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Applies to:
SAP Job Progress Monitor 1.0 mobile application together with SAP Solution Manager SP10 or
higher and any SMSE-certified job scheduler

Summary
The SAP Job Progress Monitor mobile app facilitates the monitoring of your business processes and the
progress of your job chains in real time anywhere and anytime. It allows business process owners to monitor
job chains and view job details right from their device. The document describes all the steps necessary to
setup a Job Progress Monitor.
Author: Martin Lauer
Company: SAP AG
Created on: 18 March 2014

Author Bio
Martin Lauer is a passionate and distinguished developer. He works on innovative solutions in the area of
Job Scheduling Management. Most recently he worked on the SAP Job Progress Monitor mobile application.
Before this he worked in runtime and metadata team of SAP NetWeaver Gateway. He also worked on
several applications that belong to SAP Solution Manager for example Maintenance Optimizer, Upgrade
Dependency Analyzer, Issue Management and Change Request Management.

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Table of Contents
Prerequisites ................................................................................................................................................... 3
Schedule Background Jobs for Data Collection ............................................................................................. 3
Job Progress Monitor Configuration ............................................................................................................... 5
Creation of Monitoring Groups and Allocation of Users and JPM Monitors ................................................... 8
How to access to Group Configuration from the Job Management Work Center ......................................................... 9

Self Monitoring .............................................................................................................................................. 10

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SAP Job Progress Monitor

You want to monitor the status and progress of batch processing centrally and in real-time and for critical
jobs you need to know, for a running job when it will finish. SAP Job Progress Monitor mobile application has
the following features:

Ensure business continuity for critical jobs and job chains by providing real time information
Group multiple job chains together and monitor overall group progress and the current activity
distribution (percentage of active, scheduled, completed, and canceled jobs); drill down to job details
Job Chain status information as well as runtimes and estimated and actual end times of job chains
can be accessed by mobile applications anywhere and anytime
Snapshots of job chain progress can be send by e-mail

Prerequisites
SAP recommends the implementation of SAP Note1932546 - SAP Job Progress Monitor - Advanced
Corrections.
System requirements:

SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP 10 or higher

SMSE-certified Job Scheduler like SAP CPS by Redwood
SUP 2.2 (Optional)
Afaria 6.6 (Optional)
iPhone/iPad (iOS 6.0 and higher);
Android Phone and tablet (4.0 and higher)

Schedule Background Jobs for Data Collection

This activity has to be executed once to schedule the data preparation, collection and processing jobs.
Open the Job Management Work Center and select Administration. Select Schedule/Monitor data processing
jobs in the Job Progress Monitor Configuration section.

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Figure 1 Administration view of Job Management Work Center.

The application the schedule and monitor the job of the Job Progress Monitor infrastructure will be started.
Just click onto Schedule once to schedule all required jobs.
To check the successful scheduling of the jobs and to monitor the execution of the jobs select any (active)
job in the configuration table and check the content of the Job Status table below.

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Figure 2 Application to schedule and monitor the JPM data processing jobs.

Job Progress Monitor Configuration

To configure a new Job Progress Monitor open the Job Management Work Center and select Administration.
Select Define a new Progress Monitor for an external Job Chain in the Job Progress Monitor Configuration
section.

The application to define a new Progress Monitor will be started.

First enter the connection parameters, thats destination and isolation group, to the external SMSE job
scheduler.
Then use the search help to search for the job chain for which the Job Progress Monitor should be defined.
After the job chain data has been loaded into the application enter a name for the Job Progress Monitor and
mark the steps and/or jobs that are part of the monitor. Make sure that your configuration contains a start

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element, which must be the element with the lowest order number, and an end element, which must be the
element with the highest order number.
It is possible to select the steps of a job chain which can be used to monitor a set of parallel jobs as a single
and aggregated element.

Figure 3 Configuration of a new Job Progress Monitor. It is possible to use the steps of an external job definition which is useful
to monitor a set of parallel jobs as a whole.

Target values can be specified for the Job Progress Monitor itself or any element of the monitor. Target
values can be specified for the runtime and/or the end time of the selected part of the Job Chain. The
planned start time can be entered for your information only.

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Figure 4 Configuration of the target values for a Job Progress Monitor (Element).

Finally activate the Job Progress Monitor configuration by selecting Activate Monitoring.

Figure 5 New JPM configuration: Activation of a Job Progress Monitor followed by the navigation to the Monitoring Group
application.

To make the data accessible to users assign the Job Progress Monitor to a Monitoring Group and to
navigate to this application select Assign to Group.

Optional: Calculation of average runtime and contribution to total runtime.

Select Import and the Structure and Runtime to import the job chain structure together with runtime data for
several job chain instances.

Figure 6 How to call the activity to calculate the average runtime and the runtime contribution.

After a while the application will update the JPM configuration data with average runtime in seconds and
runtime contribution in percent for each element of the job chain.

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Figure 7 Result of the average runtime and runtime contribution calculation.

How to change the configuration of a Job Progress Monitor

To change the configuration of a Job Progress Monitor open the Job Management Work Center and select
Administration. Select Edit an existing Progress Monitor for an external Job Chain in the Job Progress
Monitor Configuration section.

Figure 8 Access the application to change Job Progress Monitors from the Job Management Work Center.

Creation of Monitoring Groups and Allocation of Users and JPM Monitors

Select Create to create a new Monitoring Group. Just enter a name and optionally a description.
It is important to assign SAP users to a group because otherwise the data will not be accessible externally.
Only assigned SAP users can access the Group and the assigned Job Progress Monitors.

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Figure 9 Monitoring Group Configuration: Creation of a new group and allocation fo SAP users.

Now assign the Job Progress Monitors to the group. For this select a Group and the select Add on the Group
Content table.

Figure 10 Monitoring Group Configuration: How to assign a Job Progress Monitor to a Monitoring Group.

How to access to Group Configuration from the Job Management Work Center
To configure a new Job Progress Monitor open the Job Management Work Center and select Administration.
Select Configure Job Progress Monitor Groups in the Job Progress Monitor Configuration section.

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Figure 11 Job Progress Monitor Group configuration in the Job Management Work Center.

Self Monitoring
The self-monitoring application collects all exceptions that have been reported by the Job Progress
Monitoring infrastructure.
In order to access the self-monitoring application open the Job Management Work Center and select
Administration. In section Job Progress Monitor select Self-Monitoring.

Figure 12 Navigation to the Self-Monitoring

Check the content of the message log for errors and try to resolve these errors.

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Figure 13 Message log of the Self-Monitoring. The job lock error means that a job has not cleared its locking entry in table
AGSPB_D_JOB_LOCK..

Thats it. You have successfully created a new Job Progress Monitor. Now start the mobile application, select
the monitoring group and enjoy monitoring the progress of your background jobs in real-time.

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Related Content
Job Scheduling Management
Administrator's Guide SAP Job Progress Monitor
SAP Job Progress Monitor Mobile App
SAP Job Progress Monitor App in Apple's App Store
SAP Job Progress Monitor App in Google Play Store
SMSE Interface 1.0 - Connecting SAP Solution Manager 7.x to the External Job Management Systems
SAP CPS by Redwood - Solution Manager integration setup
SAP CPS by Redwood

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