Doubt in Alert job

[former_member186851]

Dear SCN Users,

What are the exact usage of below parameters used in alert jobs ?Even though I have some understanding still I am confused a bit, Please provide any SAP documentation/Link.

1.Aggergate alerts.

2.Alert-to-Mail Limit.

[mate_moricz · Accepted solution]

Hi Raghu,

Check SAP Note 1970993 about the aggregation.

Also check SAP Note 1884625 and 1884605 on a fixes about the AlertsToMailLimit. You should also check the link( Configuring a Local Consumer on AS Java - Administering Process Integration (PI) - SAP Library) provided by Harish.

Regards,
Mate

[former_member186851 · Accepted solution]

Thanks Both,

And what is the Retention Period,Its the number of days the alert will be active?

[mate_moricz · Accepted solution]

Hi Raghu,

The retention period for the task means for how long the job logs are persisted in the database. It's specified in days: 0 doesn't keep job logs, -1 keeps the job logs and of course you can specify other positive values(integer).

Regards,
Mate

[former_member186851 · Accepted solution]

Ok Mate,

But the Job will be running based on the scheduling right?

I mean till how long I configure it.

[former_member182412 · Accepted solution]

Hi Raghu,

You can schedule the job for every 5 minutes like below.

Regards,

Praveen.

[former_member186851 · Accepted solution]

yes Praveen,Even recurring does the same right?

I have doubt in that retention period,its like how many days the JOB data will stored I believe.

[former_member182412 · Accepted solution]

Hi Raghu,

Yes retention period means how long schedule jobs log keep in the database, below job will clean the

database based on retention period you mention in the task.

Regards,

Praveen.

[former_member186851 · Accepted solution]

thanks Praveen,

And last question recurring or Cron both are meant for schedulded running right If am not wrong.

[former_member182412 · Accepted solution]

Hi Raghu,

• If you have a start time and end time for your job then you can use Recurring option.
• If you don't have end time and you want to run every 5 minutes and running the job infinitely then use the option Cron.

And small correction about the above screen shot which i mentioned for Cron job, replace 5 with */5 to run the job every 5 minutes.

Regards,

Praveen.

[former_member186851 · Accepted solution]

Thanks Praveen,

If am not wrong Aggregate alerts collects the similar category alerts and suppress alerts suppresses the alerts after the first one

And alerts to mail limit is still a bit confusing.

[Harish]

Hi Raghu,

Please find the details for AlertTomailLimit

In the AlertToMailLimit field, enter the number of individual message details that would be included in the e-mail notification. The default value is 20.

Help page - Configuring a Local Consumer on AS Java - Administering Process Integration (PI) - SAP Library