PI/XI messages ABAP

PI/XI messages ABAP

This monitor is dedicated to the monitoring of PI/XI messages status of ABAP stack instances.
It requires to be associated with an ABAP connector to the target SAP system

Configuration hints

With this monitor, you will have the possibility to detect and to be notified when a message or a group of messages has a particular status.
Use the surveillance table to define the monitoring settings.
Set the clients from which to collect the messages (Client is not a filter, but the parameter of a query)
You can filter in or out certain types of messages by using Sender, Receiver and Emit/Rec Interface fields.
You can adjust the level of alarm severity depending on the type of status or on message properties.
A disabled severity will filter out the messages matching the filters, for all subsequent lines.
This monitor will analyze the messages received since the last check time, with a maximum analyze depth of 60 minutes.

Atomic fields

Message Limit	The maximum number of message to fetch per call. This is a security to prevent downloading too much data.

Surveillance table

Parameter	Description
Active	Use this field to activate or deactivate a line of configuration.
Status	Define the type message status to look for.
Client	The client in which the messages will be collected
Sender	A filter on the sender of the messages.
Receiver	filter on the receiver of the messages.
Sender interface	A filter on the message emitter interface.
Receiver interface	A filter on the message receiver interface.
PID	A filter on the message PID.
Max. messages	The threshold for the number of messages going through the filter.
Aggregates	If not set, one alarm per message matching the filters will be sent. If set, an alarm will be sent only if the cumulated number of messages matching the filter is not below the threshold.
Severity	The default severity to apply when the simple threshold syntax is used.
Auto clear	If checked, the alarm will be cleared as soon as the alarm condition is not met anymore.
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.
Report	If checked, this line of surveillance will used for showing threshold and severity in the daily report

Examples

Active	Status	Client	Sender	Receiver	Sender interface	Receiver interface	PID	Max. messages	Aggregates	Severity	Auto clear	Alarm tag	Alarm	Metric	Report
true	ANY_ERROR	000	*	*	*	*	*	1	false	MAJOR	true		true	false	false

Effect : Sends a MAJOR alarm per messages having an ERROR state since the last check time.

Examples

Active	Status	Client	Sender	Receiver	Sender interface	Receiver interface	PID	Max. messages	Aggregates	Severity	Auto clear	Alarm tag	Alarm	Metric	Report
true	SYSTEM_ERROR	000	*	*	*	*	*	10	true	CRITICAL	true		true	false	false

Effect : Sends a CRITICAL alarm if 10 or more messages have a SYSTEM_ERROR state since the last check time.

Generated metrics

metricId	metricUnit	metricTarget	metricDescription
PIXI_ABAP_MESSAGES_STATUS	Status	[TYPE][CLIENT][SENDER][RECIVER][EMIT_INT ][REC_INT][PID]	Sends TRUE if the rule generated an alarm for this filter, FALSE instead.
PIXI_ABAP_MESSAGES_STATUS_COUNT	Message errors	[TYPE][CLIENT][SENDER][RECIVER][EMIT_INT ][REC_INT][PID]	Sends the number of messages matching the filter

Table of Contents

PI/XI messages ABAP

Configuration hints

Atomic fields

Surveillance table

Examples

Examples

Generated metrics