SAP Job Monitor

Monitoring of SAP Jobs. Shows how many jobs have been aborted or finished in the last <Minutes>. Currently running jobs are also displayed and in case a defined threshold has been reached the long running jobs are displayed in the sensor text. The amount of suspended and released jobs is also measured.

General

Executable	SAP_Job_Monitor.exe
Connection method	RFC
Ports	33$$ 48$$ (SNC) ($$ = Instance number)

Default parameters

Parameter name	Possible values	Default	Description
Host	<ip> | <hostname>	empty	Hostname or IP of the target system. If you use a virtual hostname on your SAP servers, please use also the virtual host to connect.
SAPSID	string (3) | XXX	empty	SID of the SAP system
SAPInstance	number (2) | 00 - 99	empty	Instance number of the SAP system
SAPClient	number (3) | 000 - 999	empty	SAP Client (CLNT/MANDT)
SAPUsername	string	empty	SAP user
SAPPassword	string	empty	Password of the SAP user

Sensor-specific parameters

Parameter name	Possible values	Default	Description
Jobname	<jobname1>,<jobname2>,...	SAP*	Name of the job(s) to be monitored. Use * as wildcard Having prefix ! means the entry should be excluded instead of included. info If only one single job is monitored, an additional channel with the last runtime will appear.
Jobowner	<jobowner1>,<jobowner2>,...	*	Name of the job owner to be monitored. Use * as wildcard Having prefix ! means the entry should be excluded instead of included.
Minutes	number | 1 - 1440 (max. 24h)	60	Count of past minutes to check.
JobMaxRuntime		*	Threshold (in minutes) of the maximum runtime of a job. Once the runtime of a job is longer than the defined threshold, the job name is displayed in the sensor text.

Channels

Channel name	Description	Lookup file
Aborted	Count of aborted jobs
Finished	Count of finished jobs
Running	Count of running jobs (does not depend on <Minutes> parameter)
Suspended	Count of suspended jobs (does not depend on <Minutes> parameter)
Released	Count of released jobs (does not depend on <Minutes> parameter)
Current runtime (optional)	Displays the current runtime of the job if only one jobname is given in the parameter Jobname

Important notes

warning

Please check the channel limits in PRTG if they fit for your alerting.

Changelog

Version	Changes
2024.04	Added new option to exclude job names and / or job owners from the search.
2023.09	Changed description of SAP job name.
2023.03	Added a new option to filter for job owner Long running jobs are now displayed in the sensor text once a defined threshold has been reached Added a new channel for released jobs
2021.12	Due to new restrictions of a used SAP function module the database selection and filtering has been rewritten to support the latest SAP support packages. Jobs which started > 48h ago will no longer be selected to reduce performance issues and traffic between monitoring server and SAP system.
2021.03	The parameter Jobname is no longer ignored when monitoring suspended jobs.
2020.09	The date time parsing error (empty value for end time while Job is running) has been fixed The text "comma separated" in the profiler has been removed since only one entry is possible
1.4.1.1	Bugfix for output error when jobs are running Removed Day parameter. Changed default limits of channels.
1.4.0.2	Bugfix for output error when jobs are running
1.4.0.1	Rebuild for new signature of AddChannel method
1.4.0.0	Build for installer 1.4.0
1.3.6.0	First stable release