SAP Daily System Monitoring

Daily System Monitoring:

               SM51 SAP Servers:

1.       Check Availability of All Servers

2.        Check Process Lists for All Servers for Unusual Processes or Activities (e.g. Extra-long execution times, too many errored processes, too many sequential reports)

               SM66 Global Process Monitor:

1.       Check for over-all system process utilization

2.       Are Batch id's taking up too many DIA processes

3.      Is one user running too many BGD jobs for the same report

4.      Is one server being used heavily compared to others

              SM21 System Logs:

1.       Is there any repetitive errors in the system log

2.       Any unusual repetitive failed login attempts

            ST22 Short Dumps:

1.       Except 'Time-Out' errors, are there any short dumps?

           SMLG Logon Groups:

1.       Check load distribution (Menu: Go to-->Load Distribution)

2.       Are server response times acceptable? (< 2 sec)

3.      Is user distribution even among active servers

          ST03N Workload Analysis:

1.       Check is daily, weekly and monthly totals are being calculated for each server

2.       Check for Avg. Dialog Response Times. Is it below 2 sec

         SM12 Lock Overview:

1.       Check for outdated lock records

2.        Verify that these lock records are not actively being used and delete these lock records if they are obsolete

         SM13 Update Records:

1.       Check if the 'Update System' is active.

2.       If not active, investigate what happened

3.      Activate 'Update System' after fixing the problem

4.      Review update records of past two days and delete if errored or obsolete

        SM37 Background Job log:

1.       Check if they are any critical jobs that were canceled

2.       Identify/Fix the problem

3.      Contact canceled job user for details

4.      Reschedule if needed

       SP01 Spool Request overview:

1.       Check if there unusual number of errors in spool (>100)

2.       Check if there are spool request with more than 200 pages

3.      Should not be a need to delete any as the daily job should handle, unless too many spools are old.

       ST04 Database Activity Monitor:

1.       Check 'Data Buffer' and 'Shared Pool Cache' quality

2.       Investigate and make suggestions to the team to improve quality of these buffers

      DB02 Database Performance:

1.       Check 'Current Sizes' to see if any tablespace is above %90

2.       Add new data file to the tablespace if needed

3.      Check if there is space-critical objects

4.      Check if there are any missing objects in DB or R/3 Data Dictionary

      DB16 Database Check, Overview of message:

1.       Check if there are any messages

2.       Take immediate action to fix the problem

3.      Notify the team if there is any parameter changes or assistance needed for Production Systems

        DB24 Database Operations Logs:

1.       Check if all DB Operations are executed

2.       Check if any of the operations generated any errors

3.      Fix the problem. Notify team if needed

        DB12 Database confirms backup success:

1.       Check to see that the previous backup was successful

2.       If a backup is currently running check its status

3.      If the last backup failed, check the reason correct and resubmit.

        ST06 OS Monitor:

1.       Click on 'Detailed Analysis menu'

2.       Click on 'CPU' in 'Previous Hours' Group

3.      Check if at any past hours is > %80

4.      Notify Team if there is any such case