ProcessPrepare Projects and Solutions in Solution Manger

This process satisfies the prerequisites of the SAP Solution Manager.

Prerequisites

• To create the Solution Manager system landscape, you need authorization for the authorization object S_SMSYEDIT.

• To create system components, you need authorization for the authorization object S_SMSYSYST.

• To specify RFC connections, you have the authorizations required in the Solution Manager system and the satellite systems.

Process

1. Set-up automatic data capture for the system landscape, to read server, database and system data from the System Landscape Directory or the Landscape Information System, automatically.

2. Specify your system landscape in the Solution Manager System Landscape (transaction SMSY):

   1. Create systems or add the data to get systems automatically. The following system information is obligatory, to be able to generate RFC connections to this system:

      • Message server

      • Installation number

   2. Generate RFC connections to your systems or assign existing RFC connections to them.

   3. Combine related systems into logical components, e.g. the evaluation, development and test systems of a product, for an implementation project.

Result

You have set-up the system landscape to use the SAP Solution Manager.

You create projects or solutions and assign the logical components to the projects or solutions which you have created with this process.

Synchronize System Data with SAP Support Portal

System data, e.g. information about software component versions used, and their patch level, and the servers and databases of a system, is saved in both the Solution Manager System Landscape (SMSY) and in the SAP Support Portal. This information is required in the SAP Support Portal, for example, to find notes and for service connections.

When you have set-up Automatic Data Capture for System Landscape, the Solution Manager updates the system data in the Solution Manager System Landscape automatically. The Early Watch Alert refreshes only system data for production systems, automatically, monthly, in the SAP Support Portal. You can update system data for all systems periodically (e.g. daily) in the Solution Manager System Landscape, and as required, in the SAP Support Portal.

Note

With this procedure, you can switch the automatic synchronization of system data between Solution Manager and SAP Support Portal by Automatic Data Capture for System Landscape, on or off, for one system or all

End of the note.

Prerequisites

You have a user with authorization to change system data, in the SAP Support Portal. For further information, see the SAP Solution Manager configuration guide.

In a manually-created system, you have entered an installation number in the Header Data tab.

Procedure

1. Choose a system whose data is to be synchronized.

2. Choose the System Data in SAP Support Portal tab.

3. If the system displays a system number, continue with step 4.

   If the system does not display a system number:

   1. Choose Read System Number.

   2. If the system number is not determined, choose it from the possible entries help.

      The system gets the system number from the SAP Support Portal. The system number is uniquely assigned to the system installation number, and is required for the synchronization of system data.

4. To change data which you can only maintain in the SAP Support Portal, e.g. Add-On product version and use type data, choose Installation Data or System Data.

   You go to the SAP Support Portal maintenance screen

5. Synchronize the system data between SAP Solution Manager and SAP Support Portal:

   1. Choose the synchronization setting in the Synchronization frame.

      Recommendation

      You should synchronize all systems.

   2. To test the synchronization or transfer changes to a system into the SAP Support Portal immediately, choose Synchronize.

   3. Save your changes.

   If relevant changes are made to the system data, the Automatic Data Capture for System Landscape synchronizes the systems to be synchronized, periodically, according to your settings.

Example

SAP Support wants to support you, but cannot logon to your development system ABC, because the server data for this system is not in the SAP Support Portal.

1. Check in the Solution Manager System Landscape (transaction SMSY), whether the server data for system ABC is complete.

2. Enhance the server data in the Solution Manager System Landscape.

3. Synchronize the system data of system ABC with the SAP Support Portal, in the Solution Manager System Landscape

   SAP Support can log on to your system ABC

More Information

SAP note 993775 contains a list of system data which is synchronized between SAP Solution Manager and SAP Support Portal.

Manual Data Source Maintenance in Solution Manager

Use

You cannot edit all data manually in servers, databases and systems which were determined automatically. You can set the data source to manual maintenance, to be able to edit all data in this landscape element manually.

You should only set the data source to manual maintenance if the automatically captured description does not match the actual definiton of the landscape component. This can, for example, be the case if a system temporarily has an additional server, which is recognized by the automatic data capture, but should not be in the system description because it is only temporary.

Prerequisite

You are in the Solution Manager System Landscape (SMSY).

Procedure

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1. Choose Landscape Components ® Other Object, or

2. Choose the landscape component from the possible entries help, or enter the name of the landscape component.

3. Choose the Set Data Source to Manual Input pushbutton.

4. Confirm the confirmation prompt.

Automatic Data Capture in Solution Manager

You cannot manually edit all data in servers, databases and systems which was captured automatically. You can neither delete automatically-captured landscape elements, nor change their automatically-captured data. You can enhance this data.

