SLD and LMDB Topology: Replacing the Source SLD for the LMDB
It is recommended to use one System Landscape Directory (SLD) system as the source of CIM model, CR Content, and Technical Systems’ data for the Landscape Management Database (LMDB). However, the necessity may arise to change this SLD. Here are the points to consider in case of a switch to another SLD. Feb. 9, 2012
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Landscape Management Database (LMDB) – Frequently Asked Questions
With SAP Solution Manager 7.1 the Landscape Management Database (LMDB) has been introduced, changing the handling of landscape data. The answers to the questions in this blog shall help you to deal with these changes and benefit from the improvements. Feb. 2, 2012
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Agent Data in the SAP Solution Manager LMDB
Many applications of SAP Solution Manager workcenters use data from managed application systems and the hosts where they are installed on. Such information is about details of the application system landscape, configuration settings as well as logs or performance metrics. This blog describes the agents, the data collected by the agents, the agent setup, the upgrade strategy and the storage of this information in the SAP Solution Manager. Jan. 23, 2012
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Guidance for Planning Your Maintenance Processes with the SAP Solution Manager
System maintenance is a critical phase in the application life-cycle management. The SAP Solution Manager supports you in the whole process, but prerequisite steps have to be performed and manual action taken. The newly created Maintenance Planning Guide describes the processes and tools for Technology Consultants, System Administrators, and Support Specialists. Nov. 21, 2011
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Landscape Descriptions in General - Why They are Important and What Makes a Good One
Landscape descriptions can be compared to maps. In this blog I emphasize one aspect, which is often underestimated: A description is not the landscape itself, but it should be a reliable guide. The topics to address are scale and detail, reliability, and up-to-datedness of landscape descriptions. Aug. 26, 2011
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Understanding Landscape Descriptions – Part II: Products and Product Instances in Detail
Products and Product Instances are used to describe software that SAP delivers. It’s also these entities that you need to understand to maintain your systems. Read about these entities in some detail including reuse, versioning, and nesting. Aug. 26, 2011
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Understanding Landscape Descriptions - Part I: the Simple Approach to Explaining Products, Product Instances, and Software Components
Descriptions - or modeling - of system landscapes are based on some entities called Products, Product Instances, Software Components, and Product Systems. Understanding these entities is important for successful management of such landscapes.
This is the first blog of series meant to explain these terms. Jul. 21, 2011
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Data Adjustment in SMSY after an Upgrade of an SAP NetWeaver Hub System
The changes in software versions of an SAP system caused by updating or upgrading such a system is usually registered and kept up-to-date in the SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory and also written into the SAP Solution Manger System Landscape (transaction SMSY). Nevertheless, in some cases manual action is required in transaction SMSY to correct system data after an upgrade. Jul. 1, 2011
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Products, Product Systems, Product Instances, Technical Systems, and Landscape Patterns in the SAP Solution Manager
Products are made of Product Instances and installed on Technical Systems. If Technical Systems are reused in more than one Product System, you come to Landscape Patterns. These entities are described in this blog. Jun. 21, 2011
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How to Grant Full Read-Permission Without Change Permission in the SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory (SLD)
SLD data is important for many business processes and needs to be protected. In some cases, however, it is necessary that a person can see all SLD data – including those used by the SLD administrator – but need not change them: For this use case, a specific support role is available. May. 10, 2011
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Landscape Verification 1.0 for SAP Solution Manager - New Features
With its new version (SP1) the add-on landscape verification 1.0 for SAP Solution Manager provides you with new features: Now, there is a quick overview of the state of your landscape description and a wizard helping you correct errors in your landscape description directly in the landscape verification tool itself. Dec. 16, 2010
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Landscape Verification 1.0 for SAP Solution Manager - When to Install It
Landscape verification 1.0 for SAP Solution Manager gets a lot of attention and it is generally available. The question is: When to install it? This blog gives a few hints. Nov. 24, 2010
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Landscape Verification 1.0 for SAP Solution Manager - System Demo
Add-on landscape verification 1.0 for SAP Solution Manager is generally available since October 29 2010. It allows you to check your landscape description in SAP Solution Manager. In this two part of the demonstration you learn about features and functions from required roles to error solving. Nov. 22, 2010
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Landscape Verification 1.0 for SAP Solution Manager - General Availability
This blog is an announcement on the general availability of landscape verification 1.0 for SAP Solution Manager. This add-on runs on the SAP Solution Manager itself and does not require a new system installation. System administrators should use landscape verification to check landscape data in SAP Solution Manager’s System Landscape for errors. For all detected errors, landscape verification offers clear guidance on how to solve them. Landscape verification supports you in ensuring correct landscape data, which is used in system maintenance processes, such as SAP enhancement package installation. You can find out what you can expect fromthis tool and where to download it. Aug. 13, 2010
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SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory: Conflicts & Ranks in Full Automatic Content Synchronization
SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory as of SAP NetWeaver AS Java 7.1 features the Full Automatic Content Sync. This function allows connecting SLD systems to automatically update data incrementally when changes occur and provides automatic conflict resolution. Connections can be bidirectional or unidirectional. While in a bidirectional setup conflicts will hardly occur, in a unidirectional setup you need to follow some rules to avoid them. Jul. 28, 2010
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A New Book on SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory – German Version
A new book on SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory is available now – regrettably in German only. For those familiar with this language here is some hints on the content and how to get it. For the others: Just drop a line in the comments area if you would be interested in an English version, which might become available if we can show enough interest in the market. Mar. 30, 2010
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How-to Handle Data in the SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory
The System Landscape Directory (SLD) of SAP NetWeaver is a central provider of information on software and systems. It is used by many client applications, such as SAP NetWeaver Process Integration, SAP Solution Manager, and the Adaptive Computing Controller.
