Symptom
You want to see iViews in Workload Analysis but they do not work and throw error: Value "IVIEWS" for varaiable "E2E Metric Type Variable" is invalid.
Environment
SAP Solution Manager 7.10
Reproducing the Issue
- Start SM_WORKCENTER to access RCA E2E Workload Analysis tool
- Choose your system
- Start Workload Analysis
- Click Portal -> Top iViews
- Run query
Cause
IVIEWS metrics are not activated by default, but prepared. You have to activate them manually.
Resolution
- Go to step "7 Configure Automatically" of the Managed System Configuration for your system.
- Go into "Edit" mode.
- Start activity "Byte Code Adapter Installation" manually with pressing "Open Java URL" in Navigation column.
- In the new browser window select all J2EE server nodes of your system, choose "Autoprobe Directives".
- Mark the instrumentation files sap_ep.jar and sap_ep_iviews.jar
- Click "Apply" to activate the parameterization.
The additional instrumentation will become effective with the next restart of <SID>~JAVA.
The iView data should be available at latest after one day in E2E Workload Analysis Tool.
REMARK:
Make sure you are running newest patch for your Introscope Java Agent as many enhancement were introduced for iViews.
See Also
Keywords
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