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A shortdump occurs when a program crashes in SAP. The reasons can be several:

• Internal SAP system error
• Program called with bad/wrong parameters
• Connection killed during program execution
• Wrong/missing authorizations

• When a shortdump associated to the Redpeaks user is discovered in the system, it is because of a remote function call which ended badly.
• To resolve the problem, you need to identify what Function Module or what Report was executed.
• For that, you need to correlate timestamps of the shortdump with what was executed at this exact same moment in Redpeaks, to discover which monitor is the responsible.
• The best way to do that is by checking the logs.
• Only one monitor at a time is executed on a system. If a shortdump occurred at 2h 42m 25s, check which monitor was executed in last just before this time.
• Usually, you should see an exception in the logs giving more info about the reason.
• In many cases, the monitor can also simply time out and get killed, forcing the connection to close.

• Authorization issue: you will need to update the authorization profile of the Redpeaks user.
• Wrong parameter: check the monitor configuration to see if it can be fixed there.
• Bug: Sometimes the way Redpeaks calls Function Module is not appropriate on some versions of SAP, and need to be fixed by a patch.

• See monitor timeouts

• If you could not fix the issue, you can raise a ticket to get some support
• In order to ease the investigation and get a faster answer, you can follow this procedure:
  • Activate DEBUG logs at T0
  • Wait for the dump to happen again (You can let it run of a day or so)
  • Make a screenshot of the ST22 showing the dumps occurred since T0, with visible timestamps
  • Download worker logs matching the short dump timestamp
  • Attach logs and screenshot to the ticket
• This should be enough information to identify the monitor causing the short dump and give some guidance.