Now I’ll show you how to monitor SAP System logs for some warning or error logs. One of the tasks of SAP Basis Administrator is to maintain the health of the system and to keep the system performance good and the SAP application runs well. You must regularly check the system log for early detection and take action if necessary. This task is part of Daily Monitoring in SAP System Management (SAP CCMS).
You check the SAP system logs from transaction SM21.
1. Click Continue if it’s you first time running SM21.
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2. Choose All Remote Systems logs if you have more than one application servers.
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3. Look for any error messages, and do detailed analysis by double clicking it. You have to do this monitoring daily. Because if too many errors happen it can affect your daily SAP Application Server performance.
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4. Now you can see further information from it. Actually the checking process can’t run stand alone, you have to check as well error log from System Dump (ST22) or system Process (SM50/SM51)
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