To monitor SAP Locks

SAP System Administration is to monitor SAP Lock Entries. It often happens in your SAP System that when your users run transaction codes and their terminal are abnormally disconnected, these situation could cause Lock Entries that could disturb any other active users doing process. Sometimes lock entries could affect your SAP performance as it blocks other users' processes and you need to delete the lock entries so that other users can continue their processes. And as part of your routine monitoring you have to regularly monitor the lock entries.

1. To monitor the lock entries go to transaction code SM12




2. Select the client and user name or leave it blank to see all the lock entries.




3. You can see detailed information for the lock argument




4. Choose one lock entry you want to delete. Be careful before deleting lock entry, make sure it's not used by any processes.

How to monitor SAP System logs

One of the tasks of SAP Basis Administrator is to maintain the health of the system and to keep the system performancegood and the SAP application runs well. You must regularly check the system log for early detection and take action if necessary. This task is part of Daily Monitoring in SAP System Management (SAP CCMS).

You check the SAP system logs from transaction SM21.
1. Click Continue if it's you first time running SM21.


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2. Choose All Remote Systems logs if you have more than one application servers.


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3. Look for any error messages, and do detailed analysis by double clicking it. You have to do thismonitoring daily. Because if too many errors happen it can affect your daily SAP Application Serverperformance.


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4. Now you can see further information from it. Actually the checking process can't run stand alone, you have to check as well error log from System Dump (ST22) or system Process (SM50/SM51)


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SAP Basis Transaction codes (T-codes)

User Administration:

 

SU01         User Maintenance
SU01D      User Display
SU02         Maintain Authorization Profiles
SU03         Maintain Authorizations
SU05         Maintain Internet users
SU10         User Mass Maintenance
SMLG        Maintain Logon Group
SUPC        Profiles for activity groups
SUIM         Info system Authorizations
PFCG        Profile Generator
PFUD        User Master Data Reconciliation

 

Client Administration:

 

SCC3        Checking Client Copy Log
SCC4        Client Administration
SCC5        Client Delete
SCC7        Client Import Post-Processing
SCC8        Client Export
SCCL        Local Client Copy
SCC9        Remote client copy

 

Database Administration:

 

DB01        Analyze exclusive lock waits
DB02        Analyze tables and indexes
DB12        DB Backup Monitor
DB13        DBA Planning Calendar
DB15        Data Archiving: Database Tables

 

Transport Management System:

 

STMS       Transport Management System
SE01        Transport and Correction System
SE06        Set Up Workbench Organizer
SE07        CTS Status Display
SE09        Workbench Organizer
SE10        Customizing Organizer
SE11        ABAP/4 Dictionary Maintenance
SE16        Data Browser
SE80        Repository Browser
SM30       Call View Maintenance
SM31       Table Maintenance

 

Background Jobs Administration:

 

SM36       Define Background Job
SM37       Background Job Overview
SM39       Job Analysis
SM49       Execute External OS commands
SM62       Maintain Events
SM64       Release of an Event
SM65       Background Processing Analysis Tool
SM69       Maintain External OS Commands

 

Spool Administration:

 

SP01       Output Controller
SP11       TemSe directory
SP12       TemSe Administration
SPAD      Spool Administration

 

Other Administration Tcodes:

 

AL11       Display SAP Directories
BD54       Maintain Logical Systems
OSS1       Logon to Online Service System
SALE IMG   Application Link Enabling
SARA       Archive Management
SICK        Installation Check
SM14       Update Program Administration
SM35       Batch Input Monitoring
SM56       Number Range Buffer
SM58       Asynchronous RFC Error Log
SM59       RFC Destinations (Display/Maintain)
SAINT      SAP Add-on Installation Tool
SPAM      SAP Patch Manager (SPAM)
SPAU       Display modified DE objects
SPDD       Display modified DDIC objects
ST11        Display Developer Traces

 

Daily monitoring TCodes:

 

AL08       Current Active Users
SM12       Display and Delete Locks
SM13       Display Update Records
SM21       System Log
SM50      Work Process Overview
SM51       List of SAP Servers
SM66       System Wide Work Process Overview
ST22        ABAP/4 Runtime Error Analysis
ST01        System Trace
ST02        Setups/Tune Buffers
ST04        Select DB activities
ST05        Performance trace
ST06        Operating System Monitor
ST10        Table call statistics
ST03        Performance, SAP Statistics, Workload
SU56        Analyze User Buffer

 

Other Monitoring Tcodes:

 

OS01       LAN check with ping
RZ01        Job Scheduling Monitor
RZ03        Presentation, Control SAP Instances
ST07        Application monitor
STAT       Local transaction statistics

 

Other Useful Transactions Codes

 

AL22        Dependent objects display
BAOV      Add-On Version Information
SA38       ABAP reporting
SE38        ABAP Editor
HIER        Internal Application Component Hierarchy Maintenance
ICON        Display Icons
WEDI        IDoc and EDI Basis
WE02        IDoc display
WE07        IDoc statistics
WE20         Partner profiles
WE21       Port definition
WE46       IDoc administration
WE47        Status Maintenance
$TAB        Refreshes the table buffers
$SYNC      Refreshes all buffers, except the program buffer