Using the ICM Monitor and Tracing

ICM Monitor: 


Use:

You can use this transaction (SMICM) to monitor and administrate the Internet Communication Manager, which sends and receives requests to and from the Internet.

To start the ICM monitor from the SAP menu choose Administration → System Administration → Monitor → System Monitoring  →  ICM Monitor, or enter transaction SMICM.

 ICM Tracing.

1.      Call Transaction SMICM.

2.      Choose Goto → Trace file → Display File or Display Start.

This displays the trace file.

Use:

When developing a Web application, you will want to test parts of your application and analyze the coding’s dynamic behavior. Occasionally this will result in errors that cannot be solved even with the help of the Debugger.

So that you can analyze the cause further, you need to be able to record the datastreams to and from the SAP Web Application Server. The SAP Web Application Server enables you to do this in the form of tracing.

The component that regulates HTTP data traffic is the Internet Communication Manager, (ICM). You can use Transaction SMICM to manage and trace this SAP kernel component.