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Scansor 2024.07 Release Notes
Generated on July 24th, 2024
Technical version: 24.07.0
New sensors
SAP HANA Monitor
- besides most of the features of HANA Monitor you can also check for HANA high alerts and decide what exactly needs to be monitored
New features
SAP Freespace Monitor
- new parameter has been added to have the option to exclude specific mounts or drive
HANA Monitor (deprecated)
- This sensor is deprecated and will be replaced by the new SAP HANA Monitor. Additionally you should consider using the SAP System Monitor to monitor the processes of your HANA database.
SAP Dump Monitor (deprecated)
- This sensor is deprecated and will be replaced by the new SAP Dump Monitor V2, that monitors the newest releases of S/4HANA and BW/4HANA as well as the older release of SAP Netweaver
Scansor Framework
- Using SNC identity to sign in with SSO
Bugfixes:
SAP Dump Monitor V2
- the newest versions of SAP BW/4HANA can be checked as well by this sensor
- this sensor can now also be used for older version like Netweaver 7.5
SAP Release Monitor
- the S/4HANA 2023 release can now also be monitored by this sensor
Oracle Monitor
- sometimes wrong values were shown when using specific region settings
MSSQL Monitor
- sometimes wrong values were shown when using specific region settings
SAP Parameter Monitor
- Sometimes you get wrong results when having several application servers
Scansor 2024.04 Release Notes
Generated on April 23th, 2024
Technical version: 3.10.0
New sensors
SAP Dump Monitor V2
- The dump monitor now also supports the latest ABAP releases (e.g. S/4HANA 2023 FPS01)
- you can filter for program names (exclude and include is possible)
New features
SAP ApplicationLog Monitor
- Added new filter for problem class
SAP Job Monitor
- Added new option to exclude job names and / or job owners from the search
SAP Update Monitor
- Extended the error text with the affected user name, tcode and time of update errors occurring on the same day
SAP CriticalPermissions Monitor
- Improved the query logic for profiles and roles to reduce execution time
SAP tRFC Monitor
- Added parameter for time threshold of wait update & long running queues
SAP CPI Monitor
- Implemented the functionality to use OAuth client credentials (clientID & clientSecret) for inbound calls to the SAP integration suite
SAP PI/PO Monitor
- Added new channels for checking the messages in status "to be delivered" and "delivering"
- Implemented the functionality to get notified in case messages are in status "delivering" for a long time
Bugfixes:
SAP IDM Monitor
- Implemented a solution to catch possible exceptions with Oracle DB
- A dispatcher stops with an exception and is not able to update it's state in the database
SAP aRFC Monitor
- The query logic has been corrected for requests on February, the 29th in a leap year
SAP System Monitor
- Under certain circumstances processes couldn't be displayed or not all instances were shown
SAP User Monitor
- Sometimes you get wrong results when having several application servers
SAP Parameter Monitor
- Sometimes you get wrong results when having several application servers
Scansor 2024.01 Release Notes
Generated on January 16th, 2024
Technical version: 3.9.0
New features
SAP Spool Monitor
- New parameter has been added to filter for spool request name(s) (only suffix2 name)
SAP IdM Monitor
- Added possibility to define additional queries
- Added parameter CustomOnly to use the sensor with custom queries only
SAP Parameter Monitor
- Can now be used as well for non-ABAP systems like SAP web dispatcher
SAP Release Monitor
- The sensor is now usable for JAVA systems and also ABAP components are added to output files
Bugfixes:
SAP aRFC Monitor
- The calculation of the week and month timeframe has been corrected
- In some cases more errors were shown than in SM58
Scansor 2023.09 Release Notes
Generated on October 2nd, 2023
Technical version: 3.8.0
New sensors
Oracle Data Guard Monitor
- checks the status of the Oracle Data Guard cluster
SAP WebService Monitor
- to monitor the status of asynchronous web service messages in ABAP (SRT_MONI)
New features
SAP CloudConnector Monitor
- in case of an HA setup the status of the master and shadow instance can be monitored
SAP Certificate Monitor
- added the option to establish the connection via https
SAP Enqueue Monitor
- added the option to establish the connection via https
SAP Freespace Monitor
- added the option to establish the connection via https
SAP J2EE Monitor
- added the option to establish the connection via https
SAP Parameter Monitor
- added the option to establish the connection via https
SAP Release Monitor
- added the option to establish the connection via https
SAP Syslog Monitor
- added the option to establish the connection via https
Bugfixes:
Oracle Monitor
- the TBSP Total Size was empty when size is 0
SAP Spool Monitor
- the check of the used timezone has been corrected
Scansor 2023.06 Release Notes
Generated on June 20th, 2023
Technical version: 3.7.0
New sensors
SAP System Monitor
- Displays the status of all instances and processes of a SAP system
- Works for all instance-based SAP systems like ABAP, AS Java, Webdispatcher, etc. (except SAP Identity Management)
New features
SAP SF Execution Monitor
- Added additional parameters to filter for one or more scheduled jobs and/or integration center jobs
Sybase Monitor
- Added a channel to optionally check the status of the backup server
SAP Release Monitor
- Product and component versions are now also written to the csv file
SAP PI/PO Monitor
- Added the possibility to check the status of certificates of defined keystores
SAP RFC Monitor
- Added possibility to define accepted HTTP return codes or custom HTTP status texts for RFC type G connections
Bugfixes:
SAP BatchMappen Monitor
- The new QSTATE C is now recognized by the sensor as well
Sybase Monitor
- Error handling has been implemented in case of null values in DBSpace check
SAP Dump Monitor
- New selection logic was implemented to avoid INVALID_OPTION error when IgnoreReport parameter is set
SAP User Monitor
- Wrong lookup value for SAP* has been corrected
Scansor 2023.03 Release Notes
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
Scansor 2022.12 Release Notes
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
Scansor 2022.08 Release Notes
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
Scansor 2022.05 Release Notes
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
Scansor 2021.12 Release Notes
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
Scansor 2021.09 Release Notes
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
Scansor 2021.06 Release Notes
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
Scansor 2021.03 Release Notes
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:
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.
Scansor 2020.09 Release Notes
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
Scansor 2020.06 Release Notes
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.
Scansor 2020.05 Release Notes
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
- 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
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.