Scansor Releases im Überblick

Generated on March 28th, 2023
Technical version: 3.6.0

New features

SAP Job Monitor

Added new option to filter for job owner
Long running jobs are now displayed in the sensor text once a defined threshold has been reached
Added a new channel for released jobs

Sybase Monitor

SSL connection ist now supported

MSSQL Monitor

Added channels for log size and log space used

SAP SF Execution Monitor

Added possibility to authenticate via OAuth

SAP Parameter Monitor

Added new preset for S4 systems based on the official SAP Security Baseline
Updated existing preset based on the official SAP Security Baseline

Bugfixes:

SAP Critical Permissions Monitor

Corrected wrong syntax in the preset file

MaxDB Monitor

Count of differential backups has been corrected

DB2 Monitor

The correct amount of backups is now displayed in case of backup is splitted in several pieces

HANA Monitor

Value of "Last Log Backup" Channel has been corrected

SAP tRFC Monitor

The queues SMQ1 & SMQ2 have been exchanged to show their values and filter QueueName is now working correctly

SAP IDM Monitor

Selection of log entries has been corrected when using Oracle database

Generated on December 5th, 2022
Technical version: 3.5.0

New sensors

SAP Critical Permissions Monitor

Monitors Users with critical permissions or combination of permissions

New features

SAP Release Monitor

Added option to write the release informations to a csv file

SAP Content Server Monitor

Added channel for TLS certificate validity

Sybase Monitor

Added channel to check "trunc log on chkpt"

SAP Parameter Monitor

Added option to detect dynamic parameter changes

Bugfixes

Sybase Monitor

No error occurs anymore in case of NULL values

Oracle Monitor

No error occurs anymore if tablespace is not in space metrics table

Generated on August 16th, 2022
Technical version: 3.4.0

New sensors

SAP Job Log Monitor

Monitors the logs of given jobs for a defined keyword or a regular expression

SAP User Monitor

Monitors the number of users depending on type and state and checks if the special user SAP* is present and configured correctly

SAP Release Monitor

Shows version information of installed products and components of a SAP ABAP system including Kernel, Common Cryptolib and SPAM/SAINT Version

New features

HANA Monitor

Added channels for count of incremental and differential backups.

SAP J2EE Monitor

Added parameter "Components" to monitor the status of applications, services or data sources

Added preset for SAP IDM to monitor the status of IDM specific components

SAP IDM Monitor

Added channel for count of inactive repositories

Added channel for housekeeping check

Added check for "LAST_VISITED" field in dispatcher table to set the dispatcher state to UNKNOWN if the dispatcher is not responding anymore

SAP Parameter Monitor

Added presets for TLS 1.x checks

SAP Syslog Monitor

Added preset for Security and transferred default value for parameter "ErrorCodes" to Default.preset

Added filter for users to only read entries depending on one or more specified users

Generated on May 17th, 2022
Technical version: 3.3.0

New sensors

SAP Cloud Connector

Monitors the status of the cloud connector and its connected subaccounts
Verifies the valdity of the certificates
Displays the current memory status of the machine where the Cloud Connector is running

New features

Framework

Update to correctly handle the responses of several Scansor sensors (e.g. Client or Job Sensor) because of changes in function modules in newer SAP Releases

SAP J2EE Monitor

Added channels to monitor JAVA Garbage collection (e.g. pageFaults, amount of Full GC or CPU time of GC)

Bugfixes

Scansor framework

Now supports the adaptions in the latest SAP support packages (e.g. newest EHP7 or S/4HANA 2021) when it comes to sensors using RFC connection (e.g. SAP Job Monitor)

Profiler

Doesn't throw an exception anymore if a profile with deprecated parameters is loading

Sybase Monitor

Updated the sensor to get more accurate values for Spaceusage channels

MaxDB

Corrected wrong counting of incremental backups in some cases

SAP J2EE Monitor

Results with ‘-‘ are catched now and no «invalid integer value» error occurs anymore

SAP aRFC Monitor

Corrected queries for new function module in the latest SAP support packages

SAP tRFC Monitor

Corrected queries for new function module in the latest SAP support packages

SAP Parameter Monitor

Corrected required parameters to be only Host, OS Username and OS Password

Generated on December 8th, 2021
Technical version: 3.2.0

New features

Framework

Added support for reading data via RFC connection for the latest SAP support packages (e.g. newest EHP7 or S/4HANA 2021)

SAP CPI Monitor

Added channels to monitor the keystore and check the validation respectively the expiration of the certificates

Bugfixes

SAP bgRFC Monitor

In some cases the selection of data failed because of empty fields in the database

SAP SOST Monitor

Fixed the count of items because in some cases all values were 0

HANA Monitor

The sensor showed status down in case the secondary node is not connected to the primary and shipping delay is empty

