Background jobs monitoring is one of the core responsibilities of the SAP Basis administrator. Basically, background jobs are scheduled to achieve specific tasks in the SAP system.
There is more to simply monitoring the success or other wise of a background job. You should add value to the monitoring of your background in the SAP system. Depending on what you want to monitor/analyze, the SAP system provides the functionalities to simplify the exercise. Some information that you might want to investigate include…
Similar jobs: Transaction SM37 can also help you identify jobs that are similar or probably duplicated. The job name column can help in identifying such jobs. For these kinds of jobs, you might have to carry out housekeeping activities such as deleting the redundant jobs.
Long running job – If you are interested in investigating long running jobs, you can do that via transaction SM37. The “Duration (sec.)” column of the report allows you to analyze this requirement properly. For these kinds of jobs, it will be nice to investigate the root cause via performance detection transactions such as STAD, ST03N and ST12.
Regularly cancelled jobs – Transaction SM37 is also a veritable tool for investigating jobs that are cancelled regularly. This status check can be seen in the “status” column of the report. It will be nice for you to review why they are always cancelled.
Obsolete jobs: Some jobs might not have been modified in a long time and as such they have become obsolete. You can see the jobs that falls to this category via transaction SE16 by specifying the table name, TBTCO and reviewing the “last job change” field accordingly. For the jobs in this category, you might consider modifying the jobs or deleting them where possible.
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