SAP Landscape Management 3.0, Enterprise Edition

Creating Characteristics

Create characteristics to group systems and hosts according to these characteristics and to make mass operations easier to handle.

Prerequisites

You have configured the following:

Procedure

  1. Choose Start of the navigation pathConfiguration Next navigation step CharacteristicsEnd of the navigation path.
  2. Choose Edit.
  3. Choose Add and provide the following information for the new characteristic:
    Option Description
    Characteristic Enter a unique name.
    Description Enter a description of the characteristic, if required.
    Show As Column To add a column for the characteristic to the overview table of the hosts, systems, virtual host, or virtual host provider view, select this checkbox. The name of the characteristic is then displayed in the table header of the respective overview table. To hide the column of the characteristic created from the overview table, you can then deselect the corresponding checkbox in the table settings.
    Cardinality
    • To assign an instance, host, or virtual host to a single characteristic value of the characteristic, choose Single.

    • To assign an instance, host, or virtual host to multiple characteristic values of the characteristic, choose Multiple.

    On the Systems and Hosts screen, the entities are visible under each value assigned, if grouped by the characteristic.
    Hosts To assign hosts to the characteristic, select this checkbox.
    Systems To assign systems to the characteristic, select this checkbox.
    Instances To assign instances to the characteristic, select this checkbox.
    Virtual Host To assign virtual hosts to the characteristic, select this checkbox.
    Virtual Host Providers To assign virtual host providers to the characteristic, select this checkbox.
  4. Provide the following information in the Characteristic Values of Characteristic table for each created characteristic:
    Option Description
    Characteristic Value Enter a unique name.
    Description Enter the description of the characteristic value, if required.
    Cell Color Choose a color for the characteristic value, if required.
  5. Save your entries.