Monitoring and Tracing


Monitoring

The status of the adapter and of the channels which are using the adapter can be monitored using the Communication Channel Monitoring of PI. Use the SAP NetWeaver PI Runtime Workbench Component Monitoring to start the channel monitoring.

Use the SAP NetWeaver PI Runtime Workbench Message Monitoring to monitor all messages processed by the adapter.

Logging and Tracing

The adapter supports the standard tracing and logging of SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java. Start the SAP NetWeaver Administrator and choose Logs and Traces.

A log file contains generally intelligible information for system administrators. The information is sorted by categories and is used for system monitoring. If an error occurs you can determine the component which has caused the error using the location. The PI Adapter for EntireX uses the category /Applications/ExchangeInfrastructure/Adapter/SoftwareAG/ EntireX. The logging information can be accessed with the Log Viewer component of the SAP NetWeaver Administrator.

A trace file contains detailed information for developers. It is sorted by location, which means by software packages in the Java environment. The PI Adapter for EntireX uses the location com.softwareag.xiadapter.ra.entirex.*. Communication from the host to the adapter is only traced if the severity is set to the DEBUG level as defined in SAP PI. The trace information can be accessed with the Log Viewer component of the SAP NetWeaver Administrator.