SAP NetWeaver Troubleshooting General Process

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I'm relatively new in the SAP Netweaver are and one question that popps up in my mind again and again is: When the monitoring system generates a ticket and the ticket contains some information, how do I know which logs to look into

1) at SAP GUI Level (e.g. System log or some other log?)

2) at Linux OS Level? (and which folder? There are so many logs)?

Is there a structured process to narrow down to the right logs to further touble shoot the problem?

I feel confused between the several logs and how to locate the right log.

Thanks in adance!

Met

[Isaias_SAP · Accepted solution]

Hello Met,

Good starting points are the system log (transaction SM21) and short dumps (tcode ST22).

At SM21, you can see at which app server the issue has occurred (if this was not already known). You can also see the process where the issue was raised (e.g., DP for Dispatcher, DIA 25 for the Dialog Work process 25, and so on).

Then you can open the corresponding dev_ZZZ file and go to near the timestamp seen at SM21 to see what was happening in the process, and possible more details about the issue.

If OS level information is required, usually "/var/log/messages" (since we are talking about Linux) would have something, or there was a crash in a process and a "core" file was created. What is needed from this "core" file is to extract the C-Stack from it (see this wiki page: https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/x/LQPFGQ).

Regards,

Isaías