SAP Landscape Management 3.0, Enterprise Edition

Managing System Landscapes

You manage the instances and hosts of an adaptive computing landscape using SAP Landscape Management.

  • You are logged on to SAP Landscape Management as an administrator.

    URL: http://<host>:5<instance number>00/lama; where <host> and <port> are the values of the SAP NetWeaver Application Server for Java of the central monitoring system (CEN).

  • You are assigned a role that includes permissions to manage instances and hosts in the landscape.

    For more information, see Security Considerations.

  • You have configured the initial entities in the landscape.

    For more information, Initial Entities Configuration.

You can manage the landscape using one of the following:
Feature Overview

Description

Related Information

Find information about the system you are logged on.

System Information

Search for various entity properties available in your landscape.

Searches

Display information about managed systems and other elements on a single screen.

Dashboards

View landscape entities and their relationship in a graphical form.

Visualizing the System Landscape

Run reports on demand.

Reporting

Operate the instances and systems in the system landscape to optimize the use of computing resources.

For example:
  • Perform start, stop, or relocate operations.

  • Perform remote function call operations such as creating system messages, managing logon groups, or getting system information.

  • Perform a rolling kernel switch or install the license for ABAP post-copy automation.
  • Perform system replication operations on SAP HANA instances.

  • Perform SAP HANA processes such as takeover, near zero Downtime Maintenance, or failback.

Operations

Monitor the hosts from a central point.

Managing Hosts in the Landscape

Export instance, host, virtual host, or storage properties to an XML file.

Exporting Entity Properties

Manage system snapshots for system provisioning operations.

Managing System Snapshots

Clone, copy, refresh, or rename systems.

Provisioning Systems

Destroy a system to delete storage volumes, virtual hosts, host names, and users irrevocably.

Destroying Systems

Display the log of all tasks involved in cloning, copying, refreshing, or renaming your system.

Monitoring a System Clone, Copy, Refresh, or Rename

Install or uninstall application servers.

Provisioning Application Servers

Install or uninstall Diagnostics Agents.

Provisioning Diagnostics Agents

Extend the existing SAP Landscape Management operations and functions to manage your own on-premise SAP system landscape.

Automation Studio

Create, edit, and execute operation templates and custom processes.

Custom Processes

Schedule operations such as starting, stopping, or relocating an instance on a host in the landscape

Schedules

Observe the activities executed for every operation in the activities viewer and manage the activities as and when required.

Managing Activities

View information about storage entities such as storage managers, storage systems, volume groups, storage pools, storage volumes, and logical volumes.

Viewing Storage Information

View logs to detect problems in the operations performed.

Working with Logs

Download a support information ZIP file to attach it to a customer incident.

Downloading Support Information

Display metrics for specific entities for a specific time period.

Performance Monitoring