System monitoring is a daily activity to check the system activities whether the activities are performing correctly or not. System monitoring also involves proactive system monitoring of SAP system helps to understand issues in advance and take corrective actions.
System monitoring increases the system performance and profitability of the business organisation. Some of the System Monitoring Task are –
- ABAP Dump Analysis.
- Buffer Statistics.
- Checking Application Servers.
- CPU Utilization.
- Database available space.
- Database Check.
- Database Performance Monitor.
- Monitoring Application Users.
- Monitoring Batch Jobs.
- Monitoring Lock Entries.
- Monitoring System Log.
- Monitoring System-wide Work Processes.
- Monitoring Update Processes.
- Monitoring Individual Instances Work Processes.
- Number of Print Requests.
- Spool Request Monitoring.
Daily Monitoring tasks –
| TCODE | Description |
|---|---|
| DB02 | Database Growth Missing Indexes. |
| DB12 | Check that daily backup executed without errors. |
| DB13 | Database Statistics log. |
| SM12 | Check for “old” locks. |
| SM13 | Look for any failed updates. |
| SM21 | Check system log. |
| SM37 | Review for canceled jobs. Check job log. |
| SM50 | Check work processes. |
| SM51 | Check that all application servers are up. |
| SM66 | Global Work Process overview. |
| SP01 | Check for spool problems. |
| ST02 | Review buffer statistics. |
| ST04 | Review error log for problems. |
| ST22 | Review and resolve dumps. |