SAP BPM Vs NW BPM

Business Process Monitoring tries to ensure the stable and smooth operation of a company's core business processes with a focus on traditional transaction-based processes (see also the previous SDN Blog Typical Use Cases for Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager ). The target groups are 2nd or 3rd level Application Support on IT side, IT Basis Support team and on business department side the business process or functional owners.

SAP NetWeaver BPM is focusing on the development of rule-based composite business processes as "own practices" (usually SOA-based and often workflow related). These composite processes target at enhancing existing application core business processes and should provide the fast competitive and innovative edge versus competitors. For this SAP NetWeaver provides a combination of a process modeling and execution environment with a complex rules engine (SAP NetWeaver Business Rules Management), where you can flexibly model your business process first, assign simple or complex business rules in order to automate business decisions and finally generate executable process logic. The monitoring part for these processes is mainly targeting business end-users and business managers.



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What to check when RFC Connection fails ?

Check the following:

1. Port Number
2. Hostname
3. RFC User / Password
4. RFC user authorizations


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What Scenarios used in SAP CRM Web applications?

● CRM Web Channel
● ERP E-Commerce
● Web Auctions: Selling via eBay in CRM and ERP
● Web Auctions. Auctioning via Web Shop
● Partner Channel Management
● Interaction Center WebClient
● Interaction Center Workforce Management
● Internet Customer Self-Service
● SAF




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What is SAP CRM XCM Admin Tool - [Extended Configuration Management]

Extended Configuration Management (XCM) Administration tool is used to configure Web applications, once you have installed the Web components. You use it to make configuration settings needed at runtime.

How to Launch XCM Admin tool:

http://<hostname>:<port>/b2b/admin/xcm/init.do


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How to unlock SAP J2ee_admin password

Answer:

SAP Note 669848 - Unlocking the Administrator User on the SAP J2EE Engine




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How to change SAPDB Password in SAP?

1.       Have the new password ready

2.       Stop SAP on the system where you want to make changes

3.       Launch Config tool

       Select Secure Store-->Click the tab Connections Pool

       Click on Properties Key Password   update the value with new password 

       Click Add . Apply Changes
       Old NW version change

4.       Work with your DBA to update the password on SQL/Max db where SAP instance is running

5.       Start SAP

Note : Remember your old password in case you have to backout the changes if SAP system doesn't come up.

Note : Old NW version change Secure Store--> jdbc/pool/<SID>/Password  value

RELATED: WHAT IS SAPDB USER IN SAP?

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How many types of RFC exist in SAP

RFC is used to communicate between SAP systems and SAP to Non-SAP systems using TCP/IP protocol.  RFC’s are defined in  T-Code SM59. There are 4 types of RFC’s

1. Asynchronous RFC
2. Synchronous RFC
3. Transactional RFC
4. Queue RFC

1. Asynchronous RFC – (Like a post card). The sending system may or may not receive it. i.e. there is no acknowledgement from the receiving . The transmission is not reliable.

2. Synchronous RFC – It is not like ARFC. It gets an acknowledgement from the target system. (like a register post).
If the receiving system is not available the process goes into RFC/ CPIC/ Sleep mode and waits until it is wakened by the target system. Target system/ Receiving system may be busy i.e. all the resources are used up. This is reliable but time consuming and expensive (Client Copy) the job should get finished.

3. Transactional RFC – TRFC – It is an advanced version of ARFC and SRFC. The request goes to receiving system if it is not handled a Transaction ID is generated by the source system. A program RSARFCSE is scheduled in the background to run for every 60 seconds. Transaction SM58 is used for Transactional RFC. It is used to document all the transactional ID’s and ensure that they are received by the recipient system. This is consistence and reliable.

4. Queued RFC – It is an advanced version of TRF and ensures that the transaction is committed based on FIFO/ Queue. It ensures transaction consistency of LUW and reliability of data transmission.
SMQ1 – to monitor the outbound queues of a sending system refer SCOTT for FAX…
SMQ2 – Provides interface to monitor Inbound queues.



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What are 4 typical Memory consumers in SAP systems ?

Database: Database buffers and local memory for database processes, typically about 500 MB to 1 GB
Static allocation by ABAP stack: SAP buffers and local memory for work processes (executables), typically 500 MB per server
Dynamic allocation by ABAP stack: Extended memory and heap memory
Dynamic memory allocation by Java stack: Heap size, perm size



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9 Most Typical SAP Infrastructure Challenges

Database Performance
Sizing
Configuration and Maintenance of Storage Subsystem
Network Bandwidth Planning
Data Growth and Archiving
Load Balancing
High Availabity Issues
Security Management
Transactional Consistency

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What is the Basic Concept of Standard Root Cause Analysis ?

