Measures reported by SapB1TaskExecTest

A task is a support or maintenance solution with the following characteristics:

• Tasks are provided by SAP or SAP partners.

• Tasks are run on a database or other entities of an SAP Business One environment by the agent of the remote support platform for SAP Business One.

• Tasks return results in XML format. These results can be opened in a Web browser.

Tasks can be run automatically, based on a schedule, or can be executed manually. Tasks that do not contain schedule information can only be executed manually.

The remote support platform for SAP Business One includes the following types of tasks:

• Health checks

• System tasks

• PowerShell

• Database maintenance

• Corrective tasks

• Simple tasks

In a SAP Business One environment, the tasks of each task type are executed periodically to figure out inconsistencies that are noticed upon evaluating the status of the SAP Business One landscape, backup and restore of the databases, issues in remote administrative tasks etc. Sometimes, the execution of the tasks may fail frequently which may frustrate the administrators. Timely intervention of such execution failures is a necessity to ensure smooth functioning of the target SAP Business One. The SapB1TaskExecTest aids administrators in this regard!

This test auto-discovers the task types that are executing on the target SAP Business One and for each task type, reports the total number of times the tasks were executed. This test also reveals the number of times the tasks of each task type were executed successfully and the number of times the tasks of each task type failed execution. Using this test, administrators can figure out the tasks of the task type that encountered frequent execution failures and trouble shoot such failures well before the users connecting to SAP Business One start complaining!

Outputs of the test: One set of results for each Task type executing on the target SAP Business One being monitored.

Descriptor: Task Type

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
successTasks	Indicates the number of times the task of this type was executed successfully during the last measurement period.	Number	Compare the value of this measure across task types to figure out the task type that had the maximum number of successful task executions. The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the name of the task, description, version, category and Task GUID.
successRate	Indicates the rate at which the tasks of this type were executed successfully during the last measurement period.	Tasks/sec	A high value is desired for this measure.
failedTasks	Indicates the number of times the task of this type failed execution during the last measurement period.	Number	Compare the value of this measure across task types to figure out the task type that encountered maximum number of failed executions. The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the name of the task, description, version, category and Task GUID.
failedRate	Indicates the rate at which tasks of this type failed execution during the last measurement period.	Tasks/sec	A low value is desired for this mesaure.
totalTasks	Indicates the total number of times the task of this type was executed during the last measurement period.	Number	The value of this measure is the sum of Successful tasks and Failed tasks measures.
totalRate	Indicates the total number of tasks of this type that were executed per second during the last measurement period.	Tasks/sec