Detailed list of daily monitoring activities in Basis

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

I need a detailed list of daily activities and transactions that are to be monitored in SAP BASIS as system administrator. Iam looking out for such a document since long but could not find one . I need the activities and transactions list along with details of analysis that if something goes wrong or something is missing while performing any activity / transaction ,how to check that and how to rectify that along with descriptions of technical terms used for analysis in the transaction or during performing an activity.

I hope ppl must hv prepared such a detailed analysis list for monitoring their R/3 , BIW , Solution Manager and Portal systems . Requested to forward the needful document to me at earliest on my Email id reachme.saumya@gmail.com .

Good points guaranteed as this document is very urgent to me so shall go out of way to assign more points if document is useful .

Thanks and Regards,

Somya

[Former Member]

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[Former Member]

“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed"

[Former Member]

Daily Task:

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Check that all application servers are up. SM51 – SAP Servers

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Check the CCMS alert monitor RZ20 – CCMS Monitor - Look for Alerts

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Check work processes (started from SM51). SM50 SM66 – Process Overview - Analyze work processes with a very long "running" status or status "complete"

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Look for any failed updates (update terminates). SM13 – Update Records Check all updates with status error

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Check System Log SM21- System Log Check for: Errors

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Review for cancelled and critical jobs SM37 – Select Background jobs Review any cancelled or long running job

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Check for "old" locks SM12 – Lock Entry List Check for locks older than one day. Analyze

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Check users on system SM04 – Users AL08 – Users Review for unknown or different user ID and terminal. Take a look at the user distribution on servers

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Check for spool problems SP01 – Spool List Look for spool jobs that have been "in process" for over an hour.

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Review and resolve short dumps ST22 - ABAP Dump Analysis Look for an excessive number of dumps Look for dumps of an unusual nature

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Review workload statistics. ST03 – Workload: Analysis of <sid>

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Check QRFC SMQ1 - SMQ2 Check no. of queue entries, deregister and register queues

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Check TRFC SM58 Check hanging TRFC's

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Review UNIX system logs for problems. OS06S – OS Monitor Review operating system log

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Review buffer statistics. ST02 – Tune Summary Look for swaps

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Please note that above list is to be understand and accordingly check respect to your SAP R/3 system. Any decision to be taken is depend on your system and your analysis. This is just the few transactions which is given to help you to start with your activity.

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Reward points if this is of any help to you.

Thanks

Best Regards,

Chetan Khatri

[former_member204746]

you can try tcode SSAA which will greatly help you in accessing all monitoring transactions codes.

[markus_doehr2]

I suggest you attend an administration course and/or get a good book on SAP system administration.

Systems are pretty individual and "listing" some transaction codes without knowing how to interpret what you see doesn´t make any sense. If you see e. g. in ST22 a dump, it may or may not be critical, depending on what "modules" you use etc.

Monitoring can be automated to some extent using RZ20 and auto reaction methods so you don´t need to click through dozens of transactions manually but get e. g. a mail when something is not running as expected. However, to set that up, you need to know your system and what is running on it and what´s critical and what not.

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Markus