mySAP Toolbag for Performance Tuning and Stress Testing

15.5. SAP Systems Management

To some folks, it might seem unlikely to lump “increased systems administration understanding” into the list of additional benefits made possible by a string of stress-test runs. After all, systems management itself does not appear related to performance testing (though monitoring a system is certainly taxing to that system, inherently impacting performance!). But I say there's no better way to characterize or prove that your systems-management processes, performance thresholds, alert mechanisms, and reporting processes work as expected than to do so while a load is placed on your system, as discussed next.

15.5.1. Systems Administration and Daily Operations

As discussed in Chapters 12 and 13, the key to successfully ...