How to use dpmon tool - to monitor work process status @OS

 Dpmon - Dispatcher monitoring 

Dpmon tool is use to check the status of  work process or dispatcher queue @ operating system level without login to SAP GUI.

use cases:

1. To get the status of work process @ OS level, when the SAP GUI login is not possible.

Practical steps:

1.login to putty session using <sid>adm user.

2.To list down the available profiles, issue command- cdpro or (/sapmnt/<SID>/profile)

3.follow by command - ls

4.dpmon pf=<use_the_profile_used_for_application_server> - results shows dispatcher queue statistics.

5.type 'm' to display all the menu available for the dpmon.

6.type 'I' to display work process overview.

7.step 4,5,6 can be replace with command - dpmon m i

8.if all the work process are full take the PID of the work process and kill the process id with command- kill -9 <PID>