In this article I will try to present the main differencies between 3 SAP technologies which are used in SAP integration projects on the SAP backend systems (like ERP, SCM, etc.) for handling interface related errors:
a) SXMB_MONI - standard monitor for proxy messages
b) FEH/ECH - Forward error handling, Error and Conflict Handler - standard SAP tool for enterprise service error solving
c) AIF - Application Interface Framework - additional tool from SAP for interface monitoring
A similar comparision was already done in this article - POV: FEH or AIF or Custom Error Handling - but since then there have been some significant changes in some of those technologies so I believe it's worth to do the comparision once more.

FEH/ECH | AIF | SXMB_MONI | |||
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Works for outbound asynchronous services | Works for outbound asynchronous services | ||||
Works for inbound synchronous services | Works for inbound synchronous services | ||||
| Works for outbound synchronous services | Works for outbound synchronous services | ||||
| SAP Standard services use ECH | Needs to be customized (no coding required) | SAP Standard services use SXBM_MONI | |||
| Payload editor | Payload editor | Payload editor based on XML | |||
| Manual restarting | Manual restarting | Manual restarting | |||
| Automated error resolution based on error type | Very limited automated restarting | Very limited automated restarting | |||
| Alerting, Notification | Alerting, Notification also based on content of the message | Alerting, Notification | |||
| SXMB_MONI - integration - links | SXMB_MONI - integrated | ||||
| Data search on the basis of message attributes | Data search on the basis of message attributes from indexed tables | ||||
| Usage of tips and hints | Usage of tips and hints | ||||
| Authorization concept with payload attributes usage | |||||
| Framework for implementing error handling - only | Framework for implementing all kinds interfaces (IDOC, WS, etc.) | ||||
| IDOC monitoring in the same tool (look and feel) | |||||
| Own runtime for processing other types of integrations (file, etc.) | |||||
| Simple navigation from error to the field level | |||||
| Value mapping tables are the AIF standard objects | |||||
| Grouping of interface based on defined criteria | |||||
| Message mapping tool for additional mapping | |||||
| Versions of interfaces | |||||
| Customizable application tabs (with own objects) | |||||
| Does not link to the documents | Customized links to documents | Does not link to the documents | |||
| Licence cost - free | Licence cost - Seperate Licence | Licence cost - free |
I hope some of you can use this information to determine what kind of error handling tool do you need in your projects.
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