SAP Landscape Management 3.0, Enterprise Edition

Configuring Provisioning Settings

You use this procedure to specify the general provisioing settings.

Prerequisites

  • When using an ABAP system or LDAP as the backend for user management, use a local user of the SAP NetWeaver Java engine to perform the configuration. Otherwise, the jobs stop working if the user backend is unavailable.

  • You have the authorization to configure engine settings.

    For more information, see Standard Permissions.

Procedure

  1. Choose Start of the navigation pathSetup Next navigation step SettingsEnd of the navigation path.
  2. Choose Expert Mode.
  3. On the Engine tab, choose Edit.
  4. Specify your general provisioning settings.

    Field

    Default Value

    Possible Values

    Description

    Allow disable fencing for instance config

    Checkbox deselected

    Checkbox selected

    Checkbox deselected

    To allow the isolation of SCS, DB, or ERS instances to be disabled in the instance configuration, select this checkbox. Isolating target instances ensures that there is no outgoing communication to the source system or any other system in the related SAP landscape.

    Backup Application Servers during Database Refresh

    Checkbox selected

    Checkbox selected

    Checkbox deselected

    To clone the volumes of the target application servers during a databse refresh, keep the checkbox selected.

    If you do not want to clone the volumes of the target application servers during a databse refresh, deselect the checkbox.

  5. Save your entries.

Results

The following SAP Landscape Management jobs are rescheduled using the current user:

  • LVM_Job_ProcessExecutor

  • LVM_Job_ProcessCleaner

You can review the status of the jobs and the scheduling user in the SAP NetWeaver Administrator tool Java Scheduler.