Netweaver Nous

What Happens when a work process has status PRIV

esperanta — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:40:49 +0000

http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:FWEPvRwqiIYJ:sapbasis-security.blogspot.com/2008/04/monitoring-system-work-processes-sm50.html+process+stopped+reason+priv+sap+basis&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=uk
Useful link on processes.

It says

If the reason columns display Priv, it means that a work process has been reserved for a private use in a particular ABAP transaction requiring a large paging storage. This mechanism prevents the rolling in and out of the user contexts and the ABAP paging.

Useful topic on this http://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-basis/re-re-in-sm50-ststus-stopped-reason-priv-110313

which suggests a memory management problem

http://www.sapsecurityonline.com/sap_security_interview_questions/sap_basis_performance_analysis.htm
Shows a diagram of whole process

What is a Management Class

esperanta — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:52:54 +0000

Here is a picture of the Management Class, with a link back to the originating site.

What is UNIX Hardening

esperanta — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:14:41 +0000

This is a really useful link

Content Manager

esperanta — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:12:27 +0000

Useful Information on Content Manager:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-cm?rid=/webcontent/uuid/50b3b5da-5947-2a10-6183-eb4a764df0b7

It says

With the Content Management capabilities of SAP NetWeaver, you can put unstructured information (i.e. documents) together with structured information (for example application data) into a business context and provide target-group and role-specific access. These capabilities are provided by:

Transport Stuff

esperanta — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:09:52 +0000

Here are some web pages which give info about transports:

Transport Guide: http://www.sappoint.com/PHPWebUI/Documents/SAP%20Transport%20Guide.pdf

This gives some general BASIS info including transports

Logical Spool Servers

esperanta — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:52:51 +0000

Was having trouble understanding the use of “Logical Spool Servers”. Here was a really useful post:

http://joeybear23.blogspot.com/2008/03/sap-logical-spool-servers.html

A somewhat new functionality that is available for SAP printing is the concept of the Logical Spool Server. It goes a little like this: if one of your main spool server kicks the bucket, it is a very painful process to move all of the print devices to a different server in order to facilitate printing until that spool server becomes available again. The Logical Spool Server is a logical destination inside SAP that devices can be directed to which in turn directs spool requests to actual Spool Servers, including a primary and alternative server. If the primary spool server crashes, the spooling will be switched over to the alternative server. If the alternative server is also down, pushing the spooling duties onto yet another server is handled by simply modifying the Logical Spool Server rather than modifying each individual printing device. Also, the Logical Spool Server can be configured for load balancing so that print jobs are handled by either the primary or alternative server depending on the workload of either.

To set up a Logical Spool Server, run transaction SPAD.
Under the Devices/Servers tab, select the Spool Servers button.
Go into Change mode by selecting the “pencil” icon from the toolbar.
Choose the Spool Server -> Create option, name the server and select the Logical Server box and the Load Balancing box.
Enter your preferred mapping server and alternate server and you’re done.
Now all you have to do is assign your print devices to this Logical Spool Server.
Give yourself a pat on the back.

First Post

esperanta — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:18:42 +0000

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