Area

Description

SAP Licenses

This section gives you an overview of the tools that manage your SAP licenses.

Solution Monitoring

The monitoring features in IT landscapes monitor IT components and processes that run across multiple components. The monitoring results are displayed in a central system. Any problems are displayed as alerts. You can use the relevant analysis methods to go to an appropriate transaction or tool to evaluate the problem.

Support Platform

The Support Platform is a proprietary SAP test platform that was created to execute plug-in programs. Small Java programs that are contained in the plug-ins perform multiple analyses of system processes and configurations.

The Support Platform runs on an SAP Web AS and allows you to analyze, correct, and monitor the applications running on that system. You can also use it to check the requirements for applications that you want to install, for example, for the Portal.

Statistics

Statistics give you an overview of system performance and system load.

Application Log

The application log is a tool that collects messages, exceptions, and errors. This information is organized and displayed in a log.

System Management

A wide range of system management functions enable you to control and configure your SAP system.

Network Integration

The SAP Library contains information about the following network topics:

·        SAProuter

You use SAProuter to configure access to your network.

·        SAP Web Dispatcher

You can use the SAP Web Dispatcher as an access point for Web requests. These requests are then distributed (using load balancing) between the individual SAP Web Application Servers of your SAP system, which is behind the firewall.

High Availability

High availability of an SAP system is guaranteed by reducing both unscheduled and scheduled downtime to a minimum.

Software Life Cycle Management

Software Life Cycle Management (SLM) encompasses the administration of SAP products and solutions in real customer-specific system landscapes. You can use the tools and processes in Software Life Cycle Management to implement new functions, to copy or migrate existing systems and to support the creation and distribution of changes in your system landscape. You can also update your system landscape in order to ensure smooth operation and upgrade existing scenarios in your landscape to new releases.

System Landscape Administration with SAP NetWeaver Administrator

SAP NetWeaver Administrator combines the main administration and monitoring tools for both ABAP and JAVA systems in a new, browser-based user interface. The greatest benefits that SAP NetWeaver Administrator provides you with are:

·        You can perform administration, troubleshooting, and problem analysis activities in your entire SAP NetWeaver system landscape without the need to switch between different tools.

·        A central administration tool allows you to monitor the performance of ABAP and Java systems throughout your landscape, to start and stop Java processes, instances and applications, and to check configurations and log files.

·        The user interface adheres to the latest guidelines for interface design, thus allowing simple, rapid and task-oriented navigation. With the use of Web Dynpro, SAP NetWeaver runs in a browser, thus making client-side installation unnecessary.

Solution Manager

The SAP Solution Manager gives you central access to tools, methods, and preconfigured content that you can use while evaluating and implementing your solutions.

When your implementation is running, you can use the SAP Solution Manager to manage and monitor systems and business processes in your solution landscape, and also to set up and operate your own solution support.

Customizing

Customizing settings enable you to adapt the non-company specific and industry-specific functions shipped in an SAP system to the specific business requirements of your enterprise.

Testing

The Test Workbench is a complete environment for all test phases, including test administration and the tests themselves.

Data Archiving

You can use the data archiving functions to archive any completed business transactions that are no longer relevant for your daily operations, and so significantly reduce the load on the database.

SAP NetWeaver™ Problem Analysis Guide (PAG)

Problem analysis scenarios for the various key capabilities in SAP NetWeaver.