SLD data is needed in three areas of the landscape, for development systems, productive systems and systems managing systems. According to the different roles, different types of data are needed in each area. On the other hand, data should be gathered in one place to avoid inconsistencies. Therefore, data is retrieved once and then distributed. Feb. 9, 2010
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SLD Recommendation - Reasons to Use a Virtual IP Address for SLD Access
The SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory (SLD) is a central provider of landscape information used by many client applications. When using an SLD in your system landscape it might be a good idea to use a virtual IP address to access it.
This blog lists reasons and use cases. Feb. 9, 2010
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How-to Install a System Landscape Directory and Manage the Initial Setup?
With IT landscapes at least partially made up of SAP systems of more recent releases, gathering landscape data in the SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory (SLD) is mandatory. This blog describes the installation of an SLD system and the initial setup, which both have been automated to a large extent. Both processes are demonstrated using the example of an SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1 EHP1 installation. Feb. 8, 2010
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SLD Topology: How-To Gather and Distribute SLD-Data in Your IT-Landscape?
Any administrator, who is responsible for an IT-landscape, which at least partly consists of SAP systems, will know that many applications rely on data provided by the SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory (SLD). For several reasons, having more than one SLD might be necessary. In this blog I put the recommendations from the SLD Planning Guide on the SLD topology in a (coco-) nutshell – not to replace this document, which is still mandatory, but to give you an easy start when developing a new SLD strategy. Jan. 28, 2010
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How-to Implement SAP NetWeaver Functionality? - Configuration Made Easy
Once the installation of a new system is finished, there is still some work to do before you can test and release the functions for their users. What is still needed is the configuration of the system, which includes the activation of certain parts, the initial setup of the user management, the setup of a basic set of connections to integrate the system into your landscape, and so on. In the end there is quite a long list of steps - luckily, this process is highly automated in the Configuration Wizard of the SAP NetWeaver Administrator.
This demo shows the automated steps to configure a newly installed system running SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1 including EHP 1. Nov. 24, 2009
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How-to Implement SAP NetWeaver Functionality? – Installation Made Easy
Once you have decided to implement a new system you may ask yourself how much effort that might be? The central point of this blog is a demo the installation of a of SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1 including EHP1 to give you an idea of what to expect during that process. Nov. 24, 2009
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How-to Manage House-Cleaning in the System Landscape Directory - Duplicate System Entries
The SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory (SLD) is the central provider of landscape information in the SAP system landscape. Systems report their data automatically updating their data regularly in the SLD. Nevertheless, records of systems that have been de-installed or moved have to be taken care of to present client applications with up-to-date data. This task is necessary in all releases of the SLD, but support has improved over time. Sep. 28, 2009
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Better Manage SLD Exports and Imports Using CTS+
With SAP NetWeaver 7.0 SP 12 the Change and Transport System (CTS) learned to transport Non-ABAP content also, and is therefore often referred to as "CTS+". It is the preferable transport mechanism for many types of SAP content and more types will follow.
As of SAP NetWeaver 7.0 SP 14 transporting content of the SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory (SLD) is fully integrated with CTS+. The operation of system landscapes often requires exchange of data between SLD systems using an export / import procedure. This can be managed both more reliably and comfortably using CTS+ - as shown in a system demo.
Jun. 25, 2009
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Life-Cycle Mangement Use Cases - Installing SAP EHPs on Business-Critical Productive SAP NetWeaver Systems
This blog provides a demo series, showing the application of SAP enhancement package to a system with significantly reduced downtime. It gives an explanation and navigation spanning all steps during maintenance - planning, preparation, and execution. Jun. 8, 2009
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How to Ensure that SLD Data is Available during Maintenance
With SAP NetWeaver 7.1 "full automatic synchronization" has become available as a new feature of the System Landscape Directory (SLD). It allows setting up SLDs so that all their content is replicated from the source to the target SLD(s) and also in both directions if required. Up to here things have been announced already. This feature now can also be used to reduce the availability gaps of SLD data during planned downtime to a few seconds. Applied together with a high-availability setup usually focusing on unplanned downtime you can achieve very, very near to continuous availability of SLD data.
In a two parts demo I'll show how to make SLD data available independently of planned downtime. Mar. 27, 2009
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Demo: The Full Automatic Sync Feature in the SLD of SAP NetWeaver 7.1
With SAP NetWeaver 7.1 "full automatic synchronization" becomes available as a new feature of the System Landscape Directory (SLD). It allows setting up SLDs so that all their content is replicated from the source to the target SLD. This demo shows the new feature of the SLD and also how to set it up - either unidirectional or bidirectional. Jan. 5, 2009
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How to install SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0
This blog describes the prerequisites, tools, and scenarios to install SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0. Since the brand new SAP Enhancement Package Installer (SAPehpi) is the most important tool - in combination with SAP Solution Manager 7.0 - readers will also find a list of useful documents. Nov. 22, 2008
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How to Get an SAP NetWeaver 7.1 System Landscape Directory?
System Landscape directory of SAP NetWeaver 7.1 features a new way of fully automated synchronization of separate SLDs - this will be interesting enough for many of you to install this release as quickly as possible. This blog tells you where you will find this installation option. Nov. 7, 2008
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SAP Enhancement Packages and How to Install Them Using the New SAP Enhancement Package Installer - Life at SAP TechEd 2008
SAP enhancement package 1 for SAP NetWeaver 7.0 is the first one for the SAP NetWeaver platform. Together with this, a new way to install enhancement packages will become available: The SAP Enhancement Package Installer (SAPehpi) used to install SAP enhancement packages for SAP NetWeaver and SAP ERP alike.
Sep. 2, 2008
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