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Thursday, 25 April 2013

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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