Forgot to shut off st05 or st01 trace - how to detect

[former_member197700]

We have administrators turn on an st05 trace or an st01 trace and then forget to turn it off.  We had it on for 4 days and the system performance gets worse.

What is a good way to check if the trace is on? Or perhaps a way to shut if off with a batch job every night at midnight?  We have 100+ SAP systems and it is not feasible to logon to each system each day to check.

[alwina_enns]

Hello Clifton,

in CCMS there is this monitor structure to create alerts in case a trace is switched on:

RZ20 --> SAP CCMS Monitor Templates
               --> Entire System
                    --> <SID> --> Application Server
                           --> <instance>
                                --> R3BasisSystem
                                      --> TraceSwitches
                            R3DeveloperTrace
                            R3SystemTrace

If a trace is activated in ST05 or ST01, then an alert is created in R3SystemTrace.

Regards,
Alwina

[Former Member]

Hi Alwina Enns

Is there any report that we could execute to get all the status of all the app servers? I mean is a kind of difficult check each instance if we have more than 20 application servers... I could request to ABAP team create a little report but I need to know the tables involved. Do you know the table name?

[Laszlo_B]

Hello Clifton,

I know I won't answer your initial question, but a way to handle the system performance is not to allow a lot of trace data / trace files to be written.

These profile parameters adjust ST01 and ST05 trace sizes:

• rstr/max_filesize_MB
• rstr/max_files

Best regards,

Laszlo

[Former Member]

Hi,

Do you use Solution Manager for  technical monitoring? It can monitor system messages and generate alerts for specific message numbers (you can find detail description of messages in table TSL1D) For example:

IC   6	Trace entry of USER &A created for USER &B and UR
IC   7	Trace entry of USER &A created for URL &B
IC   8	Trace entry of USER &A deleted for USER &B and UR
IC   9	Trace entry of USER &A deleted for URL &B
R1   K	Trace activated for user &A
R1   L	Trace deactivated for user &A
R1   M	Trace transferred from remote client
R1   W	Trace File(s) &A of User &B Reset
R6   J	Trace flags for VM &a have been changed

Good Luck!