Role of a System Component Repository
Use
You can assign a role to a System Component Repository (SCR). There are three options for the role of a repository:
If you do not assign roles, you can see much more detailed information in the SCR for its own SAP system than for the remote SAP systems. This general data for remote systems comes as of SAP Web Application Server 6.10 from an automatic search for remote systems when a system is started and contains, for example, data about the release and the database. By assigning roles, you can ensure that the detailed information is also displayed for remote SAP systems in the SCR.
To do this, it is necessary for you to define the repository of the central system as the central repository and to define the repositories of all systems whose information you want to be able to view in the central SCR as subordinate repositories (see also: Creating a Central Repository).
In this way, you can ensure that in the central system you can view not only all repository data for the central system, but also for all other systems with subordinate repositories. This includes data about:
Features
By assigning a role, you can define the SCR of a system (and therefore a system) as the collection point for SCR data of other systems. By assigning a role to the SCRs of various systems, you determine where which systems transfer the detailed information of their SCRs.
An SCR (and therefore a system) can hold only one role; the following rules apply:
Activities
Example