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Purpose

The following section contains a short overview of the operation of the Alert Monitor. For more information, see the Tutorial for the Alert Monitor.

Process Flow

To perform a a periodic check of your monitored systems, follow the procedure below:

1. Start the alert monitor by calling transaction RZ20.

2. The system displays the
tree structure of the desired monitor. The system is displaying the Current Status view in which you can monitor the current values of your monitoring attributes. If you want to analyze an alert, choose the corresponding monitoring tree element (MTE) by double clicking it.
3. You can then check what has happened since the last check in the system. Use the Open Alerts monitoring view to see if there have been yellow or red alerts (warnings or problems). If you choose an alert in this view by double clicking it, the system displays the
Alert-Browser. This displays all alerts that have not yet been analyzed in a flat hierarchy.
4. After you have analyzed an alert and taken the necessary action, set it to Completed to remove it from the display of open alerts.

See Also:

Change Views: Current Status/Open Alerts

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The following prerequisites must be met so that you can use memory management with your R/3 System (Release > 4.0A):

• The swap space may not fall below a specified level.
• You may have to install additional main memory.
• You must reset various operating system parameters and, if necessary, they must be inserted in a new operating system kernel.
• You may also have to reconfigure hardware and software.

In the following sections, you will find information about the prerequisites for swap space and main memory.

For UNIX and Windows NT, refer to the following documents for more information about changes to the kernel parameters and software prerequisites:

• UNIX Systems: R/3 Installation on UNIX -- OS Dependencies. You receive this document with the installation and upgrade packages.
• Windows NT Systems: Documentation on installing and upgrading and in
Memory Management under Windows NT

The following documents contain details about hardware prerequisites for UNIX and Windows NT:

• For installations, you can find details in the installation documentation.
• For upgrades, you can find details in this document and the upgrade documentation. For additional information, see the upgrade and installation notes for the SAP online system as well.

Swap Space Requirements

Main Memory

Data Segment Size (UNIX)

Minimizing the Windows NT File Cache

VPAGEMAX under OSF/1

Shared Memory ID under IBM AIX

Memory Pool Requirements for AS/400

Checking the Hardware and Operating System of the Host System

Symptom

Corrective action

After starting up the memory management, you must monitor the swap space and the operating system paging. Problems can arise if the swap space is insufficient, or the operating system paging exceeds a specific amount.

Use the CCMS tools in R/3 for monitoring (data source: saposcol). To start the tools, call transaction ST06.

This section covers the following topics:

Checking Unused Working Memory using Transaction ST06

Memory Pools on AS/400

Checking Page Fault Rates

Using the R/3 Program sappfpar, you can check the profile of an application server and the hardware resources of the host.

Under UNIX, use the following syntax:

/usr/sap//SYS/exe/run/sappfpar check pf=/usr/sap//SYS/profile/ nr= name= | more

call pgm(sappfpar) parm( 'check' 'pf=/usr/sap//SYS/profile/' 'nr=' 'name=')

Here, Profile name is the profile name used by the corresponding application server. Program sappfpar is in the kernel library.

If you work with the Maintain Profile function (Transaction RZ10) in the Computing Center Management System, you can begin the error check using the function Check in the initial screen.