Monitoring & Troubleshooting

What is transaction SM02 used for?

What is the difference in scope between transaction ST01 and transaction STAUTHTRACE?

Which transactions are used to monitor SAP work processes, and what scope does each cover?

What are the possible status values of an application server instance in SM51?

In SM50, what is the difference between a work process with status Waiting and one with status Running?

What is the difference between cancelling a work process "with core" versus "without core"?

What is the role of the message server in an SAP system?

Which transactions upload and download files between your PC and the SAP application server?

Which transaction displays operating-system and hardware metrics (CPU, memory, disk, swap) for an SAP instance, and what gathers its data?

Which transaction shows the work processes of the instance you are logged on to?

Which components do the developer trace files dev_disp, dev_ms, and dev_rd belong to?

What do the SM50 "On Hold" reason codes CPIC, PRIV, and SLEEP indicate?

What is AUTOABAP?

How do you prevent the short-dump table SNAP from growing indefinitely?

What runtime information does a kernel snapshot capture?

In ST22, what does the distribution of ABAP runtime-error dumps suggest about a problem?

Besides transaction SMMS, which OS-level programs can monitor the message server, and what does each do?

How do you take an application server out of service for maintenance without abruptly killing it?

What is the difference between transactions SM04 and AL08 for monitoring logged-on users?

What is the role of the SAP gateway process?

Why should an update (UPD) work process never be cancelled manually?

In transaction SM51, what information does each row show about an application server instance?

Which command-line tool lets you display and manage work processes when you can no longer log on to an instance because all work processes are occupied?

Which profile parameter limits how many requests the SAP dispatcher queue can hold?

What are the five work process types shown in SM50?

How do you view work processes across all instances of the system rather than just the local one?

How can an administrator run an operating-system command from inside the SAP GUI when they have no direct OS access?

In transaction SM21 (the system log), what does each message colour indicate?

How many developer trace files does each SAP work process keep?

Which transaction monitors the status of the message server?

If you change a gateway parameter dynamically in SMGW, how do you make the change survive a system restart?

What do developer trace levels 0, 1, 2, and 3 each mean in an SAP system?

How is the local system log file named and located on an application server?

What causes the ABAP runtime to generate a short dump, and where is it stored?