SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse: Administration and Monitoring

This book offers a complete understanding of all administration tasks that arise in a live SAP NetWeaver BW system and provides guidance on ways to solve any problems that might occur. Coverage includes all topics relevant to administration and monitoring of SAP NetWeaver BW, including basic principles, tasks, analysis, and troubleshooting.

Basic Principles
Understand the basic principles and technology components necessary for administering and monitoring SAP NetWeaver BW.

Platform
Learn about SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP and SAP NetWeaver AS Java, which have long proven themselves as high-performance platforms for ABAP-based and J2EE-based applications and represent a complete infrastructure for SAP NetWeaver BW.

Database Management
Explore the fundamentals of SAP NetWeaver BW database management, with a special emphasis on indices, which are of high significance both for data loading processes and for reporting.

System Connections and Access
Master a basic knowledge of the technologies around system connections, including IDocs, which ensure the required quality for administration and monitoring of loading processes.

Monitoring and Analysis Tools
Benefit from an overview of the monitoring and analysis tools that are most important for a BW administrator.

Highlights:

• Indices
• DB Storage Parameters for BW Objects
• Buffering of InfoObject Tables
• Web Services, SOAP, etc.
• DataStore Object
• InfoCubes
• Authorizations in SAP NetWeaver BW
• Role Maintenance in Transaction PFCG
• Nearline Storage (NLS)
• Java Support Packages

Table of Contents

PART I Basic Principles 23
Chapter 1 SAP Implementation Concept 25
Chapter 2 Overview of AS ABAP and AS Java 31
Chapter 3 Database Management 75
Chapter 4 System Connections and Access 103
Chapter 5 Monitoring and Analysis Tools 123
Chapter 6 Basic Principles of Processes and Objects 185

PART II SAP NetWeaver BW Administration 205
Chapter 7 User Administration and Authorization Management 207
Chapter 8 Archiving and Data Maintenance 249
Chapter 9 Maintenance 291
Chapter 10 Technical Content and BI Administration Cockpit 333
Chapter 11 Process Chains 361
Chapter 12 Administration of SAP NetWeaver BW Processes in Detail 377
Chapter 13 Reporting Monitoring and Administration 443

PART III Management and Support 529
Chapter 14 SAP Support 531
Chapter 15 Organizing SAP NetWeaver BW Administration Teams 565

A Transactions, Reports, and Function Modules 575
B Glossary 581
C Bibliography 589
D The Authors 591