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ADM100 Lesson: Analysis Transactions
Figure 9: Common Administration Transactions
You can use transaction SM51 to display the instances of your SAP
system. From there, it is possible, among other things, to go to the user
list (transaction SM04) or the work process overview (transaction SM50)
for a selected instance.
You can use transactions SM04 and AL08 to obtain an overview of the
users logged on to the system. Note that only those users that are logged
on to the instance from which you called this transaction are displayed
in transaction SM04. You can use transaction AL08 to obtain an overview
of “all” users logged on to the system. Unlike SM04, transaction AL08
provides only display functions.
TransactionSM50providesanoverviewoftheworkprocessesconfigured
for an instance. There is also a “global” equivalent to this transaction
(SM66), with which you can display all of the work processes for the entire
SAP system. Like transaction SM50, transaction SM66 provides other
functions in addition to purely display functions.
You can use transaction SM37 to obtain an overview of the background
jobs in your SAP system.
You can manage lock entries in the lock table of the enqueue work process
using transaction SM12.
Use transaction SM21 to analyze the system log.
If you want to send all users in your SAP system a message, you can use
transaction SM02 to send a system message. It is also possible to restrict
the recipients to users of a certain client, or users that are logged on to a
particular instance. A system message appears for users when they next
perform an action.
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