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Monitoring Process Chains

You can monitor process chains started from within SAP with Redwood Server, this functionality offers the following advantages:

  • Allows you to migrate to full use of Redwood Server in phases
  • The process chains are displayed in a hierarchy, just like Redwood Server chains
  • You have a central point of control
  • Email/SMS Alerting of failures if you have the Active Monitoring Module

The jobs are monitored via the XBP interface job control rules. You need to create new job control rules for jobs with the name BI_PROCESS_TRIGGER.

note

It is not possible to use Redwood Server to balance the load of process chains across SAP application servers. As far as scheduling is concerned, you can only influence the parent job. You can, however, restart certain child jobs.

Prerequisites

  • SAP Note 1080558 describes the SP levels for the BW/BI releases
  • XBP 2.0 or higher
  • Redwood transport files must be loaded

ProcessServerService.SAP.XBPVariant license key

Procedure

Create the job control rule

  1. Navigate to "Environment > SAP".
  2. Choose Edit from the context-menu of the SAP System where the process chains run.
  3. On the Job Control Rules tab, fill in details of the jobs you want to monitor:
  4. The action must be set to Monitor, job name must be set to BI_PROCESS_TRIGGER and statuses Finished and Error must be checked,.
  5. A second rule needs to be created with a higher processing order to ignore stray BW jobs; The action must be Ignore and the job name must be BI_PROCESS*. No other fields need to be checked. See Job Interception Configuration for information on the fields.
  6. Choose Save & Close.

See Also

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