SAP PI 7.3 New Local Monitoring Tools

This blog explains about PI 7.3 New Local Monitoring Tools:

Upon completion of this blog, you should be able to :

• Understanding each functionality of Local monitoring
• Understanding how it is helpful in daily work
• Comparing with current functionalities with your PI version

Introduction to Local monitoring Tools:

• User defined search   
• Idoc Monitor
• Integration Process Monitor
• Message monitor, Channel monitor, Component monitor, New Background Job Monitor for IE

Some highlights in local monitoring tools:

SAP NetWeaver PI 7.3 introduces an improved set of web tools to monitor the complete PI installation:

Key New Monitoring Features:

• User Defined Message Search

               1. Logical connections (and/or)

               2. Interface Independent

• Message Status Detail

              1. Shows the errors and error category “inlined” with the message.

• IDoc Status

              1. IDoc adapter status also integrated in message monitoring

• Download messages and payload in NWA

• Ping Adapter Status

              1. Retrieves adapter information at runtime User

PI Configuration & Monitoring Home Page Screenshots:

New Monitoring Features at a Glance:

User-Defined Message Search in Message Monitoring:

• Payload fields are extracted during message processing, and stored in an index table
• Only for messages that meet specific filter criteria
• Index is archived together with message
• Payload search integrated into local message monitoring on each component
• Search for all attributes (AND) or search for at least one attribute (OR)
• User-defined attributes are displayed for each message (if available)

Configuring User-Defined Message Search:

• Local configuration on each component

          1. NWA for Adapter Engine
          2. SAPGui for Integration Engine

• Configuration steps:

          1. Define Filters for Indexing

• For each filter, define Extractors

         1. XPath expression for Payload Fields
         2. Adapter-specific Headers

Navigating User-Defined Message Search :

Access the “Integration Engine” (Adapter for Web Services runs in the Integration Engine):

Start the “Message Monitor” for Database messages:

User-Defined Message Search in Message monitoring :

This is the Web browser based version of ABAP transaction SXI_MONITOR, which you could also run in the SAPGUI.

User-Defined Search :

• Change the time range to cover August 2010

• Switch  to the “User-Defined Selection Criteria” tabstrip.

•   Search for these attributes:

                 SURNAME like “Fly*”
                 FIRSTNAME = “Fred”
                 Then click on “Execute”.

• Select date and time (start time) columns, by keeping the “Control” key pressed and clicking in the table headers

• Sort descending by clicking
  the “     ” icon.

• Select the first row (last message with that selection criteria) and execute
  “ ” to see the extracted information from the message payload.

• As you can see, the message contains information from several persons, including Fred.

• Execute “Display“ to see the message details

IDOC Monitor:

• Analyze the IDoc Metadeta
• Obtain an overview of the IDoc message traffic
  • Search IDocs
  • Access payload and control record
  • Monitor acknowledgements

IDOC Monitor: Loading Meta-Data

Integration Process Monitor :

Integration Process Monitor Process Overview Monitor:

• Monitor the processes running on the Business Process Engine
• View messages related to a process type

Message monitor, Channel monitor, Component monitor, New Background Job Monitor for IE:

Message monitor, Channel monitor, Component monitor, New Background Job Monitor for IE :

Improvements in Message Monitor Combined Overall and Idoc Status:

• Idoc adapter status integrated in message monitor
• Overall status as a combination of message status and Idoc outbound status

Improvements in Message Monitor New Message Status Error Labels:

• Unified and simplified status details across PI components
• New error labels combining several error codes

Improvements in Message Monitor Download Large Messages:

Communication Channel ping:

Ping channel to check if it is functioning properly:

• Carries out a series of tests depending on adapter type
• Right now implemented for following adapters:
  • File, JMS, JDBC, RFC, Mail, SOAP
• API support for partner adapters

Component Monitor Enhanced Self-Tests:

Ping channel to check if it is functioning properly:

• Carries out a series of tests depending on adapter type
• Right now implemented for following adapters:
  • File, JMS, JDBC, RFC, Mail, SOAP
• API support for partner adapters

Component Monitor Enhanced Self-Tests:

Enhanced PI Component Self-Tests:

• New Self-Tests for Integration Engine
  Job status
• New Self-Tests for Adapter Engine
  Job status
  Deployment tests
  Registration tests
• New Self-tests for Integration Directory
  Cache status

New Integration Engine Background Job Monitor in NWA:

New background job monitor in NWA for jobs specific to Integration Engine:

• Status and job details of all IE relevant jobs at a glance
• Navigation to job maintenance and job overview

Now I hope that my information will help to understand about PI 7.3 Overview.
Your feedback and improvement ideas are always welcome!