SAP ABAP IMG Activity COCB310-14 (Define Alert Categories)
Hierarchy
☛ EA-APPL (Software Component) SAP Enterprise Extension PLM, SCM, Financials
   ⤷ PP-PI-PMA-MSG (Application Component) Process Message
     ⤷ CMX_PM (Package) Manufacturing Execution: Process Messages
IMG Activity
ID COCB310-14 Define Alert Categories  
Transaction Code S_E36_82000096   IMG Activity 
Created on 20020118    
Customizing Attributes COCB310-14   Define Alert Categories 
Customizing Activity COCB310-14   Define Alert Categories 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name COCB310-14    

Use

In this IMG activity, you define the alert categories that you want to use as message destinations. You can use alert categories, for example, to send alerts from PI sheets, external process control systems, or manually to one or more recipients without delay. The alerts can be sent to the recipient, for example, via e-mail or SMS.

The definition, administration, and delivery of alerts takes place on the SAP alert server. You can integrate the SAP alert server with your system landscape as follows:

  • The SAP alert server in the SAP application system is to be used as the alert management system.
  • The SAP alert server in an SAP system other than the application system is to be used as the alert management system.

Depending on how you integrated the SAP alert server with your system landscape, you must make the basic settings in the relevant systems as follows. These settings apply to all alerts in all alert categories:

In the SAP Application System

RFC Destination

  • If the SAP alert server in the SAP application system is to be used as the alert management system, you enter None as the RFC destination.
  • If the SAP alert server in another SAP system is to be used as the alert management system, you enter the RFC destination of the corresponding SAP System.

In the Alert Management System

  • User Master
    Depending on the communication medium, you enter, for example an e-mail address or a mobile phone number for SMS in the user master of the alert recipients.
  • Alert Categories
    In this step, you specify the following:
    • An alert category
      This also is the destination address for the message destination of type 5.
    • A short text and a long text for the alert category
    • If required, a container with specific text variables
      They also are the destination-specific target fields for your message destination of type 5. At runtime, the system replaces the text variables with current values.
    • If required, hyperlinks for subsequent activities
  • Destination Assignments
    You can define the alert recipients as follows:
    • Fixed recipients
      You assign individual users as recipients of the alert category.
    • Recipients via user roles
      You assign individual roles as recipients of the alert category. All users having this role are notified automatically when an alert of this category was sent.
    • Role assignment for authorizations
      When you choose this option, you can determine the authorizations for subscribing to certain alert categories via a role.
      • a) You define a role that contains the authorization for subscribing to alert categories.
      In this role, you define the menu entries Set Up Delivery Type, Subscribe to Alert, and Alert Inbox as a BSP application.
      b) You assign this role to the alert categories to which the users having this role may subscribe
      c) If this role has been assigned to you, you can add the menu entries contained in this role as a BSP application to your favorites.
      d) You call up the BSP application Subscribe to Alert.
      An overview of all alert categories to which you may subscribe via this role is displayed. In the Subscribed column, you can subscribe or unsubscribe an alert category.
      The standard system contains the role SAP_PP_PI_ALERT_MGMT_STD as an example. It already contains the above menu entries as BSP application.

Requirements

Standard settings

Activities

  1. Setting Up the SAP Application System
  2. Setting Up the Alert Management System

Example

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 255   Create Interfaces 
Mandatory / Optional 2   Optional activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG COCB310-14 0 HLA0006278 Process Message 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
IMGDUMMY D - Dummy object ALRTCATDEF  
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20070731 
SAP Release Created in 110