Activity Reports and Server Load

Hello
I'd like to know if working with Activity Reports can influence the portal performance ?
Thanks
Adi

Hi,
You can the activity report in portal follow the following path.
System Administration -> Monitoring -> Activity Report.
Here you will see the Most active users,most visited pages and iview etc...
Try This,
Regards,
Ganesh

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Hi,
Does anyone out there know if SAP has or plans in the near future to deliver Portal Activity Reporting content via SAP Business Warehouse?
I would have thought BW would have been the ideal solution to enable some "out of the box" Portal Content in terms of extracting the data from the tables used for the Portal Activity reports, and then extracting them to BW for slicing/dicing & Presentation.
The current standard Portal Activity reporting does not supply what we need. We don't want to spend time and money developing this ourselves if SAP has plans to deliver it in the near future.
Any news please?
Cheers, Phil G.

Hi,
Check this blog which tells about the future of Activity Reporting..
The Final Word (Hopefully) on the Portal Activity Report
John

Portal Activity Report - Aggregator System Load

Hey Everyone,
What is everyone's impression of the Portal Activity Report? Is it helpful? Do we really have anyother options to get valid reports on usuage? Also, what type of load does the Aggregator really put on its server?
Thanks

Hi Craig
Gives good stats around the Users Logged on (or is it really sessions!) as well as PCD contents that are accessed by end users. So for example if you wanted to know which particular iViews arent being used much by end users you could revisit them and look at changing them or removing them.
You could by looking at the users logged in try and come up with which region the users logged in from or the business unit and then try and address the scenario of why a certain business unit does have many users using the Portal.
Now to the more technical aspect:
Out of the box you dont need to do much to get it going, check out: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/58/728ea01cf64fff996b827f2a06f9b1/frameset.htm
This will give you the details to get it running. Upto SP12 you didnt have the option of putting the password in the aggregator service so a user had to intervene to start the service. However, SP13 onwards this has been reintroduced such that you can schedule it as a Windows task and it will run every day!
Also out of the box you will create iViews based upon Portal Activity Report iView. However there is a downside - it does not allow end users to change the reporting period. This is controlled at an iView property level. But to get around it you could use the Web Service exposed to create your own version which allows for a dynamic date range as well as get the userids of the end users who logged in (this is stored in the DB tables but not exposed by the standard report). Web Service details at: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/42/ba25f8b0731d69e10000000a1553f6/content.htm
Also look at NW Developer Guide and Consuming a Web Service for examples on how to use this web service...
Also it integrated with Solution Manager Diagnostics! So can be quite handy...especially for the big bosses to look at some figures
Hope this helps...
Ankit
PS - Feel free to use the Points system in SDN. Quite a neat tool

App.server load balancing for SAP System with 1 PS

Hi,
In SAP CPS 7.0 (Build M26.12) I have a SAP system with Central Instance + 10 App.servers, but all instances are managed by 1 ProcessServer.
After activating the "App.server load balancing" setting in SAP system definition the application servers are becoming visible in CPS with their load factors (number of BGD wp's on app.servers) and load numbers (number of active jobs on app.servers).
This is so far fine, but the additional functionality is not working as I would expect, I have issues with 2 functionalities:
1. Based on documentation after activating also the XAL connection the CPS should submit the job on app.server with best performance based on XAL monitoring data filling the TARGET_SERVER parameter.
This functionality is not working for me at all
2. A useful functionality after activating the "App.server load balancing" setting is that the ProcessServer is going to "Overloaded" status when all BGD wp's of SAP system are occupied, thus restricting submitting new jobs during overload situation. But I had an issue also with this functionality, after SAP system recovery from overload situation, the CPS still remained in Overload status (so no new jobs were submitted).
As a workaround I had increased the treshold values for loads on all app.servers for this SAP system, what was fine for several days, but after a while I believe this was a reason of unexpected performance issues in CPS, therefore I have deactivated the 'App.server load balancing" setting at all for this ProcessServer.
I would appreciate your feedbacks with this functionality.
Thanks and Regards,
Ernest Liczki

Hi Preetish,
This connect string option is to loadbalance RFC connections. These are balanced upon login, once you are connected to a particular application server (AS) you stay on that server until you reconnect.
Since CPS uses multiple RFC connections, this will result in the connections being distributed over the available AS resources which is fine as long as they are generally evenly loaded. If you have certain AS hosts that are continuosly more loaded than the rest, then you probably don't want the CPS RFC connections to end up on these servers.
The original question is about loadbalancing of batch jobs over the available AS resources, and this is done independent of the RFC connection load balancing. Even if all CPS RFC connections are pinned to the DB/CI host, you can still loadbalance jobs over the available SAP AS hosts, either by using SAPs builtin balancing, or the CPS algorithm by activating the checkbox as indicated in the first entry in this thread.
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Regards,
Anton.
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ASA and vpn load balancing

Hi,
I am configuring 2 ASA5540 for internet trafic inside to outside ,
outside to inside (web,smtp) but also vpn load balancing for client to site , site to site and webvpn.
In the doc I can configure them for internet trafic as Active/Standby or Active/active.
for vpn : I can use vpn load balancing
But no information if I want to use the active/passif and vpn load balancing together.
Any thoughts on which way to go? what is the best thing to do ?
Regards

Hi,
I think that you cannot use an Active/Active configuration for VPN connections as it is stated on Cisco's documentation: "Note: VPN failover is not supported on units that run in multiple context mode as VPN is not supported in multiple context. VPN failover is available only for Active/Standby Failover configurations in single context configurations" available at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6120/products_configuration_example09186a0080834058.shtml
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What is meant portal activity report

HI Gurus,
What is the need of portal activity report.
and how to create it.
Thanks in Advance,
Dharani

Hi Dharani,
See http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/58/728ea01cf64fff996b827f2a06f9b1/frameset.htm for details.
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What is meant by Portal Activity Report

HI Gurus,
What is the need of portal activity report.
and how to create it.
Thanks in Advance,
Dharani

Hi Dharani,
The portal activity report feature enables portal administrators to gather and
present information about portal activity, including information about the users who logged on to the portal and about the content that was viewed.
To start the Portal Activity report tool.follow these steps:
Browse to System Administration.
--->Select System Configuration & Browse to Service Configuration.
--->In Service Configuration go to Applications.
--->In Applications select the folder com.sap.portal.activityreport.core . Inside that browse to Services.
--->select ActivityReport and set the activate property to true.
--->then, Restart the system
In the PCD create a iview from the template Portal Activity Report iView.
Set the type of report and the reporting period.
Add the roles and pages whose report is to be recorded.
Hope this helps you.
Thanks,
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SCCM 2012 deploy windows 7: how to manage network/server load?

Hi,
Hypotetically, if you would deploy Windows 7 to hundreds of pc’s at once, how could you manage that, regarding organizing the deploy, regarding network/server load? F.e. you deploy to a collection which has 500 pc’s, users can select when
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*Can you limit in SCCM 2012 bandwith usage?
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J.
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On a 100MB LAN with DP's hosted in a datacenter (not on subnet) we get to about 75 machines building at once before we see TFTP timeouts on PXE booting due to load on the local network. I would get your build as quick as possible and then do them in increasing
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Build and capture to get a WIM file with most apps and updates in it.
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When I try and do this in our already built website I get an error:
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With the inner exception saying:
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This same piece of code works perfectly if I build a new website, however when I try and impliment this into our existing code base I get the error shown above. Also the samples I've used all use .NET 3.5 and the website is in 2.0. I'm not sure if that is a factor or not but that is also another piece of information that could be useful.
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Chris McMahan
Edited by: Arithal on Aug 4, 2009 8:36 PM

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How to display an USERID on "Portal Activity Report - Pages and iViews"

HI,All.
I have a question.
It is as follows.
A purpose：
iView of EP is used and called for contents of the WEB-AP server of various (Tomcat(Java)).
The acquisition of "EP login user ID" is difficult from the log of each WEB-AP server.
It wants to acquire information on "Which iView which EP login user how many times executed?" by using EP, and analysis/to use it.
A present specification：
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though "Page and iView of portal activity report" of EP was verified to achieve the above-mentioned purpose.
It is impossible to analyze it, that is, "Which user ID used iView?".
A question：
In "Page and iView of portal activity report"
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Environment：
EP6.0　SP18
OS:WindowsServer2003 EE sp1 rc2
CPU:Xeon3.2GHz x2
MEMORY:4GB
HDD:36GB*2
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Please award point if helpful.

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I have installed the correct runtimes as I have another application running on the same server, and that isn't having the same issues. Perhaps the reportPath is different but I am not sure.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

Glad that it worked.
The cause is like a niddle in a haystack...:. I did remember seeing something like this and have a KB created for it but it is not available on SCN yet.
1245654 - A Crystal Reports.NET web application deployed using the Visual Studio 'Publish' option, throws "Load Report Failed" error.
Here is the solution from KB. (Works for VS 2010 too)
Compile the web application in Visual Studio.
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In Publish Web Site window, set the target location.
Check the Allow this precompiled site to be updatable checkbox (by default it is unchecked).
Check the Use fixed naming and single page assemblies checkbox (by default it is unchecked).
Click OK to proceed ahead and publish the web application.
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Thanks.

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Activity Report download is saved without extension and unreadable

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The Portal Activity Report iView has a button which enables the user to download the report to his PC.
The problem is that when the user clicks on that button and saves the file it is being saved by this default name: com.sap.portal.activityreport.frontend.DownloadableActivityReport
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Roy

Hi Roy,
> if it wasn't supported there
> or you would still consider it as a bug?
The feature in general of course was supported, but what I cannot say is if it was a known issue that it didn't work correctly. As I dont't use the ActivityReport, I also have no experience if it didn't work at some time and maybe now is working.
The wrong filename I don't expect to be corrected in the meanwhile, as said, that's a problem in some places. So at least for this you could open an OSS message. And maybe combine this with the problematic column issue.
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