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The Dashboard tab provides a comprehensive overview of all SAP systems in a selected application. The Dashboard tab serves as the starting point for your indepth in-depth analysis since it displays a preview of the information that is available in some of the other tabs and enables you to view relevant information on the selected application without having to open each of the tabs. This simplifies and shortens the time required to view information. The Dashboard tab also enables you to view summarized data, such as the activities of all monitored SAP systems, and to compare systems in terms of Response Time and Availability. See “About About Precise for SAP tabs” on page 12, “About tabs, About the Activity tab” on page 35, “About tab, About the Availability tab” on page 45tab, and “About About the Jobs tab” on page 49tab.

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How the Dashboard tab is structured

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This area summarizes the general behavior of the selected system or systems. Clicking on the hyperlink for specific data items launches, in context, the related tab from which the data was derived, enabling you to quickly carry out a more indepth in-depth investigation.

Gaining an overview of system availability

The Overview tab displays the general behavior of the selected system or systems, within the specified time frame. This allows you to view, at a glance, the status of your system’s system's availability and workload.

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Overview areaDescription
Availability

Displays the SAP system’s system's availability, over the selected time period. System availability is compared to the Availability SLA threshold.

The Availability label functions as a hyperlink, and enables you to launch the Availability tab, in context. This enables you to continue to investigate an Availability problem or to continue to analyze Availability details.

Work load

Displays the workload imposed on the SAP system, over the selected time period. The workload is broken down into different types of activities that consume application servers resources, as follows:

  • RFC. Remote function calls
  • Program. SAP programs that are not associated with Tcodes
  • Update. Update SAP programs
  • Dialog. Dialog transactions (identified by Tcodes)

The Work Load label functions as a hyperlink, and enables you to launch the Activity tab, in context. This enables you to focus on Activities in the monitored site.

Applications

Displays the average response times of SAP module’s module's transactions. By default this table is sorted by the Response Time (Avg) column, meaning that transactions that have poor response times will be displayed first.

The Applications label functions as a hyperlink, and enables you to launch the Activity tab, in context, with the same list of applications. This enables you to focus on Activities that are related to the application listed in the table by analyzing the response time, in more depth, or to drill down to a specific application.

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TransactionDescription
SLA compliance

Shows an overtime graph that displays the number of transactions executed during the selected time period. Each transaction’s transaction's response time is compared to its SLA (Service Level Agreement) and an indication of its SLA status is displayed, as follows: No SLA, SLA OK, SLA Near-Breach, SLA Breach.

The SLA Compliance label functions as a hyperlink, and enables you to launch the Activity tab, in context. This enables you to focus on a transaction’s level of service.

Response time (Avg)

Shows an overtime graph that displays the average response time for transactions, during the selected time period. Response time is broken down into Client time, Queue time Application time and DB time.

The Response Time (Avg) label functions as a hyperlink, and enables you to launch the Activity tab, in context. This enables you to focus on a transaction’s transaction's response time.

Transactions

Summarizes the information displayed in the SLA Compliance and Response Times graphs and displays the transaction names and the number of times they were executed during the selected time period.

  • Transaction. Displays the name of the transaction.
  • Response Time (Avg). Displays the average transaction’s response time, in seconds.
  • Backend Response Time (Avg). Displays the average response time (in seconds) of all SAP activities monitored by the SAP system, not including client time.
  • Transactions. Displays the total number of times the transaction was executed during the specified time period.
  • SLA Compliance. Displays a bar indicating the number of transactions executed during the selected time period. Sections of the bar are highlighted as follows, depending upon the transaction’s transaction's level of SLA compliance:
    • Green. Transaction did not exceed its SLA compliance level.
    • Yellow. Transaction has exceeded its SLA warning threshold.
    • Red. Transaction has exceeded its SLA critical threshold.

The information displayed in the Instance Details area, for SLA compliance data, is normalized.

The Transactions label functions as a hyperlink, and enables you to launch the Activity tab, in context, with the same list of transactions. This enables you to focus on a specific transaction’s transaction's response time.

Viewing RFC service and performance data

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RFC service and performance dataDescription
SLA compliance

Shows an overtime graph that displays the number of RFCs executed during the selected time period. Each execution time (call time) is compared to its SLA (Service Level Agreement) and an indication of its SLA status is displayed, as follows: No SLA, SLA OK, SLA Near-Breach, SLA Breach.

The SLA Compliance label functions as a hyperlink, and enables you to launch the Activity tab, in context. This enables you to perform further analysis on a specific RFC’s RFC's service level.

Call time (Avg)

Shows an overtime graph that displays the average call time for RFC functions, during the selected time period. Call time is broken down into average Exe time and Wait time.

The Call Time (Avg) label functions as a hyperlink, and enables you to launch the Activity tab, in context. This enables you to perform further analysis on a specific RFC’s RFC's call time.

RFC functions

Summarizes the information displayed in the SLA Compliance and Call Times graphs and displays the RFC function names and the number of times they were executed during the selected time period.

  • RFC Function. Displays the name of the function.
  • Call Time (Avg). Displays the average call time, in seconds.
  • Calls. Displays the total number of times the function was executed during the specified time period.
  • SLA Compliance—displays Compliance. Displays a bar indicating the number of transactions executed during the selected time period.
    Sections of the bar are highlighted as follows, depending upon the transactions level of SLA compliance:
    • Green. Transaction did not exceed its SLA compliance level.
    • Yellow. Transaction has exceeded its SLA warning threshold.
    • Red. Transaction has exceeded its SLA critical threshold.

The information displayed in the Instance Details area, for SLA compliance data, is normalized.

The RFC Functions label functions as a a hyperlink, and enables you to launch the Activity tab, in context, with the same list of functions. This enables you to focus on specific RFCs and carry out further analysis on their call times.

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When viewing the Dashboard tab there is always one system in focus (in the Main area, on the left). The selected system’s system's information is displayed in the Instance Details area on the right, in a number of different information tabs.

The Overview tab enables you to locate time range when the system’ system availability breached its SLA. The Availability bars for this time unit will then be below the SLA and highlighted in red. To view more about the availability of that system click on the graph’s label and launch the Availability tab. The Work Load graph displays the time consumption of the system’s system's application servers divided by the different work types, over the specified time period. It is possible to determine what type of activities consume most of the system’s system's resources and identify any abnormal behavior. Viewing the Work Load and Availability graphs together enable you to determine if there is any correlation between your system’s availability and work load.

The Applications table summarizes the data available on the applications used by the selected system, including each application’s application's response time and SLA compliance.

If you want to further investigate the system’s system's applications to discover which transactions were executed or which users are using the application, click on the Application label. This launches the Activity tab which provides more detailed information on the system’s applications and provides you with additional investigative tools.

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