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.

To start with SAP Focused Run follow the OpenSAP training on SAP Focused Run.

Recently we are starting to add SAP Cloud ALM content.

System Monitoring:

• System monitoring: overview
• Store monitoring data longer with the aggregation framework
• System monitoring usability tips & tricks

Monitoring specific systems:

• Monitoring ADS (Adobe document server) systems
• Monitoring BW systems
• Monitoring Cloud connector systems
• Monitoring content servers

• Monitoring ECC and S4HANA systems
• Monitoring EWM systems

• Monitoring GTS system

• Monitoring Netweaver Gateway systems
• Monitoring SLT systems

• Monitoring SCM systems
• Monitoring web dispatchers

Monitoring templates:

• 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 filesystem mounted properly

• 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 mode

• Custom metric to detect resource exhaustion

• Custom metric to detect specific short dump

• Monitor number of long running jobs

Special elements in monitoring:

• System down monitoring

• Rule based template assignments

• Guided procedures: system health check for ABAP

• System analysis

• Performance analysis
• Self monitoring

• Alerting on critical metrics turning grey

Health Monitoring:

• Health monitoring overview

• Central SSL certificate monitoring

• OS process monitoring

• URL availability monitoring

Management Focused Run

• Workmode management

• IT calendar for non-Focused Run users

Batch job monitoring:

• Batch job monitoring overview in Focused Run 4.0
• Set up batch job monitoring in Focused Run 4.0
• Batch job monitoring overview in Focused Run 3.0
  • Set up batch job monitoring in Focused Run 3.0

Interface monitoring:

• Interface monitoring: overview
  • Interface monitoring setup
  • Idoc monitoring
  • ODATA Gateway monitoring
  • qRFC monitoring
  • RFC monitoring
  • SLT integration monitoring
  • Web Service monitoring

Cloud monitoring

• Cloud monitoring overview
  • Alert notification from BTP
  • Ariba monitoring
  • Cloud connector BTP certificate expiry
  • CPI Cloud Platform Integration monitoring

Process chain monitoring:

• Process chain monitoring in Focused Run

• Real user monitoring overview
  • Activating RUM (real user monitoring)

Alert management:

• 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:

• 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
  • SNC certificate expiry monitoring
  • 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
  • Simple Diagnostics Agent, enable debugging
  • 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

System analysis:

• Activating statistical records

SAP Cloud ALM:

• SAP Cloud ALM positioning 2023
• Activating SAP Cloud ALM