SAP’s End-to-End Root Cause Analysis is a systematic top-down approach which avoids time consuming untargeted and intuition-based analyses.

A Root Cause Analysis is either triggered by an incident reported by a Key or End User or by an alert (solution monitoring). SAP provides monitoring for both SAP Technical Operation (E2E System Monitoring) and SAP Business Process Operation (E2E Business Process Monitoring). Their sole aim is to proactively detect errors and performance bottlenecks before they affect business continuity. Alerts are triggered based on thresholds and notify the appro-priate contacts within the IT team. The resolution of an alert should be documented in an incident induced by the recipient of a certain alert. The problem has to be recorded (if possi-ble), described, categorized and prioritized via a message in the customer’s service desk system. Incidents opened by Key or End Users are sent to first-level support.

Furthermore, proactive quality assurance tasks like integration validation tests or the check of EarlyWatch Alerts might trigger a RCA. Errors mentioned in a EWA and marked by a yellow or red light should be investigated in a proactive RCA. Those errors will be directly analyzed by the appropriate Component Expert and will not involve first-level support in general. Inves-tigations are continually documented by the expert. The outcome will in most cases result in a change and the documentation is added to the customer’s solution database.


Tags: What is the Basic Concept of Standard SAP Root Cause Analysis, Root Cause Analysis for Basis Admins,

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About PI Archiving for SAP Basis Admins

By and large Archiving applies to asynchronous (EO and EOIO) messages only on the ABAP and JAVA side. It is a general decision by SAP to not archive synchronous (Best Effort) messages and this is by design unless error occurs during processing.

SXMSPMAST is the master table that holds the key information about each of the messages going through the Integration engine. The data is persisted in this table based on the retention period defined for asynchronous and synchronous messages.

If a message enters the Integration Server the field ITFACTION of SXMSPMAST table is set to INIT. Then the interface is checked for the action to take, if it is listed as an interface for archiving, the field ITFACTION is changed to ARCH. Otherwise it changes to DEL

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3 Reasons for Poor Buffer Quality in SAP

Transports
Every time you transport new developed source into the system that is running the
tp , you invalidate all entries in the program buffer and clear all other buffers (command $SYNC ). Unlike the other buffers, the program buffer does not start empty, but is filled with invalid programs. It is very important to execute as few transports as possible and to collect data for collective transports.

Buffer resets
Setting up a buffer requires a large number of database and network accesses, and places a considerable load on the system. Therefore, only reset the buffers if inconsistencies occurred between the buffer and the database. This might happen, for example, if you update a buffered table with native SQL, that is, the database table is updated directly by bypassing the buffer. To reset the table buffers, enter
$TAB in the command field. Use the command $SYNC to reset all the SAP buffers on the application server. These commands only affect the buffers of the application server on which the commands are entered. The buffers of the other application servers in the network are not affected.
Using the commands
$TAB and $SYNC places an extremely large load on the system. In large systems, it could take up to one hour (depending on the access profile) for the buffer load to return to its original state. System performance is greatly impeded during this time.

Offline backups, SAP System reboots
Both of these actions require the SAP System to be shut down, and then started up again. All buffers of all servers are reset. Again, this takes a considerable amount of time.

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10 things about NWDI for Basis Admins

As a Basis Administration you would be performing the following tasks to support NWDI SAP projects

1 Post Installation Steps of Usage Type DI
These are the post-installation steps for using templates.
2 Configuring the NWDI User Management
Information about the different security roles that have to be set up to define the permissions for the users of the NWDI.
3 Launching the NWDI Web User Interface
How to start the Web user interface to work with the different services of the NWDI.
4 Organizing the Landscape
How to set up the development landscape.
5 Organizing the Transports in the Landscape
How to transport the submitted sources to the central storage.
6 Using CM Services
How to set up the landscape and transport changes when you are using Change Management Services (CM Services)
7 Maintenance of an NWDI-Driven System Landscape
How to maintain NWDI landscape.
8 Administration of the Design Time Repository
How to set up the central storage, the Design Time Repository (DTR).
9 Central Source File Management
The Design Time Repository (DTR) provides a versioned storage of the source files in a database. You use the DTR in all development scenarios of SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI).
10 Central Build Management
How to work directly with the Component Build Service (CBS).
Working with the Build Environment – information about how to work with the CBS.


Related Posts:

Post Installation Steps of Usage Type DI

How to Configuring the NWDI User Management

How to Launching the NWDI Web User Interface

How to Organizing the Transports in the NWDI Landscape



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How to launch NWDI (SAP) Start page

http://<host name>:<port number>/devinf

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SAP Unix command to clean resources after stopsap

Command

 > cleanipc <instance number> remove

Example: cleanipc 50 remove     (if the instance number is J50)





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SAP NW 7.3 security troubleshooting wizard screenshot

This is a new feature in NW 7.3 Java and you can use this tool to collect traces for easier troubleshooting of security related problems.

