Define Solutions in the Solution Directory

Purpose

You specify solutions to use the SAP Solution Manager effectively. A solution contains systems in your system landscape, which you assign according to certain criteria, for example:

● It contains all systems used in the production processing in your system landscape, i.e. on which one or more of your most important business processes run. You can proactively monitor the business processes, business process steps, and interfaces of these systems (e.g. all production systems).

● It has a restricted view of the systems in your system landscape, e.g. for a business area.

You can:

● create or copy business processes from existing projects or the Business Process Repository, into your solution.

● Assign a maintenance project to change business scenarios and business processes, to your solution.

The definition of solutions allows you to monitor all systems in your production solution, or all production business processes which run in the systems.

Specify the solution scope in the Solution Directory, for example:

● which system components they use, or which business processes and business process steps you want to monitor in the Solution Monitoring.

● the contact persons for the sessions.

● for which systems the EarlyWatch Alert data is to be collected.

● session language.

● which graphic views of your systems and business processes you want to use in Solution Monitoring.

● which maintenance project you want to assign to the solution.

Prerequisites

To be able to create solutions in the SAP Solution Manager, you have:

● assigned the Solution Monitoring role to the users

To be able to specify the created solutions in the Solution Directory, you have:

● local availability of Internet Explorer (5.5 or higher).

● active ActiveX controls in your browser.

● assigned Solution Directory roles to users.

● Defined systems and logical components in the System landscape maintenance (transaction SMSY).

Procedures

To specify a solution:

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1. Fulfill the prerequisites for specifying the scope of your solution:

○ Create your solution

2. Specify the scope of your solution:

a. Assign Solution Attributes

b. Assign Systems and Logical Components

c. Model Business Scenarios and Processes

d. Define Interfaces

e. Define System Graphic

f. Define Server Graphic