EWA creation in Solman & SDCCN reporting in Managed - scheduling issue

[Former Member]

Hello,

We have Solman 701 SPS27.

The solman creates weekly EWAs for  +- 60 ABAP systems, 30 JAVA systems, including 10 dual stacks.

Recently due to load issues we decided to create the Java EWAs on Tuesday, keeping ABAP on Monday. And this revealed an issue.

This showed a scheduling error, it appears that the EWA in ABAP are scheduled at the same time as the SM:EXEC SERVICES job. So when Solman executes that SM job, it creates a new data session in the managed session for the same time of the following week.

In our solman the SM:EXEC run every day at 4AM. When checking the SDCCN in managed system we see that all Data retreival sessions are scheduled on the Monday @4am.

This obivously makes Solman miss all the EWA creation because, when the job starts, it doesn't have data yet, and therefore skips the EWA creation, since the data session is only starting at the same tim on the Managed systems.

Can anyone confirm this behviour ? Is there a way to control the start data + time of the SDCCN sessions ?

Thanks,

aidan

[richard_pietsch]

Hi Aidan,

check the settings for data collection in SDCCN -> task specific.

Here you can change the time when data is collected for periodic session such as EWA.

The SM:EXEC SERVICES job should run every hour... but it normally does not create any new sessions. It just executes them in case the required download data is available.

Ctreating new sessions is done by the Maintenance Package - it reorganizes old download data as well as the task log, distributes maintenance certificates and checks for new scheduled sessions. If the solman requests data for a new session (independent if periodic or non-periodic) it's recognized by the maintenance package task which plans the new session in SDNNC of managed system.

So, you may also check the time when this task is schedlued in managed systems.

Regards, Richard

[Former Member]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for your input.

I tought the SM:EXEC should run once a day (not every hour), are you sure ? Checking table SMCONFIGJOBS, it tells me it's a daily scheduling.

Concerning the EWA scheduling, if you look into the SM:EXEC job log, you see that it schedules the new EWA sessions:

04.03.2013 04:00:12  ( EW_ALERT ) Session 0010000005930 for 11.03.2013 created (ADJ)

04.03.2013 04:00:13  ( EW_ALERT ) Session 0010000005931 for 11.03.2013 created (AD1)

04.03.2013 04:00:13  ( EW_ALERT ) Session 0010000005932 for 11.03.2013 created (AP1)

04.03.2013 04:00:13  ( EW_ALERT ) Session 0010000005933 for 11.03.2013 created (AT1)

How i understand it works, the managed system then connects to Solman via the SDCCN Maintenance Package job, and this retreives the EWA sessions created by the Solman SM:EXEC job.

Then you get a EWA job in the SDCCN, and this EWA job is scheduled at the exact same time than the SM:EXEC (our case 4AM for the following Monday).

Therefore, if i change the scheduling of the maintenance ppackage jov on the SDCCN of the managed system this won't influence the actual date+time of the EWA data sending job.

Regards,

aidan