AS JAVA

SAP NetWeaver Administrator 

Use

SAP NetWeaver Administrator is a Web-based tool for administration and monitoring that
offers a single entry point to configure, administer, and monitor your SAP NetWeaver
system, its components, and the applications running on top of it.

Prerequisites

The Application Server Java (AS Java) is running.

Features

The SAP NetWeaver Administrator unifies the most important administration, monitoring,
and troubleshooting tools. Some of the main SAP NetWeaver Administrator features are:

●      A single, central tool for administration, troubleshooting, and problem analysis of your
SAP NetWeaver system. You can perform administration tasks, such as starting and stopping
instances, checking and modifying configuration settings, analyzing logs and traces, ensuring
the error-free functioning of all system components by continuous system monitoring.

●      An easy-to-use, task-oriented interface.

●      A Web-based tool. Therefore, you do not need to have a local installation to manage
remote systems.

●      The interface allows seamless navigation to other SAP NetWeaver administration tools
(for example, User Management Engine).

●      The SAP NetWeaver Administrator represents the crossover from various expert tools to
an integrated, simple, and clear solution. The SAP NetWeaver Administrator also completes
the integration of the data sources for monitoring.

Activities

Starting the SAP NetWeaver Administrator

To start the SAP NetWeaver Administrator, enter the following data in a Web browser:
http://<host>:<port>/nwa, where:

●      <host> is the host where the AS Java is installed.

●      <port> is the HTTP port of the ICM. It consists of 5<Java_instance_number>00.

For example, if the instance number of the Java instance is 60, the HTTP port is 56000.

Defining the SAP NetWeaver Administrator Security Roles

For authorization, the SAP NetWeaver Administrator uses the User Management Engine
(UME) and the Java Management Extension™ (JMX) security features. The following
security roles are defined from an authorization point of view:

●      NWA_READONLY

●      NWA_SUPERADMIN

The roles include the permissions that enable/disable certain elements in the UI, as well as
permissions to access the data in the managed system. The read-only role does not allow
making any changes in the managed system such as starting/stopping, changing the
configuration and so on, whereas the other role allows full control.

Users and roles are mapped by using the Identity Management functions of the SAP
NetWeaver Administrator.

More information: Identity Management of the Application Server Java

Using the SAP NetWeaver Administrator

The management functions included in the SAP NetWeaver Administrator are grouped into
work centers according to the type of functionality that they provide. The work centers are
sub-divided into work sets grouping related administration options. The number of work sets
and their content is dynamic and changes according to the installation scenario.

To access the relevant function, choose <work center>  <work set>  <function>, or access
the relevant quick link.

To display the list with the available SAP NetWeaver Administrator quick links, in your Web
browser enter: http://<host>:<port>/nwa/quicklinks, where:

●      <host> is the host where the AS Java is installed.

●      <port> is the HTTP port of the ICM.

The following work centers are available:

●      Operation Management

●      Configuration Management

●      Availability and Performance Management

●      Problem Management

 ●      SOA Management

SAP Java monitoring Check list

This article answers the following queries :

 Ø  How to perform daily monitoring of Java stack in SAP ?

Ø  What are the daily checks for Java applications of SAP ?

Ø  How to access management console in SAP ?

Ø  How to perform session monitoring in JAVA stack  of SAP ?

Ø  How to view various java reports in JAVA stack of SAP?

Ø  What are the various java reports available in Java stack of SAP  and what is
their significance?

Ø  How to view log and traces in java stack of SAP?

Ø  Where to view default trace in java stack of SAP?

Ø  What is the use of  management console in SAP ?

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 JAVA Monitoring

Contents :

1.       Checking the java stack/portal accessibility

2.       Actioning, in case portal not accessible

3.       User load analysis

4.       Java Reports – Navigation and usability

5.       Memory consumption and Threads report

6.       Session Monitoring

7.       Logs and Traces (Default trace, Server0 log etc)

8.       Accessing Management Console

9.       Checking System availability using Management Console(SDM, Msg server,

Enqueue server, Java nodes etc)

10.   Check various logs(work directory logs, jcontrol, default trace, application log
etc)

Java Monitoring :

Place the link of the respective java application in the browser and check
whether the java application is opening:

For example:
 http://baakaprd.company.com:50000/irj/portal

If java is up and running, a screen similar to below will open.

If the page did not open,

i)  Check  whether there are network issues

ii) Check tablespaces occupancy levels at Oslevel and make sure sufficient 
    space is there and  if any tablespace is  100% full, action the same
iii) Check the default trace for any critical errors
iv) Check application log to determine any memory related issues
v)  Check server node status at oslevel or through management console and 
     action and bring up the java again.

To estimate the user load and to check the number of users logged onto the java
portal :

Navigate to User Administration ->  Activity Reports

i)   Check “Number of users in the last 3 hours” report

   ii)   To figure out most active users, check the 10Most active users report
Java Reports :

Java Memory Consumption Report and Threads Reports :

These reports includes a chart of the memory usage of a cluster node and a
chart related to the system and application thread pool.

To check this report login to nwa of the respective java stack :

Then  navigate to Monitoring -> Java System Reports :

 Here following reports can be taken by selecting the respective report from the
drop down provided:

  Capacity Planning : This report includes a chart representing the requests sent to
J2EE Engine, a chart for the number of http and security sessions, and a chart of
the communication between J2EE nodes
  Resource Consumption : This report includes a chart of the memory usage of a
cluster node, and a chart related to the system and application thread pool

  Error Statistics:  This report includes a chart representing a collection of counters

useful for investigating problems. There are also charts that give an overview of
timeouts and the size of log files

  Application Activities : This report includes a chart that represents the history of
the activities of deployed applications

        Slowest requests in detail

        Slowest requests
        Slowest components
        User activities
        Current activities
        Monitor Browser
However from monitoring perspective, resource consumption report is most
important to analyse the memory consumption.

Select resource consumption from the dropdown to view the memory statistics
as below:
Click on Go to Detailed Chart link of the respective report to view detailed chart
as below
Click Hint on charts link to analyse the report better.

Select the respective Instance, Cluster node and Time period from the provided
dropdown boxes to view the reports belonging to the same
Table view for Threads report:
There are 2 types of views: Chart view and Table view. You can change the view
by selecting the respective radio button.

Please find below table view for Memory Consumption report

Session Monitoring:

To monitor sessions, navigate to Monitoring -> Session Monitoring

Java Administration and Configuration Tools

SAP provides three major tools for configuring and administering the SAP NW AS Java: the
configuration tool (config tool), Visual Administrator, and NetWeaver Administrator tool
(NWA). Table 15-1 provides a comparison of the three tools along with the prerequisites and
intended purpose of each.