ABAP Number ranges

ABAP Number ranges

Purpose

Number ranges of objects are used to define a range of possible serial numbers for SAP documents.
To run short on numbers will cause problems in document generation and must be monitored.

Configuration hints

Define the objects to monitor in the surveillance table.
Each object set in the table will be collected and checked.
If the remaining slots of any of its range are too low, an alarm will be sent.
A filter can be set on the sub object to target a specific object or exclude some others.
Each range of a target object will be checked and might be triggering an alarm.
Use the threshold field to set maximum usage, you can use multi threshold syntax

Fetch all objects

If enabled, the monitor will collect all available objects. This can be used if you want to monitor a wide range of objects and use regular expressions to match them.
Note that this will collect thousands of objects and it is better if that can be avoided

Important note: This monitor might have problems to compute available space for complex ranges composed by prefixes, alpha numeric and special characters. Make sure to test the monitoring of such object carefully.

Configuration

Fetch all objects	If enabled, fetches all available objects

Surveillance table

Parameter	Description
Active	Use this field to activate or deactivate a line of configuration.
Client	A filter to match only a subset of clients.
Object	The object to monitor. Use the exact object name or a regex if “Fetch all objects” is enabled
Sub Object	A filter on the sub object name. Use plain text or regex
Range	A filter on the range
Max used space (%)	The maximum used ratio of the range in percent. You can use multi-threshold (G2W:90 W2M:95) or absolute value
Severity	The severity of the generated alarm
Auto clear	If checked, the alarm will be cleared as soon as the alarm conditions are not fulfilled anymore.
Alarm tag	This field allows to add custom text within the alarm message. %MSG% variable will contain the actual generated message and can be used such as: “my_prefix %MSG% my_suffix”. By default, tag will be used as prefix.
Alarm	If checked, this line of surveillance will be used for alarm generation.
Metric	If checked, this line of surveillance will be used for QOS generation.
Report	If checked, this line of surveillance will used for showing threshold and severity in the daily report

Examples

Active	Client	Object	Sub object	Range	Max used space	Severity	Auto clear	Alarm tag	Alarm	Metric	Report
true	800	RV_BELEG	*	*	G2W:90 W2M:95	MAJOR	true		true	false	true

Effect : Collects number ranges for object RV_BELEG and sends a WARNING alarm if over 90% or a MAJOR alarm if over 95%. Sends also a metric for every single range.

Generated metrics

metricId	metricUnit	metricTarget	metricDescription
ABAP_NUMBER_RANGE_PERCENTAGE_USED	%	[CLIENT][OBJECT][RANGE]

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