HP-UX Workload Manager User's Guide

Integration with other products
Integrating with SAP software
Appendix D438
Integrating with SAP software
In conjunction with HP Serviceguard Extension for SAP (SGeSAP),
WLM provides integration with SAP applications through the WLM SAP
Toolkit (SAPTK). This toolkit is part of the freely available WLM
Toolkits, or WLMTK.
SAP has several different types of processes such as dialog (interactive),
batch, update, and spool processes. Each type of process might have
greater importance at unique times of the month. For example, batch
processes can become very important at the end of the month when
information is being compiled for end-of-month reports. The issue with
managing SAP workloads has been that the process types cannot be
determined from standard ps output, which is what WLM typically uses
to place processes in workload groups.
WLM and SAPTK now provide the solution, made possible by the WLM
process map feature introduced in WLM A.03.01. Now you can identify
different SAP processes and separate them into different workloads. The
WLM SAP Toolkit provides a process ID identifier called wlmsapmap that
is designed to use process maps. The wlmsapmap tool allows you to
identify and isolate entire SAP instances—or just subsets of an
instance’s processes—as a separate workload. For example, you can use
wlmsapmap to collect batch and dialog processes and place them in
separate workload groups.
Why use SAPTK?
SAPTK allows easy isolation and separation of SAP workloads. You can
use WLM to prioritize and assign specific SAP processes to workload
groups. For example, you can:
• Isolate an entire SAP system as a workload
• Isolate an SAP instance as a workload
• Separate SAP processes from an instance and place them in a
workload
Tools in SAPTK
This toolkit includes the following tool: