The SAP Application Interface Framework enables the implementation and monitoring of interfaces across various interface technologies, including:
- Proxy XI Runtime
- AIF Runtime XML
- Files
- ALE/IDoc
- Web Service
- Enterprise Service
- BDoc
Additionally, the monitoring and error handling capabilities of SAP Application Interface Framework can be extended to support other technologies, such as CIF, qRFC, bgRFC, MWB, or any custom-specific technology, through custom code integration without the need for modification of the monitoring and error handling functionalities.
Interface Monitor Display and Details
The Interface Monitor provides an overview of the different interfaces that a user is responsible for. It's available with an SAP GUI and a web-based user interface.
The Interface Monitor can be opened via transaction /AIF/IFMON.
The Interface Monitor consists of two main parts:
- Message overview: Provides a personalized overview of the interfaces the user is responsible for. Displays the overall status (Okay, Caution, Errors, and Undefined) of an interface. Also, the number of messages for each status (Warnings, Application Errors, Successfully Processed, Technical Error, and In Process) is displayed. As well as the number of messages for each status, the sum of all messages is displayed. If the interface uses key fields for recipient determination, the key fields can also be displayed.
- Calendar: With the calendar, you can restrict the data range for the information shown in the message overview. This can be done by selecting dates in the calendar control. Days where messages are found in the system are highlighted as follows depending on the highest error status:
- Red: There are error message for this day (successful, canceled and warning messages may also have occurred).
- Green: There are only successful or canceled messages.
- Yellow: There are warning messages (successful or canceled messages may also have occurred; there are no error messages).
Additional settings include:
- If the calendar is not displayed, select button without date restriction.
- Possible Activities:
- Restrict date range: You can restrict the selected messages by using with date restriction and by specifying a date range or by marking a date range in the calendar.
- Set timer: You can specify the seconds before the content of the Interface Monitor is refreshed automatically.
- Message summary: You can access the Message Summary from the Interface Monitor; select a namespace or an interface, and choose Message Summary.
- Error handling: You can navigate directly to Monitoring and Error Handling by selecting one of the status icons.
Message Summary
The message summary provides an overview of how often a certain log message was written to the application log and how many data messages used a certain log message.
The message summary:
- Groups messages by namespace, interface name, and version.
- Allows users to get an overview of how frequently an error occurs.
- Provides mass reprocess and cancel functions.
- Allows navigation to Monitoring and Error Handling.
Only users with the correct authorizations can use the mass restart and cancel functionality for an interface.
You can navigate to Monitoring and Error Handling from the Message Summary by double-clicking on one line of the Message Summary. In Monitoring and Error Handling, all messages with the same message text are displayed. For example, a user can jump to Monitoring and Error Handling and display all messages with one specific error. The user has a clear overview of the affected messages and can easily fix the issue for all messages.
You can use mass restart and cancel functionality in the Message Summary. For example, if a user sees an error message that belongs to a logging problem, the user can select the message and restart the corresponding messages without needing to navigate to Monitoring and Error Handling, select the corresponding messages, and restart them.
Monitoring and Error Handling
The monitoring and error handling transaction enables the user to analyze errors, correct errors, and restart or cancel messages. Access to interface data can be restricted using authorizations.
The transaction can be accessed from the Interface Monitor or via transaction code /AIF/ERR.
Main Views of the Monitoring and Error Handling
Log Message View
- Displays all log messages for selected messages
- Shows technical errors, application errors, warnings, success, and information messages
- Jump to value mapping
- Supports error handling
- Create, edit, and delete custom hints and functions
- Confirm alerts
Data Message View
- Displays the data of the selected data message
- Editing of data content is possible, dependent on the settings in SAP Application Interface Framework Customizing and authorizations
- Highlights erroneous field or line (if context is known)
