Focused Insights: Tactical Dashboard Indicators (Part I)
Tactical Dashboard
Tactical Dashboard comes with a predefined KPIs catalog. You just need to select the managed landscape in scope together with the KPIs you want to monitor. You’ll then have to configure the relevant time periods that you want to monitor (last hour, last 24 hours, yesterday, last week…), your thresholds to calculate the color ratings as well as other parameters depending on the type of KPI.
As a main view, the Tactical shows the current status of the managed landscape for the selected periods. It is fast and simple to check if something is going wrong for one of the KPIs selected and to identify problematic systems.
From the main view, the dashboard offers, for each type of KPI, drill down capability to detailed views. Detail views provide best practice measures and advanced charts with various filters and selectors, to monitor closely the trend of the KPI and pin point the root causes when an issue occurs in the managed landscape.
The objective of this blog is to describe the meaning of the Indicators available in the Tactical Dashboard:
Category Performance
| Indicator | System | Value | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
|
“Average Response time per Dialog Step” |
ABAP |
Average for selected period and selected source: Source:
Period:
|
Comparison between yesterday’s average and last week’s average |
| “WebDynpro/Servlet Response Time” | JAVA |
Average for selected period: yesterday or last hour |
Comparison between yesterday’s average and last week’s average |
Category Availability
| Indicator | System | Value | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
|
System Availability |
ABAP / Java |
Percentage of system availability for the selected period Period:
|
N/A |
Category Hardware Resources
| Indicator | System | Value | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU Utilization for ALL Virtual Hosts of the SAP System as described in the LMDB. | ABAP / JAVA |
Percentage of utilisation for the selected period Period:
|
N/A |
| Memory Utilization ALL Virtual Hosts of the SAP System as described in the LMDB. | ABAP / JAVA |
Percentage of utilisation for the selected period Period:
|
N/A |
Category Transaction Performance
| Indicator | System | Value | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Transaction Performance for Core Transactions Number of Transactions is configurable Each select transaction has different thresholds. |
ABAP |
Average Response Time for the selected period. Period:
|
Trend of worst Transaction Comparison of the AVG Response time with the selected period. Period:
|
Focused Insights (http://support.sap.com/focused-insights)
Focused solutions for SAP Solution Manager, is the extension concept for SAP Solution Manager, with the idea of helping our customers meet their particular innovation needs on an individual basis, without the need for homegrown software or partner solutions.
The goal of Focused Insights is to build and distribute powerful customer-specific dashboards in minutes using state-of-the-art user experience.
The content delivered with Focused Insights has been designed to deliver, in real time, the most relevant and valuable information to the right people. While it provides full transparency of information stored inside SAP Solution Manager, it also takes into account the best practices and experience gained during numerous custom projects, offering a set of prepackaged dashboards tailored to your needs.
SAP Focused Insights offers specialized dashboards for experts as well as management or non-technical users. Whether they address the CIO or an expert, dashboards remain consistent among each other since they rely on the same data sources mixed up and presented in different granularities or aggregation levels
Focused Insights comes with a rich content. It fully exploits the huge amount of data stored inside SAP Solution Manager. Metrics produced by the activation of a scenario, whether it is IT or business related, become immediately available to the prepackaged dashboards. Raw metrics can be grouped or combined to produce advanced metrics and high level KPIs.
Hi Xavier I have a question, about Tactical Dashboard, do you know if the information of security scenario is customizable and where? I mean we have standard values for SAP_ALL and SAP_DEV Users, but what about if I need to rate another profile?
Regards
Hi,
For the security category, you need setup the configuration validation scenario: Documentation is available in the SAP help portal.
Rgds,
Xavier.