Landscapes 

Definition

A landscape represents a logical, complex system, which consists of multiple, distributed components. Some of these components may be systems; others may be services, installed products, or other managed elements.

The following types of landscapes are defined in the SLD:

·        Administration

A system landscape, which is created for administration purposes, for example, for common monitoring.

·        General

A system landscape, which can contain all types of application systems.

·        NWDI Systems

A system landscape that contains servers of the NWDI. The NWDI consists of a local client – the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and some logical servers for processes like source management, build tasks, transport, and name reservation. All servers work together and require a common user base together with the IDE.

·        Scenario

A system landscape that is created for a specific business scenario. Scenario landscapes are used in the Software Lifecycle Manager of SAP NetWeaver.

·        Transport

A system landscape that is created for transport purposes. For example, all SAP Web AS systems that are connected by an ABAP transport path distributing the ABAP development.

·        Web Service

A system landscape that is created to collect systems offering Web services and their clients. The hierarchy of these landscapes defines the Web service that is most appropriate for a given client.

Use

You can use the landscapes view to perform the following tasks:

●         Create and remove landscapes

●         Add and remove systems to and from landscapes

●         Create and remove hosted systems

●         Add and remove sub-landscapes to and from landscapes