Initialization Jobs

The initialization jobs are listed in the following sections. The job descriptions and figures provide a high-level overview of the SAS IT Resource Management interface and how to work with the jobs. 0010 Step 1 Select SAP Servers is the only initialization job to select the required SAP libraries to extract the performance data from the SAP systems. The rest of the other initialization jobs are required to run in both the indirect as well as the direct extraction method.

This job lists the servers that are monitored. The job appends the attributes of the source SAP servers to the Admin SAP Server Libraries table. The job uses the Libref Collector transformation, which extracts the details of all the SAP libraries registered in the SAS Metadata Server. You need to apply a filter if you want to restrict some libraries, otherwise, you can leave the job as it is shipped. (In the previous release, this was a customization job where you needed to drag and drop the relevant libraries for data extraction.)

The output of the Libref Collector transformation is the following data set, which contains the LIBNAME and the options used in separate columns.

To customize this job, provide the libref values of the relevant SAP servers to the macro variable in Preprocglobal.sas program, which is used in this job.

This job takes the output table Admin.SAP Server Libraries of the previous job as input. The job then reads destinations from the selected SAP servers and creates an output table named Admin LibDests_Suggestion Librefs and Dests Suggestion, with destinations for indirect extraction. By default, performance data is extracted directly from a single SAP system. If you need indirect extraction via RFC-connected SAP systems, then additional data has to be supplied for the extraction. Indirect extraction is not supported for the statistic tables specific to the SAP Business Warehouse.

This job has an internal job named 0020_10 Step 2 Internal Job-Extract and Add Dests. This job collects the attributes of all the libraries and saves the attributes in a table. This internal job takes the tables RFCDES and SAPWLSERV as input. These SAP tables are assigned by the import process to an SAP server through the SAP sample library mapping. The job reads these tables from the SAP server that is used in job 0010A Step 1 Select single SAP Server. The tables RFCDES and SAPWLSERV serve rather as templates than real tables.

The internal job is called in a loop over input table Admin.SAP Server Libraries. The loop provides the values for the parameters of the job. It has three input tables and one output table.

This job lists the SAP systems connected via RFC to the selected SAP hub server. There are two tasks that you need to perform:

This job uses the table min. LibDests_Suggestion as input. SAS table Admin.SAP Server libraries + Destinations is the output table. This table is basically the Admin.SAP Server Libraries table extended by destinations.

Run the saved job and verify that the output table contains the right records. The value 'NONE' in column RFC Destination (RFCDEST) implies direct extraction from the SAP server with SAP System ID specified in column SAPSYS. Other values denote the SAP servers connected to the hub server via RFC.

The SAS IT Resource Management solution does not require an output table from this job. Therefore, this job is optional for both direct and indirect extraction methods.

This job extracts objects from SAP servers and maps them to SAP programs, provided you extract performance data via the hub server. The job uses the table Admin.SAP_Server_dests as input and generates the table RAWDATA.PROGRAM_MAP as output.