What does "SAP RFC targets/functions" mean?

[kohtsuka]

Hello,

I am trying to estimate the amount of DDU licenses required to use the SAP ABAP Extension.

In the Dynatrace Licensing Consumption Calculator, I see the following items,
"Avg. # of RFC targets/functions to be monitored per Application Server instance per minute".
What does this mean? How can I estimate the quantity in advance?

If anyone can help, please advise.

Kohei Otsuka

[Mike_L]

Hi,

That's a screenshot from an internal sheet. Please reach out to whoever sent it to you for help. In short: We poll the SAP application server once a minute to ask it about the incoming and outgoing RFC calls. We then aggregate it either by function+user or by server, and send the result to Dynatrace. Unless you run ST03(N) a few times with a minute resolution to get similar data it's very tricky to estimate.

Mike

[kohtsuka]

Hello Mike

Thank you for your answer.
I understood that it is very difficult to estimate the amount of licenses needed in advance.

I would like to ask an additional question, is it possible to reduce the amount of metrics to be captured by SAP ABAP Extension?
For example, is there a way to reduce the sampling rate, as RUM does?
The goal is to reduce the consumption of DDUs.

Kohei Otsuka

[Mike_L · Accepted solution]

You can reduce the sampling rate for the user sessions with Tcodes in the settings of the custom application. As for DDU's, you've got three options which impacts it a lot, on top of not gathering any/limited tasks.

1. Only gather RFC per remote server, instead of per function
2. Do not gather RFC
3. Set the extension to only poll once every 5 minutes (this might make the extension miss data as the SAP server aggregates data quickly and might not send everything)

Mike

[kohtsuka]

Thanks for the answer.
I see that there is an option to not get the metrics for a specific task type.
That was very helpful. Thank you very much.

Kohei Otsuka