Focused Insights: Tactical Dashboard Indicators (Part II)

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Tactical Dashboard

The objective of this article is to describe the meaning of the Indicators available in the Tactical Dashboard of Focused Insights.

Transaction Performance

Indicator	System Type	Value	Trend
Transactions Response Time	ABAP	Number of Transaction's response time exceeding target thresholds according to the selected periods: Period: Last Hour Yesterday Last 7 Days	Trend of the worst transaction Comparison between the configured values and the past values for last 8 weeks or  last 12 months.

Maintenance

Indicator	System Type	Value	Trend
Product end of maintenance date	ABAP / Java	Product maintenance end date.	N/A
Software Components version.	ABAP / Java	Difference between the current SP level for each software component installed on the system and the latest available SP level in the products catalog.	N/A
version of OS (Patch level and Kernel).	ABAP / Java	End of support date for Operating System. Age of Kernel in Months.	N/A
Database end of support date	ABAP / Java	Database end of support date.	N/A

Database backup

Indicator	Value	Trend
Backup status	Number of days since last backup exceeds selected thresholds.	N/A

Database growth

Indicator	DB Type	Value	Trend
Current size of Database	DB2 / Oracle / MaxDB	Sum of the size of all data files or Occupied plus Free Memory in the Database for Yesterday,	N/A
Database fill level	DB2 / Oracle / MaxDB	Percentage of space which is consumed within the DB (Occupied Memory / (Occupied + Free Memory ) ) for Yesterday.	N/A
Database Growth	DB2 / Oracle / MaxDB	DB Growth for the selected period and corresponding resolution. Period / Resolution Last 8 weeks / Week Last 12 Months / Month	Comparison between Last Week or Last Month's value and the past value for the last 8 weeks or 12 Months.

Users Load

Indicator	System	Value	Trend
Average number of connected users per hour	ABAP	Average number of connected users per hour for selected period: Period: today yesterday last 7 days	Comparison between last week or last month value  with the past valus for the last 8 weeks or the last 12 months

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.