You can use the IT Calendar in SAP Focused Run to review planned work modes for the services, systems and databases which are relevant for your daily work. From the IT Calendar you can also schedule work modes like peak business hours. The default page displays a calendar view showing the planned events for the selected systems, databases, hosts or services in the next days.
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The scope selector allows you to select the systems, databases hosts and external services that should be displayed in IT Calendar according to different criteria.
You can define a default variant that is executed automatically the next time you open IT Calendar as follows:
The IT Calendar opens by default in the "Complete view"
As of FRUN 2.0 FP02 you can choose between different views:
The Complete View provides the following features:
Via the settings button you can filter the event types to be displayed, choose in which time zone the events should be displayed and choose a holiday calendar to highlight the respective holidays in the IT Calendar.
You can switch between the "Technical System" and "Technical Instance View" .
You have the following options to change the time frame displayed in IT Calendar:
Click on an event to display the event details. Depending on the event type you can open the event in the originating application, copy or delete the event.
You can download events into an excel file as follows:
You can upload work modes from a csv file as explained further below.
The Work Mode Management in SAP Focused Run allows planning and maintenance of Work Modes for Technical systems, instances, databases, hosts and external services,
The following types of work modes are supported:
Work Mode Type |
Description |
Integration with System Monitoring and Service Availability Management |
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Planned Downtime |
Work mode during which the system is technically down and you do not have access. System administrators can use this work mode to perform planned administration tasks that can only be performed during downtime.
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System monitoring alerts are suppressed during planned downtimes. A new planned downtime entry is created in service availability management at the end of the planned downtime. By default, it is marked as not -SLA relevant. |
Maintenance
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Work mode during which the system is technically up and you have no access. System administrators can use this work mode to perform planned administration tasks that can only be performed during maintenance.
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No integration |
Peak Business Hours |
Work mode during which the system is technically up and you have access. Most users are logged on to the system and load peaks are expected. |
No integration |
Non-Peak Business Hours
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Work mode during which the system is technically up and you have access. Less users are logged on to the system, and load peaks are not expected. |
No integration |
Non-Business Hours |
Work mode during which the system is technically up and you have access. Most users are not logged on to the system and load peaks are not expected
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No integration |
You have several possibilities to schedule work modes:
You can schedule work modes manually from IT Calendar as follows:
Proceed as follows to create new work modes in the Expert Scheduling UI:
For recurring work modes, you should enter a start date when the first occurrence starts and an end date when the last occurrence ends.
Note: After saving recurring work modes, not all constituents will be visible in IT Calendar directly, only the first 100 constituents. A periodic batch job generates the next work modes subsequently.
You can maintain multiple future work modes in one csv file and upload them to IT Calendar as follows:
Examples
SAP Focused Run can send out automatic email or SMS notifications about planned work modes in a predefined schedule and using a predefined rich text or HTML template. Please refer to Notification Management for more information.
You can edit multiple in- progress or upcoming work modes from the Upcoming events page.