Data Description
The ST06 transaction is used to display information from the OS (via the SAPHostAgent) about it’s resources including CPU, RAM, Disk & Network.
Potential Use Cases
This event could be used for the following scenarios:
Measure, monitor and alert on the following hardware resources:
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CPU load, utilization, context switches, queue length
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Memory used & free
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Swap used / free
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Network KB, packets in/out and collisions per second
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Number of CPUs visible to the OS
Splunk Event
The event will look like this in Splunk:
SAP Navigation
List of Selected Runtime Errors
Navigate to this data by using the ST06 t-code and the information displayed when you first enter is what is captured by the ST06 extractor and sent to Splunk in this EVENT_TYPE.
The detail about specific resources like CPU and LAN (network) adaptors are contained in the EVENT_SUBTYPE(s)
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CPU_SINGLE - CPU_SINGLE subtype contains information about specific processes in the operating system, it shows the following information per process.
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LAN_SINGLE - LAN_SINGLE records the performance metrics of each LAN adaptor individually.
