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SAP SolMan Technical Monitoring of BOBJ BI 4.0 - Part 1 of 3


A common SAP technology stack for Business Intelligence that we've come across in the field has been SAP Business Warehouse (BW) backend as the ...

Aug 21 | Linh Nguyen

SAP MAI has gone MIA


Getting lost in the DSO, Info packages, Infocubes, and the Aggregation? Yes, SAP Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure (MAI) has made SAP alerts ...

Aug 18 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Basis Automation with SID-Refresh™


UPDATE: As of February 2018, we have superseded this Windows-only version with a Java version for all SAP platforms on Windows/Linux/Unix. It is ...

Aug 12 | Linh Nguyen

What's Up with SAP HANA Multi-tenancy?


UPDATE 9/16/2015: HANA Monitoring Multi-tenancy Environment On June 23, 2015, I attended the SAP HANA Operations Summit at SAP Labs in Palo Alto and ...

Jul 15 | Linh Nguyen

SAP Performance Best Practices for Implementation, Upgrade & Migration


UPDATE: See our recent SAP Performance Testing as a Service announcement. Optimizing SAP performance of the newly implemented, upgraded, or migrated ...

Jun 25 | Linh Nguyen

How to Troubleshoot with Time-Synchronized Performance Intelligence


Users call and escalate about how bad their performance is and the team scrambles to troubleshoot for the root cause, but the subject matter experts ...

Jun 9 | Linh Nguyen

SAP ASE (Sybase) Availability and Performance Monitoring


More and more SAP customers have been migrating their databases to SAP ASE (formerly Sybase), which raised the need to monitor and manage ASE's ...

May 7 | Linh Nguyen

Monitor SAP Performance WITHOUT Solution Manager


We've often heard that "If it sounds too good to be true, then it must not be true!". This conventional wisdom serves us most of the time, but every ...

May 4 | Linh Nguyen

SAP SolMan Monitoring of BOBJ - Part 3 of 3 (Managed System)


In this last part, we will hook up the 2 components of an SAP BOBJ BI 4.0 environment to the SAP Solution Manager, using Managed System configuration ...

Apr 22 | Linh Nguyen

SAP SolMan Monitoring of BOBJ - Part 2 of 3 (Auto-Configure)


Continuing after installing the SAP Diagnostics Agent on the BI 4.0 system, we will use the AC (Auto-Configure) tool to step through the setup of SAP ...

Apr 15 | Linh Nguyen