Configuring centralized monitoring in SOLMAN 71.

Today faced issues as i try to configure SOLMAN centralized system monitoring.

I am getting no CCMSPING ...headache!!! important transactions im using include RZ21, RZ20 , LMDB ,checking SAPOSCOL ,at OS level and settings in the SOLMAN_WORKCENTER

Ongoing work stay tuned!......

SAP SRM slowness in creating a shopping cart "Error 500 connection timed out"

What a start to the week! so there was planned user testing scheduled for this week on the new SRM SAP systems specifically MDM catalog and shopping cart but as it gets in IT things aint working when they should be !!!

After numerous checks I focused on checking the backend system. Important note is that most issues faced on SAP portal systems are actually resolved in the backend system if the portal configuration is done right. So check your RFC connections between the portal and backend systems.

Also in the portal Netweaver Admin link , enable caching. After fixing some RFC's and enabling the web page caching in the portal the process became lightening fast!

SAP ROUTER not connecting to SAP OSS! :-( worry not :-)

So this week the SAP Router RFC connection to the SAP OSS just stopped working. Simple tests in transaction SM59 were failing with error code -25 connection refused.

Having just finished a datacenter move and cutover a week ago the initial troubleshooting that took 3 days! was anything from network connection changes, firewall problems to even thinking SAP have blocked the SAP router details.

Further digging on the server hosting the SAP Router ( Windows Server 2012 R2) led to discovering that the SAP router license had expired!

I will give credit where it is due as the solution and step by step procedure to renew your SAP Router license can be found on

https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/Basis/How+to+renew+the+SAP+Router+license

Created by Gagan Deep Kaushal, last modified by Tejasav.Kalra on May 04, 2012

Fantastic post guys!!

Delayed sending of emails from a SAP system

You can configure the SAP system to send and receive emails using transaction SCOT.

I will not go into the details of how to configure inbound and outbound emails in SCOT but rather will address one common problem ...emails taking 1HR to be sent and to reach the recipient!!! 

I doubt if by any measure 1HR can be considered an OK duration. I have seen numerous blogs and discussions with so many suggestions on how to change the frequency of the SAP job responsible for triggering the sending of emails but the solution that actually works is one!

Check the system time zone and application server time zone ( the host machine time zone at OS level) in any transaction goto SYSTEM tab then STATUS . Ensure the time is the same for the two.

If not confirm the time zone of the host machine and to change time zone setting in SAP use transaction STZAC ...just make sure the SAP application and host machine time zones are the same! thats the trick! :-)