Process Chains monitoring

Purpose

This monitor is dedicated to surveillance of SAP process chains BI. It will watch for execution error status, duration, delay and job occurrence. You can set general rule to watch any process chain and be notified as soon as any fails. You can also configure specific rule for a given job to monitor its real schedule or duration.

Configuration hints

Use the surveillance table to adjust the monitoring settings: - Use “Load process chains” button to discover jobs available in the system. - Select a line and click “Wizard” to open the monitoring configurator. - You can set specific threshold and severity for job status, duration, delay and schedule metrics. - You can also define the execution calendar of the job in order to stop its monitoring when it is not running Note: Job occurrence monitoring can only be configured via the wizard. You will have to define the expected schedule window, by defining its recurrence and duration.

Atomic fields

Exclusion List	The exclusion list can be used when you activated to SAP jobs collection in the daily report monitor job. You can specify a list of jobs that you want to ignore, so they do not appear in the report. Note: This has no effect on the real time surveillance!

Surveillance table

Parameter	Description
Active	Use this field to activate or deactivate a line of configuration.
Chaine name	A filter to define the process chain that you want to monitor. Use * for all.
Schedule info	Defines the schedule defined for the process chain. This field can only be modified via the wizard.
Max errors	The threshold for the maximum number of aborted process chains within a period.
Error alarm severity	Defines the severity of the alarm to send if a process chain is aborted.
Aggregate	If checked, an alarm will be sent if the total number of aborted process chains is over the threshold. If not check, then one alarm will be sent per process chain having a number of abort status equal or greater than the threshold.
Max duration	The threshold for the maximum duration
Duration alarm severity	The severity for the duration alarm.
Max delay	The threshold for the maximum execution delay.
Delay alarm severity	The severity for the delay alarm.
Occurence alarm severity	The severity used for schedule alarm.
Calendar	The execution calendar of the Process chain. The check won't be performed on calendar's closed days.
Alarm tag	This field allows to add custom text within the alarm message. %MSG% variable will contain the actual generated message and can be used such as: “my_prefix %MSG% my_suffix”. By default, tag will be used as prefix.
Alarm	If checked, this line of surveillance will be used for alarm generation.
Metric	If checked, this line of surveillance will be used for metric generation.

Examples

Active	Chaine name	Schedule info	Max errors	Error alarm severity	Aggregate	Max duration	Duration alarm severity	Max delay	Delay alarm severity	Occurence alarm severity	Calendar	Alarm tag	Alarm	Metric
true	*	From last 15 min	1	CRITICAL	false	DISABLED	DISABLED	DISABLED	None	true	false

Effect : A CRITICAL alarm will be sent for each aborted process chain occured in the last 15 minutes

Examples

Active	Chaine name	Schedule info	Max errors	Error alarm severity	Aggregate	Max duration	Duration alarm severity	Max delay	Delay alarm severity	Occurence alarm severity	Calendar	Alarm tag	Alarm	Metric
true	MY_CHAIN	Every 15 MINUTES Starting 2015/01/01 10:00	1	CRITICAL	false	15	WARNING	DISABLED	MAJOR	None	true	false

Effect : Sends a CRITICAL alarm if process chain MY_CHAIN is aborted. Sends a WARNING alarm if it runs for more than 15 minutes. Sends a MAJOR alarm if the the process chain does not run and terminate every 15 minutes (one alarm per missed slot).

Generated metrics

metricId	metricUnit	metricTarget	metricDescription
PROCESSCHAINS_DURATION	Seconds	Process Chain Name	Sends the duration of the process chain
ABORTED_PROCESSCHAINS	Process chains	Process chain filter	Sends the number of aborted process chains matching the filter.