To be able to edit all data in these landscape elements manually, set the data source to manual maintenance.

Update automatically-captured data

You can choose whether the system automatically overwrites manually-created data, or informs you when newer data is available. In the latter case, the last person to change the data to be updated gets an express mail. The obsolete data is flagged in the Solution Manager System Landscape with an exclamation mark. You can compare the data and choose to copy the new data.

Temporarily unavailable data

If data for instances in the System Landscape Directory (SLD) is temporarily not available, or a system is currently not reachable by RFC, e.g. because an instance is in maintenance, the Solution Manager automatically sets the Inactive flag in the Instances tab. When the instance is available again, the Solution Manager clears the flag. You can analyze this flag in the analyses.

If the instance is permanently unavailable, delete it manually.

ProcedureSet-Up Automatic Data Capture for System Landscape

You set-up automatic data capture from the Transport Management System (TMS) and the System Landscape Directory (SLD), to collect system data for the Solution Manager system landscape. With this data, the SAP Solution Manager can automatically get server, database and system data.

Prerequisites

• To use the Transport Management System (TMS):

  • You have assigned the Solution Manager to a transport domain, in the Transport Management System (STMS)

  • Or you have defined the Solution Manager system as the new domain controller in the Transport Management System.

• To use the System Landscape Directory (SLD):

  You have set-up the System Landscape Directory (SLD).

Procedure

1. Choose the transaction Set-Up System Landscape (SMSY_SETUP).

2. Select the source for automatic data capture.

   Recommendation

   Select the System Landscape Directory (SLD) as data source, if SLD is set-up in your system landscape.

   • The Transport Management System (TMS) gets only system names, clients and software components in the system, for systems in the transport domain.

   • To get additional data about servers and databases, set-up RFC connections from the Solution Manager to the satellite systems.

   • By default, SLD gets system names, clients, software components in the systems, servers and databases, independently of the transport domain.

   For further information, see System Landscape Directory in the SAP Library.

3. To make SLD settings, choose Edit Expert Settings :

   1. To read data from several System Landscape Directories (SLD), specify the value X for the option Several SLD Servers.

   2. If you use Adaptive Computing, specify the value A for the option Write Data into SLD.

4. Choose Schedule Automatic Data Transfer.

5. Enter the start date in the next screen. You can choose whether the job runs once or periodically.

   Recommendation

   We recommend daily.

   For further information, see Efects of Automatic Data Capture.

6. Save your entries.

   The system puts your data in the initial screen.

Result

• The Solution Manager collects the system data automatically at the specified time, or periodically, and displays it in the Solution Manager System Landscape (transaction SMSY).

  After data collection, the automatically identifiable systems and servers are visible in the Solution Manager System Landscape.

• You can then switch automatic synchronization of system data between Solution Manager and SAP Support Portal, on or off.

• The system logs each data transfer. You can call the logs with Logs Update Logs , in the transactions Set-Up System Landscape (SMSY_SETUP) and Solution Manager System Landscape (SMSY).

  Note

  To delete data transfer logs:

  1. Choose Logs Update Logs Delete in the transaction Set-Up System Landscape (SMSY_SETUP) or Solution Manager System Landscape (SMSY).

  2. Choose the options.

  3. Choose Execute.

Solution Manager System Landscape

Use

You create and manage the system landscape centrally in the Solution Manager, to use it in your implementation and template projects, for product maintenance and installation with the Maintenance Optimizer, to monitor change requests (Change Management), in the Customizing Synchronization (Customizing Scout, Customizing Distribution) and in operational processing (Solution Monitoring, Services, Support Desk).

Integration

The SAP Solution Manager is based on the system landscape. A correctly maintained system landscape is a prerequisite for the Solution Manager functions:

● Generate Project IMGs in the Project Administration

● Go to the component systems in the Configuration phase

● Customizing Synchronization (Customizing Scout, Customizing Distribution, Synchronization Group Editor)

● System roles in Change Management

● Maintain the solution landscapes for the operational processing of your solutions

Features

● Create landscape components (servers, databases, systems, system components)

● Define non-SAP products for use in the system landscape maintenance

● ABAP main instance reads and saves data automatically

● Overview of system groups

● Generate RFC destinations for the component systems; RFC connection errors are logged

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

● Graphical display

○ Landscape components (servers, databases, system)

○ Assignment of attributes to landscape components

● Analyzing the System Landscape by Landscape Components