alerts required, if an interface does not run

[Former Member]

hi,

can SAP PI generate alerts, if a particular interface does not run for some period of time.

Thank You,

Madhav

[baskar_gopalakrishnan2]

The interface flow will happen only if the pi gets trigger from sender system (for example).  Alert is basically  meant for errors during processing. Assume that your sender system does not send the message via PI for 8 hours... How frequent you check and send alert.? What is your real requirement? 

[Former Member]

Hi Baskar,

you are almost there.. if sender system does not send any message for certian amount time.. i need some alerts that needs to be generated from PI end.

is it possible?

[baskar_gopalakrishnan2]

Then there are two ways to handle this.  Create ccbpm and there you might have to use wait step for certain time and if time exceeds generate some sort of error to trigger alert configuration.  otherwise you can handle outside PI too which depends on the sender protocol. For example if the sender system is file then you can use simple java program to wait and watch to poll files for certain time, if not same java program call mail api to send mails to the respective recipients.  So java does polling as well mail sender function. This requires some considerable effort.  I have not faced similar situation.

[Former Member]

we have already done similar way for file based interface, where in Adapter Module generates Email if there are no files for certain amount of time.

as of now, i am looking for generic way to handle any adapter.. just wondering is there any standard way that SAP offers to handle this kind of situation.

Thank You,

Madhav

[baskar_gopalakrishnan2]

AFAIK,  there is no standard way. You have to write some custom adapter module or external scripts to handle this.

[ambrish_mishra]

Hi,

This is possible through a BPM design based on Timeout. PI itself cannot generate alerts if an interface does not run.

Ambrish