SAP Focused Run Guru

Welcome to the SAP Focused Run Guru homepage.

This site will be updated weekly with new content. So come back weekly!

This site is not replacing the SAP Focused Run Expert portal. It is supplementary, explaining in more detail, and providing best practices.

Main topics:

• System monitoring: overview
• Store monitoring data longer with the aggregation framework
  • System monitoring usability tips & tricks
    • Monitoring specific systems:
      • Monitoring BW systems
• • • • Monitoring ECC and S4HANA systems
• • • • Monitoring GTS system
• • • • Monitoring Netweaver Gateway systems
• • • • Monitoring SCM systems
      Fine tuning monitoring templates
      • Create custom metric for system monitoring
        • ABAP system certificate monitoring
• • • • • Custom metric for errors in table locking of TBTCO table
• • • • • Custom metric for message server disconnects
• • • • • Custom metric for user lock status
• • • • • Custom metric for web dispatcher URL monitoring
• • • • • Custom metric to detect long running DIA process
• • • • • Custom metric to detect missing hardware ID
• • • • • Custom metric to detect no more free work processes
• • • • • Custom metric to detect OS signal
• • • • • Custom metric to detect PRIV modes
• • • • • Custom metric to detect resource exhaustion
• • • • • Custom metric to detect specific short dump
      System down monitoring
  • Rule based template assignments
  • Guided procedures: system health check for ABAP
    • Monitor number of long running jobs
  • System analysis
    • Performance analysis
  • Self monitoring
    • Alerting on critical metrics turning grey
  • Health monitoring overview
    • Central SSL certificate monitoring
    • OS process monitoring
    • URL availability monitoring
  • Workmode management
    • IT calendar for non-Focused Run users

• Batch job monitoring overview
  • Set up batch job monitoring
• Interface monitoring: overview
  • Interface monitoring setup
  • Idoc monitoring
  • ODATA Gateway monitoring
  • qRFC monitoring
  • RFC monitoring
  • Web Service monitoring
• Cloud monitoring overview
  • Alert notification from BTP
  • Ariba monitoring
  • Cloud connector BTP certificate expiry
  • CPI Cloud Platform Integration monitoring
• Real user monitoring overview
  • Activating RUM (real user monitoring)
• Alert management overview
  • Using the alert management function
  • Alert notification via mail
  • Alert notification to ServiceNow
    • ABAP code for implementation of outbound integration to ServiceNow
  • Fine tuning of alert thresholds
• Configuration and security monitoring: overview
  • Check for disablement of webadmin page
  • Determining configuration changes
  • Determining cryptolib versions across the landscape
  • Monitoring RFC changes
  • Security baseline validation
    • Automatic email for security baseline validation
    • Checking existence of clients 001 and 066
    • Check if HTTP is active
  • Security notes validation
  • Transport tracking with configuration validation
  • Trend analysis for configuration and security analytics

• Dashboards
  • OCC dashboards
    • ABAP short dump trend analysis
  • Operations dashboard
  • Tactical dashboard
    • Age of system components
• Early watch
  • EWA for ABAP
  • EWA for JAVA
• Service availability management
• Task automation
  • Automatic email notification for system health check
• Simple system integration
  • SSI for ABAP system
  • SSI for JAVA system
    • Installing CA Wily Introscope
    • Configuring CA Wily Introscope
  • Deploying Simple Diagnostics Agent on managed systems
  • Mass agent update
  • Decommissioning managed systems
  • Connecting managed system to multiple Focused Run systems
• Administration:
  • Housekeeping in SAP Focused Run
  • Identifying all grey metrics
  • LMDB: set IT admin role
  • Monitoring host agent certificate expiry
  • Upgrading SAP Focused Run
• Licenses and license usage