SAP Administration

SAP Administrator Daily Activities

SAP DAILY ACTIVITIES

1] Check that all the application servers are up:

sm51 SAP Servers
sm04/al08 Logon Users

2] Check that daily backup are executed without errors

db12 Backup logs: overview

3] SAP standard background jobs are running successfully. Review for cancelled and
critical jobs.
sm37 Background jobs--- Check for successful completion of jobs. Enter * in user-id
field and verify that all critical successful jobs and review any cancelled jobs.

4] Operating system Monitoring

st06

5] Extents monitoring
db02 Database monitoring--Check for max-extents reached

6] Check work-processes(started from sm51)

sm50 Process overview-- All work processes with a running or waiting status.

7] Check system log

sm21 System log-- Set date and time to before the last log review. Check for errors
,warning, security, message-bends, database events.

8] Review workload statistics

st03 Workload analysis of <sid>
sto2 tune summary instance

9] Look for any failed updates

sm13 update records

10] check for old locks

sm12 lock entry list

11] Check for spool problems

sp01 spool request screen-- check for spool that are in request for over an hour.
12] Review and resolve dumps
st22 ABAP Dump analysis

13] Checking .trc file in SAP trace directory for block corruption on daily basis.
C:\ORacle\sid\saptrace

14] Archive backup

brarchive -f force -cds -c
Insert the archive backup tape

15] Review NT system logs for problem

-> NT system log- look 4 errors or failures
-> NT security log- failed logon 2 sap servers
-> NT Application log -look 4 errors or failures

Tcodes used for Daily System Monitoring

After running daily system monitoring transaction, what should we check for:

In st22 look for the core dumps if any and report to the respective consultants and try to
know why it happened.

In sm21 try to check for errors.

In sp01 try to see if any spool jobs have failed.

In st02 look if any swaps are happening, swaps are not good for performance.

In st04 look for Database alert logs and Performance.

In st03 look for ratio hits.

In sm59 look for connectivety tesing if there are other systems also connected to your
SAP R/3 system

In db13 look if the jobs have run successfully.

In sm37 look for any cancelled scheduled job and take action appropriately.

In sm12 look for any pending locks from the previous days.

In sm13 look for any hanged updates, or updates pending for long or updates in PRIV
mode.