Jobs monitoring

Objectives

Controlling the job duration times and monitoring the effectiveness of the services, gives insight about the status of the processes. Considering this, it is necessary to have a simple but effective tool to control this data.

The goal of this guide is to provide the user with understanding on how to obtain information about the duration of job times and job duration status, considering previous durations. This guide will explain the process of obtaining and controlling the information in a step-by-step fashion.

Monitoring job times statistics

Adding the job

To add and control the job times statistics the IA022 transaction was created. To add a job, you must check if it is running in batch on the IA005 transaction.

Global → Installation → Administration → Jobs [IA005]

Choose the proper time frame and click the List button to list the jobs (see the picture above).

Select the job you want to monitor and click on the View button (see the picture above).

Retrieve the Object and Method data (see the picture above). Go back and click on the Parameters button.

Retrieve the site parameter data and the search parameter data (see the picture above).

Next, go to the IA022 transaction:

Global → Installation → Administration → Jobs Statistics Monitor [IA022]

Click on the Add button.

Fill the fields with the data that you have retrieved. Select the proper temporal period. Check the box if you wish to display the job time status when listing jobs and services (explained in the next chapter) and fill the percentage boxes with the values with which you will monitor the job duration status (see the picture above).

In the example above, when listing jobs (or services), a green light will be displayed if the job duration is below the job duration average plus 5% of the job duration average. If the job as a priority of 50 or lower yellow light will be displayed when the job duration exceeds the job duration average plus 5% of the job duration average. If the job as a priority higher than 50 a yellow light will be displayed if the job duration is between the job duration average plus 5% of that job duration average and below the job duration average plus 10% of that job duration average. A red light will be displayed in cases where the job priority is higher than 50 and and the job duration exceeds the job duration average plus 10% of that job duration.

Click on the Confirm Data button.

Generating and monitoring the job data

To generate the job duration data go to the IA023 transaction:

Global → Installation → Administration → Statistics of Jobs [IA023]

Fill the box with the number of records that you want to generate and click the Generate button. In the example above, a 1000 records will be generated for each job that you are monitoring.

Now you can see the statistics of your job in the IA022 transaction:

Global → Installation → Administration → Jobs Statistics Monitor [IA022]

You can choose to monitor the jobs by Object, by Method, by Object and Method, or, if you want to monitor all jobs that you have added, just click on the List button (see the picture above). A view will appear with your configuration. Check the box(es) for the chosen configuration to view its job duration details and click the Next button (see the picture below).

Now you have access to the job duration statistics (the picture below represents part of the table displaying the job statistics data).

Controlling job times

Jobs

If you would like to check if your jobs are within a normal time range of execution, you can access that information in the IA005 transaction:

Global → Installation → Administration → Jobs [IA005]

Fill in the search criteria and click the List button (see the picture above). The following examples will provide you with insight on what you are expected to see:

In the example above, a green light is displayed. The job has a priority of 50 and the job duration is lower than the defined green light duration limit, which the user defined previously in the IA022 transaction (see sub chapter 3.1 for more information on the job duration limits).

In the example above, a yellow light is displayed. The job has a priority of 50 and the job duration is higher than the yellow light duration limit. The same behavior would be expected if the job had a priority higher than 50 and if the job duration was between the time range defined for the green light limit and the yellow light limit (see sub chapter 3.1).

In the example above a red light is displayed. The job has a priority higher than 50 and the job duration exceeded the job duration average plus the percentage of that job duration average for the yellow light (see sub chapter 3.1).

Services

If you would like to check if the jobs on your services list are within a normal time range of execution, you can access that information in the IA004 transaction:

Global → Installation → Administration → Services [IA004]

Choose a service to list it or leave the textbox blank to list all services. Click the List button (see the picture above). The following examples will provide you with insight on what you are expected to see:

Leaving the textbox blank, all services were listed (see the picture above). The service which has jobs in progress displays a green light and its duration. The conditions for the different light colors have been described earlier and will not be discussed further. If you check the box for this service and click the Next Operations button, all jobs of this service are displayed; you moved to the IA005 transaction (see the picture below).

The other cases (for yellow and red lights) follow the same rules and conditions described previously.