DB14 : Daily SAP Basis job log to be monitored

SAP provides an excellent DBA tools (for Oracle DB) which is called BRTOOLS. BRTOOLS is a compilation tools range from BRBACKUP (tools to maintain backup database), BRARCHIVE (tools to maintain archive files backup), BRCONNECT (tools to maintain checking database, updating database statistics, etc), BRRESTORE (tools to maintain database restoration), and some specific and useful tool.

When SAP Basis running one or more tools from BRTOOLS, it will create a job log to provide SAP Basis some information about BRTOOLS activities whether it succeed, succeed with warning, or failed. We can access those log from SAP R/3 through SAPGUI.

SAP provides DB14 tcode for SAP Basis to access those database logs. Through this article, I’ll show you how to monitored your database logs.

First, type DB14 on your SAPGUI screen. You’ll have this screen :

To check your BRCONNECT logs, just click BRCONNECT button.

You’ll see some logs. The one which coloured grey is BRCONNECT job that had run well or successfully. The other one which coloured yellow is BRCONNECT job that had run but ended with warning. If your BRCONNECT job hadn’t run well then it will show you red coloured log. To see what’s really happened, justdouble click one of i logs.

For more detailed information, click Detail Log button.

For BRBACKUP job log, you can click BRBACKUP button.

For more information about BRBACKUP activities, double click on one of its log.

To get more detailed information, click on Detail Log button.

For BRARCHIVE log activities, click on BRARCHIVE button.

For detailed information, just double click on one of its lines and you’ll get this screen.

For detailed information, you have to click Detail Log button.

SAP through Going Live Check event will check this log to make sure that your SAP production system is ready to go live. They will mention and warn you if something wrong with your backup configuration. So, make sure that you’ll have this log check every day to make your system has high availability and minimize your SAP production downtime.