Monitoring work processes
System May 9th, 2008
In this article we are going to cover Work processes in more detail.
Work processes are unix tasks that can be identified by using following unix command.
ps -ef|grep dw
There are 5 type of processes and 4 types of status :
Type's
| DIA | Dialog | Interactive dialogs |
| BTC | Batch | Background tasks |
| UPD | Update | Database updates (critical) |
| UP2 | UPDATE | Database updates(non-critical) |
| ENQ | Enqueue | locking/releasing SAP objects |
| SPO | Spools | Data formatting and printer spools |
Status
| Running | executing a request |
| Waiting | idle |
| Hold | a WP can only serve a single user. If there are many work processes on "hold" then the system performance will suffer |
| Ended | aborted |
Transactions SM50 gives a process overview for a particular application* server. If you want view the processes of another server go to SM51 and choose the server u want.
And if u would like to see all the processes running accros your systems (inlcuding all application servers) use the SM66 Global Work process overview.
* SAP uses the generic term application server to define a computer that receives connections from SAP clients, but the actual connections are managed by SAP dialog servers.
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