Maintaining Third-Party Products 

Use

The SAP System Landscape Directory is the central information point for your system landscape. Management and business applications access the information stored there to perform tasks in a collaborative computing environment.

Third-party products are often implemented in a system landscape. These third-party products can be standalone applications or additional modules for SAP applications.

To register third-party products in the SLD, you have to enter the product information manually.

Prerequisites

You have the user role LcrAdministrator.

Entering a Product (Version)

Go to the initial screen of the SLD and proceed as follows:

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       1.      In the Software column, choose Third-Party Software.

The browser displays the screen Third-Party Software.

       2.      Choose Define Product.

The browser displays the screen Define Product.

       3.      Enter the vendor name, product name, and the product version.

       4.      Choose Create.

The SLD server creates instances for the classes Product, Product Version, and Software Feature as well as the association instances. The browser displays the screen Define Software Component.

If you do not want to create the software components (immediately), you can stop the process by choosing Cancel. The system then creates only the product.

You can create various versions for a registered third-party product by specifying exactly the same vendor and product name. Assign the version numbers accordingly.

Entering a Component (Version)

Go to the initial screen of the SLD and proceed as follows:

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       1.      In the Software column, choose Third-Party Software.

The browser displays the screen Third-Party Software.

       2.      Choose Define Software Component.

The browser displays the screen Define Software Component.

       3.      In the Product drop-down list, select the product that the defined component belongs to.

       4.      Enter the vendor name, component name, and the component version.

       5.      Choose Create.

The SLD server creates instances for the CIM classes Software Component and Software Component Version, as well as the association instances.

You can create various versions for a registered third-party product by choosing exactly the same product, and specifying exactly the same vendor and component name. Assign the version numbers accordingly.