Landscapes
Definition
A landscape represents a logical, complex unit that consists of multiple, distributed components. Some of these components may be systems; others may be services, installed products, or other managed elements.
SLD offers the following types of landscapes:
● Administration
A system landscape that is created for administration purposes, such as for common monitoring.
· General
A system landscape that 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.
· Scenarios
A system landscape that is created for a specific business scenario. Scenario landscapes are used in the Software Lifecycle Manager of SAP NetWeaver.
· Transports
A system landscape that is created for transport purposes. For example, all SAP ASsystems that are connected by an ABAP transport path distributing the ABAP development.
· Web Services
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.
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