated view of consistency of all of the above mentioned objects.

Transactional RFC and Queued RFC: CCMS also proves to be beneficial to monitor SM58 (Transactional RFC), SMQ1 (Outbound queue), SMQ2 (Inbound queue).It provides details of the calls that failed due to the communication errors, execution errors or lacking server resources.

SM37 & SM51 (Background Processing): CCMS is also useful to monitor the background jobs in the system. It provides all the details of which job got aborted on which server.

ALE Idocs Monitoring (BDMO): As shown below CCMS also provides the facility to monitor status of Outbound and Inbound ALE Idocs of the system.



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Related Content

https://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=977660&tstart=-1

http://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-bw/process-chain-531215

http://simplesap.blogspot.com/2008/06/bwccms-sap-bw-monitors.html

For more information, visit the Business Intelligence homepage.

https://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=977660&tstart=-1

http://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-bw/process-chain-531215

http://simplesap.blogspot.com/2008/06/bwccms-sap-bw-monitors.html




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