SAP Certificate Monitor

When using SAP Certificate Monitor with specific SAP Cryptolib versions, no invalid certificates in a trusted list of a PSE were shown. Different SAP Cryptolib versions are supported

Sybase Monitor

Fixed the calculation of used space in MB to have more accurate values

Generated on October 6th, 2021
Technical version: 3.1.0

New sensors

SAP bgRFC Monitor

Monitors tRFC/qRFC inbound and outbound queues for errors and locks

HANA SDI Monitor

Monitors the status of the DP agent
Monitors the status of the connected remote resources (incl. corresponding DB adapters)
Monitors the status of the scheduled tasks

New features

MaxDB Monitor

Added channels for sessions used as absolute number and percent
Added channels for incremental backups

SAP Dump Monitor

Added channels for count of unique dumps

SAP Spool Monitor

Added parameter to filter for specific printer

SAP SOST Monitor

Added channels for count of successful and waiting messages
Introduced new parameter "Minutes" to configure the timespan for which messages should be checked

SAP Content Server Monitor

Added support for https

SAP Application Log Monitor

Added filter for "ExternalID" like in transaction SLG1

HANA Monitor

Introduced new parameter "CheckServices" to enable/disable the check of running services via sapcontrol (OS user no longer necessary)
Added support for HANA systems without a license like HANA Cockpit installations

SAP Enqueue Monitor

Adapted to new enq/* parameters in the SAP profile

Generated on July 6th, 2021
Technical version: 3.0.0

New sensors

SAP ApplicationLog Monitor

monitors the SAP application log (SLG1) for errors within the last x minutes
you can set different filters like objects, subobjects, modes, users, programs or tcodes

SAP SF Execution Monitor

collects the exceptions from the Execution Management that is configured on the SuccessFactors cloud service
the monitoring categories “Middleware Integration”, “Scheduled Job”, “Integration Center” and “Smart Suite” are covered

SAP CPI Monitor

monitors the number of completed and failed iFlows (integration flows) on SAP Cloud Platform Integration in a defined timeframe (e.g. the last hour)

New features

Scansor Framework

you can now install or update Scansor with a 64bit version
with the 64bit version you can use SNC as connection type

SAP IDM Monitor

this sensor has been improved and can now check the dispatcher status, errors and warnings in the job log
the sensor also checks the number of entries in the provisioning queue, checked-out packages and the number of active identities per ID store in a SAP Identity Management System

SAP Dump Monitor

Display the name of the shortdumps in the sensor text

Bugfixes

SAP Spool Monitor

the calculation of the value for the channel "Used" has been corrected

Generated on March 31, 2021
Technical Version: 2.3.0

New sensors

SAP Parameter Monitor

Checks one or more SAP profile parameters for desired values using different comparing operators
The sensor is delivered with a predefined template of security relevant parameters based on the official SAP Security Baseline

New features

Framework

The SAP sensors can now also be used to monitor ECP systems running on Successfactors. Don't hesitate to contact us if you want to get more information.

HANA Monitor

By an extension of the channel "logmodecheck" the usage type of the HANA database is also checked and you have now 4 different result values:

1. OK = backup and log mode normal is activated

2. Warning = log mode overwrite of non production systems is activated
3. Error = log mode overwrite of production systems is set
4. Error = no backup and log mode normal is defined

SAP Certificate Monitor

Two additional values have been added to the <PSEName> channel to get notified once a certificate expires in less than 90 and less than 60 days.

SAP Dump Monitor

Added the new parameter “IgnoreReport” to exclude program(s) from counting the number of dumps.

Oracle Monitor

Added new channels for checking the status of incremental backups "… Incr Backup(s)" in case the default value of parameter "IncrBackupsUsed" is changed from no to yes.

Bugfixes

Oracle Monitor

You don't get "insufficient privileges" errors anymore when a tablespace is empty (e.g. for PSAPUNDO).

SAP Certificate Monitor

The SAPSNCSKERB.pse certificate is not a "normal" PSE, since it contains keytab entries and you can not read the expiration date respectively there is no expiration date. Thus it will be ignored now.
The correct result is now displayed in case the certificate can't be read or the certificate is not yet valid. Before an "expiration in less than 7 days" was displayed as result.

SAP Job Monitor

The parameter "Jobname" is no longer ignored when monitoring suspended jobs.

HANA Monitor

The calculation of the peak memory of the last 12 months is sometimes wrong. That depends on the HANA revision which is used. Now the total consumption of the peak HANA memory is displayed correctly.

SAP Update Monitor

The successfully processed V2 updates are not interpreted as errors anymore.

SSH Memory Info

The value of "Swap Used Percent" is now calculated correctly in case "Swap Total" is 0.

Generated on September 30, 2020
Technical version: 2.2.0

New features

SAP tRFC Monitor enhancement:

Added new channel to monitor the outgoing queues which are in status WAITUPDA for longer than 10 minutes

Added new channel to monitor the outgoing & incoming queues which are in status RUNNING for longer than 30 minutes

Filter the outgoing & incoming queues by defining queue name(s)

SAP IDoc Monitor enhancement:

Added additional channels to differentiate between inbound and outbound IDocs

Filter inbound IDocs by inbound sender partner(s)

Filter outbound IDocs by outbound receiver partner(s)

Filter the IDocs by customized error state(s)

Adapted the result text to display the IDoc type and the amount of IDocs with errors

SAP Z-Role:

Delivering a predefined role for the monitoring user in SAP ABAP systems

The SAP Z-Role (file "Z_MONI_ROLLE.SAP") is delivered with the installer (ZIP-file

Bugfixes

SAP Job Monitor

the date time parsing error (empty value for end time while Job is running) has been fixed
the text "comma separated" in the profiler has been removed since only one entry is possible

SAP BatchMappen Monitor

The correct group id(s) with failed transactions and the corresponding client are displayed now.

HANA Monitor

Adapted the order of the lookup values (0-7) of the channels “last backup” & “last log backup” for a better setup of notification thresholds

SAP Freespace Monitor

Filter of undefined volumes

SAP IDoc Monitor

Using the update time instead of creation time of IDocs when when executing the query

SAP RFC Monitor

The status “No RFC authorization” is now only checked for RFC connections from type 3

Generated on June 30, 2020
Technical version: 2.1.0

New features

SAP PI/PO Monitor enhancement:

The WSDL for AdapterMessageMonitoringVi web service will be generated automatically if the parameter "Url" has not been set
But you can overwrite the Url if necessary (e.g. when using https)
Also PI messages in status "holding" are shown
The PI messages are displayed per "ReceiverInterfaceComponent" in case there are any defined (comma separated parameter value)

DB2 Monitor enhancement:

displays the free space of DMS tablespaces without auto-resize enabled (with pre-defined thresholds)
[optional] displays the free space of DMS tablespaces with auto-resize enabled (without pre-defined thresholds)
checks the activation of MAXSIZE of DMS tablespaces with auto-resize enabled and lists the tablespaces whose free space is below the thresholds of 10% or 5%

HANA Monitor enhancement:

new channel "Last Backup" which displays the status of the last data backup
new channel "Last Log Backup" that displays the status of the last log backup within the last <days> days

Possible states:

OK: successful
OK: running
OK: prepared
Warning: no backup
Warning: undefined status
Error: failed
Error: canceled
Error: cancel pending

SAP RFC Monitor enhancement:

the sensor has been extended to monitor also RFC connections of type HTTP (G,H) and TCP/IP (T)

Bugfixes

SAP Server Monitor:

SAP Server Monitor does not need SAP credentials anymore (fixed required parameter)

SAP Job Monitor:

Removed Days parameter from Profiler as this parameter is not supported anymore

Oracle Monitor:

Now supports also "fnr" as backup file type.

Generated on May 27, 2020
Technical version: 2.0.0

We are proud to present you a brand new release of Scansor - formerly known as SAP monitoring for PRTG - the one and only tool to monitor SAP systems, the tool our customers love.

With this release we introduce new license keys. You will need a new license key for using it. Existing customers will be informed and contacted automatically. Please do not hesitate to contact our support or sales if you have any questions to your existing license.
This release includes also new sensors that will change your way of monitoring.

New Sensors

SAP PI/PO Sensor

This brand new sensor contains parts of the PI message monitor and allows you to monitor the status of the messages. You get an overview of the amount of messages with the following status:

error messages
canceled (with error) messages

By default the monitor covers the messages from the last hour but that can be easily adjusted.

SAP Certificate Monitor

This sensor represents the state of certificates in SAP. It returns the following channels for each PSE:

OK: Certificate valid
Warning: Certificate expires in 30 days
Error: Certificate expires in 7 days
Error: Certificate not yet valid
Error: Could not parse PSE validity

It returns an error message as result text if there is an exception while collecting PSE or OS executes.

SSH File Monitor

There is a standard sensor which can do this on Windows systems. But this new sensor allows you to monitor the modification date of one or more files also on Linux systems by using SSH. The last modification time will be shown in hours.

Bugfixes

SAP Job Monitor ignores warning limits

Correction of limit parameters in "Aborted" and "Suspended" channel (change warning limit min to warning limit max)
Add options to check also for "ENDDATE" and "ENDTIME" (not only "STRTDATE" and "STRTTIME") for all channels except "Suspended"
Parameter "Days" removed; using only parameter "Minutes"

SAP STMS Monitor checks wrong time value

Fixed a bug where the sensor returned too many results due to wrong date and time handling.