Solution Manager System Landscape

You capture and manage the system landscape centrally in the Solution Manager, and use it in your implementation and template projects, in Change Management, Customizing Synchronization (Customizing Scout, Customizing Distribution), and in operational processing (Solution Monitoring, Services, Service Desk).

Integration

The system landscape is the basis for using the SAP Solution Manager.

Features

• Create landscape components (server, databases, systems, system components)

• Definition of non-SAP products for use in the system landscape maintenance

• Automatic data read and save via ABAP main instances

• Overview of system groups

• Generation of RFC destinations to component systems; RFC connection errors are logged

• Manual data capture, e.g. servers, non-ABAP and planned systems

• Graphic display

  • Landscape components (servers, databases, systems)

  • Assign attributes to landscape components

• Analysis of system landscape by components

Service Data Control Center in Solution Manager

The Service Data Control Center supports the preparation and delivery of SAP service sessions, such as GoingLive and SAP EarlyWatch Alert.

The tool is intended primarily for SAP service engineers performing SAP service sessions, as well as for system administrators and other qualified customer employees working in their own SAP Solution Manager systems.

· The Service Data Control Center can supply multiple SAP Solution Manager systems with data.

· The Service Data Control Center provides also a systematic way of collecting non-ABAP SDCC data through the Solution Manager Diagnostic tool.

· The Service Data Control Center automates all the operations and processes needed to transfer performance data from the system(s) in which the data was collected to the system in which the data will be analyzed.

· Performance data can be analyzed in your SAP Solution Manager system or in a system at SAP.

· The Service Data Control Center manages and logs all the tasks performed, and allows you to track the progress of each task.

Start Solution Manager Diagnostics

Use

You want to start the Solution Manager Diagnostics from the SAP Solution Manager.

Prerequisites

You have installed Solution Manager Diagnostics.

You need a user name and password for the Solution Manager Diagnostics.

Procedure

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1. Choose the transaction SOLUTION_MANAGER.

2. Choose Goto ® Solution Manager Diagnostics ®Start.

The Solution Manager Diagnostics logon screen appears.

3. Enter the user name and password.

Result

You can use the Solution Manager Diagnostics.

Edit Solution Manager Diagnostics Template

Use

You want to change system information which is passed from the SAP Solution Manager to the Solution Manager Diagnostics, e.g. installation path, in the template predefined by SAP.

Prerequisites

You are authorized to change Solution Manager Diagnostics templates.

Procedure

1. Choose the transaction SMDIAG_TEMPLATE.

2. Choose a component.

3. Change settings.

Define Business Scenarios and Processes in Solution Manager

You want to define new business processes, business process steps, and interfaces.

Prerequisites

You have created a solution and assigned systems.

Procedure

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1. Choose the transaction SOLUTION_MANAGER.

2. Choose the Solution Landscape tab, in the Operations Setup area.

3. Choose the Solution Landscape link.

You go to the Solution Directory.

4. Open your solution.

5. Choose the Business Scenarios link in the left-hand screen.

6. Choose the Structure tab.

7. Enter the name of your business scenario.

8. Choose the business scenario status.

9. Repeat the steps 1-4 to create new business processes and business processes steps, as required.

To be able to monitor your business scenario and business processes in the Business Process Monitoring Sitzung, you must set the Status to Production.

10. Save.

Result

You can go to the business process monitoring Business Process MAINTENANCE sessionsapurl_link_0001_0001_0001

Basic Settings in solution manager

Before you can use the SAP Solution Manager, you must make a number of basic settings:

• Set-up user roles and profiles

• Set-up system landscape

• Define solutions

Defination

In a distributed environment with systems and dependencies of business processes beyond single system boundaries, there is a need for a new and efficient support infrastructure. Integrating technical as well as business (applications) environments are more crucial than ever and must be mastered perfectly.

The SAP Solution Manager, which runs centrally in a customer's solution landscape as an integrated platform, ensures that distributed systems can be supported technically.
The SAP Solution Manager introduces a new era of solution management covering all aspects relevant for technical implementation, operations, and continuous improvement.

SAP Solution Manager 4.0 offers functional areas to support the management of the entire customer solution:
° Implementation: Groups Tools, Content, and Methodologies to Efficiently Implement SAP Solutions
° Solution Monitoring: Ranges from System Monitoring to Business Process Monitoring
° Operations: Offers Services to Manage Your SAP Solution
° Support Area: To Support Every Step on the Way
° Upgrade: Supporting the Upgrade of SAP Components

As of April 2, 2007, SAP Solution Manager will be the only source from which customers receive maintenance updates for applications based on SAP NetWeaver 2004s, such as mySAP Business Suite 2005 applications and higher. It will also serve as the source of maintenance updates for earlier releases of SAP applications.

• Release 4.0 of SAP Solution Manager will offer significant enhancements for maintenance processes and activities, such as:
  - End-to-end and fully pre-configured maintenance management process
  - Planning and deployment dashboard for all maintenance-related activities
  - Source for all Support Packages provided by SAP as part of customers maintenance agreements

Solution Manager training courses offered by SAP:
° SMO010 - Solution Manager Concept & Strategy
° SMO100 - System Administration with SAP Solution Manager
° SMO610 - Business Process Management and Monitoring
° SMO150 - Service Desk
° SMO155 - Change Request Management
° SMI210 - Implementation Methodology Overview
° SMI310 - Implementation Tools in Detail

Creating installation key

First you have to create the system. This can be done using tcode. SMSY > Landscape component > Systems.
Scroll down to choose your system. In this case we will choose SAP ERP.
Right click and choose Create New System with Assistant. Follow the instruction and create the system

System :
Short Description :
SAP Product : SAP ERP
Product Version : SAP ERP 2005
Installation Number : Your Installation number

Choose Next and check Relevant in front of SAP ECC Server, then enter system number in the next screen and complete this following the instruction.

Now go back to the tcode SMSY and select system > other object...
Select radio button for system and put the SID you created above hit generate installation /Upgrade key (Ctrl+Shift+F10) and click generate key.

Short cut for creating installation key:
If you don't want to create system. You can still choose Solution Manager system from the drop down and hit generate key. Once you get to the screen 'Generate Installation / Upgrade Key. You can put any system you want. System ID will be the SID of new installation. It also requires system number and also message server. Click Generate key.