SAP System Landscape Directory in the SAP Exchange Infrastructure 

Purpose

The SAP System Landscape Directory (SLD) is the central information provider in a system landscape.

The SLD contains two types of information:

·        Component information: This is information about all available SAP products and components, including their versions. If there are any third-party products in the system landscape, they are also registered here.

·        Landscape description: This contains all installed systems in a system landscape.

At design time of the integration objects, the component information is extracted from the SLD to define business scenarios.

When a collaborative business process is configured, the landscape description is needed to determine the system information of the business partners involved.

The runtime environment of the SAP Exchange Infrastructure (the Integration Engine), receives the address of the Integration Server of a business system from the SLD.