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Step-by-Step Procedure
This step by step procedure consists of two parts:
1. The first part describes the configuration and the activation of the Activity Data Collector in Enterprise Portal.
2. The second part describes the activation of the Portal Activity Reporting extractors in Solution Manager.
Possible performance impact
The activation of the Activity Data Collector (ADC) might have a performance impact on the
Enterprise Portal. Before activating ADC in the productive Enterprise Portal it has to be tested
in the QA environment.
4.1 Activity Data Collector Configuration and Activation
The Activity Data Collector (ADC) has a preset of configuration properties and is by default deactivated. For the usage
of ADC with the Solution Manager the configuration needs to be adapted and ADC needs to be activated.
1. Logon to the Portal with your administrator user (you need access to System Administration)
2. Navigate to System Administration System Configuration Service Configuration Applications
com.sap.portal.activitydatacollector Services DataCollectionHook
3. Open the DataCollectionHook for configuration
4. Change the properties as described below:
u201CActivate Data Collectionu201D
Defines if the ADC is active or inactive. Change this property from false (default) to true
u201CAdditional Files Formatsu201D
For the usage of ADC with Solution Manager only the main file format is needed. Delete the preset value of
this property.
u201CBase File Nameu201D
This property defines the first part of the ADC data file name. For the usage of ADC with Solution Manager a
specific base file name is required. Otherwise Solution Manager is not able to fetch and clean-up the ADC data
file. Set this property to:
portalActivity
u201CDirectory Nameu201D
This property defines the directory name in which the ADC data files are written. The path is relative to
<system ID>/<instance ID>/j2ee/cluster/server<server #>
For the usage of ADC with Solution Manager a specific directory name is required. Otherwise Solution
Manager is not able to fetch and clean-up the ADC data file. Set this property to:
portalActivityTraces
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u201CFile Encodingu201D
This property defines the file encoding of the ADC data files Set it to:
UTF-8
u201CHour in the day to close all files, in GMTu201D
This property defines the hour in the day when all open ADC data files are closed and ADC starts to write new
files. The value of this property has no impact on the usage of ADC with Solution Manager. You can leave the
default value.
u201CMain File Formatu201D
This property defines the main file format of the ADC data file. For the usage of ADC with Solution Manager a
specific main file format is required. Otherwise Solution Manager is not able to use the ADC data. Set this
property to:
%Orfo.t(d-MM-yyyy kk:mm:ss,UTC)%%Stab%%Orfo.un%%Stab%%Orfo.ut%%Stab%%Orfo.bt%
%Stab%%Orfo.ct%%Stab%%Orfo.in%%Stab%%Orfo.pu%%Stab%%Orfo.cn%%Stab%%Orfo.sid%%Snl%
Property value format
The symbol u201Cu201D in the property value string above just indicates that a line break was added for
better readability. The string in the u201CMain File Formatu201D property value field must not include line
breaks or this symbol.
u201CMax Buffer Size (KB)u201D
This property defines the amount of data stored in memory before it is written to the ADC data file. The
property value needs to be smaller than the u201CMax File Size (KB)u201D property. It can significantly impact the
performance as it is a tradeoff between writing too often to the file and writing to much data in one step to the
file. Set this property to:
128
u201CMax File Size (KB)u201D
This property defines the maximum file size of the main file. When this limit is reached all data files are close
and ADC writes to new files. For the usage of ADC with Solution Manager a suitable u201CMax File Sizeu201D property is
important. For every hour at least one ADC data file should to be written. Less than one data file per hour
results in a delayed data fetch of Solution Manager. As a good starting point set this property to:
384
5. Finally save all changes by pressing the Save button.
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6. Next right click on com.sap.portal.activitydatacollector and select Administrate from the context menu.
7. To finally activate the Activity Data Collector the com.sap.portal.activitydatacollector application needs be
restarted. Therefore press the Restart button.
Data file housekeeping
Once the Activity Data Collector (ADC) is activated on all J2EE server nodes of the Enterprise
Portal data files are written. ADC currently does not provide an automatic housekeeping. The
housekeeping is done by the SMD agents when they are triggered by the extractor running on
the Solution Manager. The SMD agents remove by default all ADC data file older than 24
hours.
To minimize the risk of a disk full situation we recommend implementing a customer specific
fallback housekeeping (e.g. clean-up scripts running on all hosts).
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