Operating the Workload Monitor

The workload monitor is a one-screen transaction that has as few additional menus as possible. This makes operation significantly easier and more intuitive.

Integration

The workload monitor transaction ST03N replaced the old ST03 transaction.

Features

Activities

The individual screen elements of the workload monitor mean the following:

User Mode

After starting the workload monitor, you should first choose a user mode. Through this, you gain access to precisely the functions and time periods that are relevant for the selected role.

Functions

In the Functions subscreen, choose a symbol by double clicking it:

Function	Meaning
Workload	Here you can define the instance and the time period that you want to define, in accordance with the user mode.
Detailed analysis	These functions read the workload directly from the statistics files of the individual instances.
Business transaction analysis	Here, you can perform a very precise analysis of individual transaction down to the level of individual steps.
Last minutes’ load	Here you can analyze the workload data that has not yet been written to the MONI performance database.
Load history and distribution Load history Instance Comparison Users per Instance	Here (unlike in the workload monitor), you cannot display the workload for a particular instance and a particular time period, instead you can compare the workload for instances or time periods. A comparison of the most important data allows you to directly compare the instances.
Collector & Perf. Database	Here you can determine, among other things, which values the statistics collector determines, and how often, and for how long they should be retained in the performance database.

Analysis Views

An analysis view displays a particular aspect of the workload. In the analysis views subscreen, choose the view that you want to analyze by double clicking it.

Only those Analysis Views are shown that:

• Are active in the selected user mode
• Exist for the data

Output Area

The output area uses an ALV Grid Control, with which you can greatly tailor the selected view to your requirements. For most load parameters, the workload monitor displays more data fields than are required for your analysis. You therefore have a considerable amount of help in the output area to obtain the data that is relevant for you:

• The data for most analysis views is grouped in tab pages by various topic areas
• To obtain an overview of which data fields exist for an analysis view, choose the All Data tab page.

• Using the
standard functions of the ALV Grid Control, you can:

• Show and hide columns
• Sort lines by the contents of a column
• Set and delete filters
• Perform summations
• Export tables in a file type of your choice
• Display tables as graphics
• Save sort orders, filters, and selected columns as your layout

Edit Views

Choose one of the following pushbuttons in the Edit Views screen area:

Pushbutton	Meaning
Save View	Saves the current view as your initial screen for the workload monitor (see also Saving User-Specific Views).
Previous View or Next View	Moves one view forward or backward in the view history
Full Screen: Show/Hide Tree	Shows or hides the Functions and Analysis Views sections in the left-hand part of the screen.