Navigation to SAP NW 7.3 security troubleshooting wizard
Login to NWA-->Troubleshooting-->Logs and Traces-->Security Troubleshooting Wizard
Choose Start Diagnostics Button

To display the traces that the wizard collected, choose Show Collected Traces in the Result subtab.

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How much time SAP migration project takes?

Experience shows that a project to migrate a small to medium, standard 3 system landscape(DEV,QAS and PRD) can have a duration of about 3 to 4 months.However,large or complex landscapes may take much longer than that.

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Ask Basis Question?

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SAP CTS+ Architecture for Dual Stack Systems (ABAP + NON ABAP)

These two pictures illustrates a CTS+ configuration of Non ABAP System landscape & Dual Stack Landscape

ABAP System acts as Domain Controller, TMS, with CTS+ components Tranport Oraganizer, Deploy WS,

JAVA System on Source uses the component CTS Client Export

JAVA System on Target uses the component CTS Import Service

CTS+ Landscape for Non-ABAP Systems
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CTS+ Landscape for Dual Stack System

Image Copyright SAP

Related Posts:
What is CTS+?

Do I have to use a Dual Stack System for CTS+?

Keywords: CTS+ architecture, One transport Order, non abap transports, Deploy ws, CM services, enhanced CTS

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How to deploy SAP GUI 7.3 using Microsoft SCCM

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What is the function module to check RFC connection

 Call the Function module "RFC_PING" and check the SY-SUBRC EQ 0.

If you want some sample code, check the where used list for this FM

And also the  function module "LDAP_CHECKIN_RFCDEST"

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How to Monitor IDOC in SolMan 7.1 BPM?

tags: How to Monitor IDOC  in SolMan 7.1 BPM, SAP BPM steps, Solution Manager BPM config steps

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SAP Testing Strategy on Windows 8 Desktop

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Windows 8 SAP Issues

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How to do a grep on env variable on SAP running in Unix

Type the command below for example grep on CPIC variavle value

env|grep -i cpic

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4 Things about SAP BW 7.3

 1 Performance & Scalability

• Scalable data models with built-in Semantic Partitioned Object (SPO)
• Optimized load performance for DataStore Objects and Master Data
• Enhanced built-in analytical capabilities for SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator
• Query as an InfoProvider enabled for mass data handling

 2 Integration with BusinessObjects

• Tighter Integration with SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 and SAP BusinessObjects Tools:
• Data Services and Metadata Manager
• Optimized integration of SAP BusinessObjects BI Tools Xcelsius, WebI

 3 Development Efficiency

• Combining real-time transactional data with historical data via HybridProvider
• Smarter data flow modeling with remarkably reduced manual effort
• Hierarchies integrated into SAP NetWeaver BW 7.x data flow
• Flexible modeling environment for analytical indices
• ABAP based Planning Modeler

 4 Simplified configuration & operations

• Faster system set-up with a wizard-based system configuration
• Enhanced monitoring capabilities with new content for SAP NetWeaver BW
• Administration Cockpit and integration in SAP Solution Manager

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T-Code to run BW 7.3 Analysis Authorizations after Upgrade

T-Code -->RSECADMIN
Go to the menu Extras -> Migrations --> Migration: release 7.00 -> release 7.30

Select Option Activate Anlytics Security objects Automatically



Tags: Note 1621223  - RSEC 730: After Import Transport functin Missing, Note 1653677 - RSEC 730: Subsequent Correction for Note 1621223, BW 7.3 AA RSECADMIN MIGRATATION,

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What are the sizing questions to ask for the SAP non-production systems?

What is the CPU/memory ratio between the production system and non-production systems?
How many TB disk space does each production TB create?
Are QAS, DEV, and Sandbox systems sized according to the number of concurrent users?






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How to Perform a Production Sizing for SAP System ?

Related Posts:

How to Perform a Production Sizing for SAP System ?
How to Perform a Delta Sizing ?
How to Perform an Upgrade Sizing ?
How to Size SAP Non-Production Systems ?

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How to Implement the Root Cause Analysis Standard?

SAP recommends to use End-to-End Root Cause Analysis in SAP Solution Manager, known as Solution Manager Diagnostics. This chapter explains prerequisites and necessary steps to implement RCA.




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Sorry, your browser/program is not supported by Web Dynpro

SOLUTION:

Set the Browser mode to  Compatibility View

See the screen below to fix the problem.

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